New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- The Delhi High Court has recently directed the Delhi Government to make efforts to pay an additional Rs. 20 Lakh compensation to the families of sanitation workers who died due to manual scavenging.

The high court passed the order in terms of the Supreme Court order passed last year.

The families had been granted Rs. 10 lakh in compensation by the authorities.

Justice Subramonium Prasad said, " This Court expects that the State will endeavour to pay the balance of Rs. 20 lakh to all similarly placed persons instead of forcing the family members of persons who have lost their lives in manual scavenging to

approach this Court by filing writ petitions."

"It is well settled that when a person approaches a court and g...