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The Orissa High Court has strongly criticised the continued practice of manual drain cleaning in Cuttack, directing the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) to immediately shift to mechanised methods and submit a comprehensive action plan by July 31.
The court's intervention follows disturbing reports and social media outcry over the 'inhumane' working conditions faced by sanitation workers in the city, which was also reported by OTV earlier this month.
A division bench comprising Justices SK Sahoo and V Narasingh, while hearing a batch of PILs on civic infrastructure in Cuttack, expressed concern over the use of labourers, shock...