India, Sept. 3 -- The Gujarat High Court has asked the state Government to fix the responsibility of officials, instead of putting entire blame on contractors, in case of death of sanitation workers while cleaning sewers and septic tanks.
Citing Government's practice of 'blacklisting' a contractor after each incident involving death of sanitation workers, the court on Monday noted the new contractor would do the same because there is no deterrence. Advocate General Kamal Trivedi agreed with the HC's remarks and assured the state Government would try to see how accountability of officials can be fixed in such cases.
A bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice DN Ray made the remarks while hearing a 2016 Public Interest Litigation (...