New Delhi, June 6 -- The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Friday unveiled new guidelines seeking to eliminate unsafe sanitary practices and simultaneously ensure that all cleaning services are carried out with the help of mechanised equipment, reducing the risk to sanitation workers and improving service delivery for citizens.
The framework is aimed at guiding urban local bodies (ULBs) in engaging private sanitation service operators (PSSOs) for the mechanised cleaning of sewers and septic tanks given that such activities often involve hazardous manual cleaning, leading to serious health risks and fatalities among sanitation workers..
The guidelines are also designed to check manual scavenging and ensure compl...