60 districts miss August-end timeline to declare themselves ‘manual scavenging free’

Around 60 districts in India have failed to declare themselves 'manual scavenging free' by the end of August, missing the government's deadline. The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Rehabilitation Act, 2013 bans manual cleaning of human excreta.

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