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Clean-up order [1]

HUNDREDS of contract workers engaged by local bodies and water supply and sewerage boards in major cities and towns to clean underground sewers virtually walk into death traps. A large number of them die instantaneously after inhaling noxious fumes in the sewers. Others die a slow death from respiratory and neurological ailments.

Publication Date: 
16/01/2009
Frontline (Chennai) [2]
Tags:
Sewers [3], Public Interest Litigation (PIL) [4], Scavengers [5], Workers [6], High Court [7], Tamil Nadu [8], Chennai (T) [9]
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