MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday ordered notices to the Central and State Governments on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking a direction to them to constitute national and State-level monitoring committees and district-level vigilance committees as contemplated under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
A Division Bench of Justices A. Selvam and P. Kalaiyarasan sought the response of the officials authorities on the PIL petition preferred by A. Nagarajan, general secretary of Aadi Tamilar Peravai. The petitioner claimed that the committees were yet to be constituted despite the 2013 legislation containing specific provisions for their constitution in order to end the despicable practice of employing people to clean human waste.
