Advocacy Plan on Eradication of Manual Scavenging Practice

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Advocacy Plan on Eradication of Manual
Scavenging Practice

• Sameer Taware
• Manuski Centre, Pune

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Preface of the constitution says

• It is committed for providing social, economic
  and political justice, the freedom to express
  ones views, the rights to dignity and equal
  opportunities to all citizens of India.

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Facts are,

• In India,
• every day three Dalits are killed,
• four dalit houses are burnt and
• three dalit women are raped
• 40 million are bonded labor (15 Million are
  children )
• 2.3 million are Manual Scavengers in India.

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• All Human beings are made of the same earth and
  they have the right to demand good behavior.
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter
  of choice, It is not a thing to be waited, it is
  thing to be achieved
• Bryan W.J.

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Manual Scavenging Practice

• It is clear that impure work was done by the
  slaves and that the impure work included
  scavenging.
• - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
• The issue is not Employment But abolition of
  slavery

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what is M. S. Practice ?

• It is not merely removing night soil, fletching
  the human feces But it is a
• Custom
• Compulsion
• Hereditary
• Forced labor
• Based on social origin ( Caste System)

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Initiative taken by NGOs

• Organisation based in Pune
• Manuski working on Human Rights issues
• Working on the principles
• Transforming self and world
• Transcending caste Barriers

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Major Programmes

• Dalit Atrocity and advocacy
• Dalit women Leadership
• Campaign for Eradiation of Manual
  Scavenging Practice
• Jati Todo Samaj Jodo
• (Breaking caste and building communities)

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Campaign for Eradiation of Manual Scavenging
Practice in MH

• Objectives
• Elimination of Manual Scavenging Practice
• Enriching the Ambedkarite perspectives
• Breaking the caste Prejudices

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Approach

Notional change
Structural change
Cultural hegemony
Caste Structure
Govt. Policies
Sufferers Civil society
Government Trade Unions
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Stakeholders
Government organization
NGOs and CBOs
Manual scavenging practice
Trade Unions
Sufferers
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Government

• Denial the facts
• Non co-operation
• No implementation of Legislative provisions
• Ineffective to work as welfare state

• Creating evidences
• Involvement and participation
• Building Pressure group
• Policy advocacy
• ( lobbying with MLAs and MPs)

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NGOS and CBOs

• Existing Identity
• Integrated national Advocacy Plan
• Consciousness about issue
• Lack of Network for common action

• Forum of various NGOs, CBOs
• to address problem
• Common Plan of action

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Trade Unions

• No awareness of the issue
• Very less understanding about the
• legal provisions to the safai karmchari unions
• lacking in Perspective and approach

• Perspective and Vision building
• Strengthening Unions
• Creating a platform
• Direction form ILO

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Sufferers

• Cultural hegemony
• Caste notion
• Insecurity

• Awareness and sensitization campaign
• Jati todo samaj jodo programme
• Rehabilitation measures
• Community participation and leadership

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Integrated National Advocacy Plan

• States municipal employees still perform manual
  scavenging
• Improving and developing New Rehabilitation
  Policy which should include social, Political and
  Economical rehabilitation
• Initiating Network and collaboration with various
  NGOs CBOs and trade Union to address issues of
  Manual Scavenging commonly

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• State Sanitation Councils need to established at
  state level.

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• - Dr. BhimRao Ambedkar

Our is a battle not for wealth or power. It is a
battle for freedom. It is the battle of
reclamation of Human Personality