16. Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.—Any person included in the final list of manual scavengers, published in pursuance of section 14 or added thereto in pursuance of sub-section (2) of section 15 shall be rehabilitated, mutatis mutandis, in the manner laid down for urban manual scavengers in section 13. 9 CHAPTER V IMPLEMENTING AUTHORITIES
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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Act to have overriding effect.Section 4 · Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines.Section 5 · Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger.Section 6 · Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.Section 7 · Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.Section 8 · Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 24 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.