section 6
Power of State Government to make schemes.
The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993Labour199324 sections5 chapters
Chapter III IMPLEMENTING AUTHORITIES AND SCHEMES
Statutory text
- (1) The State Government may, by notification, make one or more schemes for regulating conversion of dry latrines into, or construction and maintenance of, water-seal latrines, rehabilitation of the persons who were engaged in or employed for as manual scavengers in any area in respect of which a notification under sub-section (1) of section 3 has been issued in gainful employment and administration of such schemes and different schemes may be made in relation to different areas and for different purposes of this Act: Provided that no such scheme as involving financial assistance from the HUDCO shall be made without consulting it.
- (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such schemes may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--
- (a) time-bound phased programme for the conversion of dry latrines into water-seal latrines;
- (b) provision of technical or financial assistance for new or alternate low cost sanitation to local bodies or other agencies;
- (c) construction and maintenance of community latrines and regulation of their use on pay and use basis;
- (d) construction and maintenance of shared latrines in slum areas or for the benefit of socially and economically backward classes of citizens;
- (e) registration of manual scavengers and their rehabilitation;
- (f) specification and standards of water-seal latrines;
- (g) procedure for conversion of dry latrines into water-seal latrines;
- (h) licensing for collection of fees in respect of community latrines or shared latrines.
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