Appoint Two Women Social Workers In State Monitoring Committee Under Anti-Manual Scavenging Law: Gauhati High Court To Assam Govt

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday directed Assam government to include two women social workers in the State Monitoring Committee constituted under Section 26 of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. Section 26(1)(i) of the 2013 Act mandates that two of the four social workers in the committee must be women. However, state government...