Two Sanitation Workers Die Cleaning Septic Tank in Tamil Nadu; DASAM Demands Accountability
Two sanitation workers died while cleaning a septic tank in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy district, prompting the Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM) to demand accountability, compensation, and enforcement of hazardous manual scavenging. M. Ganesh, 25, and Mukesh Kumar, 26, collapsed after inhaling toxic fumes; DASAM recorded seventy‑six similar deaths in eight months and urged investigations, Rs 30 lakh compensation, and mechanized cleaning.
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