The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 · IV — IDENTIFICATION OF MANUAL SCAVENGERS IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS AND THEIR REHABILITATION

Section 16. Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

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.

Source: India Code