Why manual scavenging prohibited by our constitution ?
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Discussions about water, sanitation, education, health, nutrition and housing programmes are oftenfocused on the quality of welfare policy, and on budgets and implementation. And rightly so, because this is the essential work of any government. The conceptual idea of social and economic rights, however, provides another way to look at the basic human conditions necessary to live a life of freedom and dignity.
Legal systems of democratic societies tend to endorse the idea that civil and political freedoms are necessarily accompanied by some notion of social and economic rights. Starting from the 1980s, in judgements, Indian courts expanded the ‘right to life’ guaranteed in Article 21 of the Constitution into a right to life with dignity, and read several social and economic rights as underlying determinants of the right to life with dignity.