However, on the pretext of verifying these names, government officials allegedly harassed and intimidated manual scavengers. It identified 3,032 manual scavengers and submitted the data to the government. Again.Īfter the 2015 survey, the SKA surveyed eight districts in the state to replicate Tamil Nadu’s numbers. “My immediate and extended families are also in the occupation, yet none of them were ever surveyed.”Īlso read: After 25 Years of Broken Promises, India is Counting its Manual Scavengers. “I belong to the Arunthathiyar caste, like many manual scavengers,” he elaborated. Samuel also says that the state never conducted a proper survey in the first place. The new number was 462 manual scavengers, as of 2015.Īccording to every activist we spoke to, this number is not even a tenth of the actual number of manual scavengers in the state. However, after the MS Act took effect in 2013, the state conducted a census-like survey to identify manual scavengers. Like many others, he remains unaware of the rehabilitation package as described under the Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 (MS Act).Īccording to the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011, Tamil Nadu had only 334 manual scavengers. Selvaraj has been working as a manual scavenger for more than 15 years. Selvaraj’s story is symptomatic of the failures of the Tamil Nadu government’s programme for identifying and rehabilitating manual scavengers. Samuel also told him about an ongoing survey to identify manual scavengers being conducted by the National Safai Karamchari Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC), a wholly government owned body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Samuel, the Tamil Nadu convenor of the Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA), an organisation that works to eradicate manual scavenging. Selvaraj was told about the compensation to which he was entitled by V.
“First they fell unconscious, and then they were electrocuted,” he says. He looked apologetic, his head low and hidden behind a cap, when asked if he also cleaned septic tanks.įollowing the death of his family members, Selvaraj has been anxious whenever he has had to enter a manhole. The 33-year-old, a corporation employee who cleans open drains, had come with his workmates to the Chennai Corporation Zone 1 office on April 7 to identify themselves as manual scavengers. Selvaraj* discovered that his family was entitled to a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the deaths of his father-in-law and wife’s cousin when they were cleaning manholes in 2003. Ohmart was cast by Cromwell, who had seen her in similar films.Chennai: It was by accident that K. The film is credited as "introducing" Vic Diaz, though he had previously appeared in several Philippine films. Making their debuts in the film were Jerusalem born dancer Tamar Benamy (born Tamar Ben-Ami MaAugust 31, 1997) and RTHK broadcaster John Wallace, who also appeared in Ferry to Hong Kong. The film was director John Cromwell's penultimate feature film. Allison is pursued by both the Royal Hong Kong Police and a mystery man named O'Hara, who inform him that his wife is now a cocaine addict and involved in smuggling stolen bonds embezzled by a missing former Nationalist Chinese general. Now running a smuggling operation in Hong Kong, he sights his wife Marian boarding a ferry to Macau.
The Scavengers was re-released in 1963 as City of Sin by Lynn's new company, Hemisphere Pictures.įormer Korean War pilot Stuart Allison has been searching the Orient for his wife who deserted him six years ago. with Terror Is a Man by Hal Roach's Valiant Pictures. It was released in December 1959 as a double feature in the U.S. Lynn and Filipino director Eddie Romero (who also wrote the screenplay). Shot on location in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, it was produced by former US Navy fighter pilot Kane W. The Scavengers is a 1959 Filipino crime film that was directed by John Cromwell, and starred Vince Edwards and Carol Ohmart.
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