The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act

Vigilance Committees

Functions of Vigilance Committee

State Monitoring Committee

Functions of the State Monitoring Committee

Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government

Central Monitoring Committee

Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee

Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis

Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation  of this Act


VIGILANCE COMMITTEES


The functions of Vigilance Committee shall be—

(a) to advise the District Magistrate or, as the case may be, the Sub-DivisionalMagistrate, on the
action which needs to be taken, to ensure that the provisions of thisAct or of any rule made thereunder
are properly implemented;

(b) to oversee the economic and social rehabilitation of manual scavengers;

(c) to co-ordinate the functions of all concerned agencies with a view to channelise adequate
credit for the rehabilitation of manual scavengers;

(d) to monitor the registration of offences under this Act and their investigationand prosecution

LAWGIST

# 25 Functions of Vigilance Committee