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Better days ahead for manual scavengers

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit along with Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar launched a self-employment scheme for rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their dependents at Dilshad Garden in East Delhi on Thursday. Asserting that her government was commitment to rehabilitation of all manual scavengers and their dependents by March 2009, Ms. Dikshit said the new scheme would put an end to the menace of scavenging.