Sulabh International unveiled India’s first sewer cleaning machine

Sulabh International unveiled India’s first sewer cleaning machine to eradicate unsafe manual scavenging: Details, Features, Aim, Significance, Highlights

India-based largest social service organization, Sulabh International has unveiled India’s first-of-a-kind sewer cleaning machine to reduce sewer deaths and to eradicate the unsafe practice of manual scavenging.

This sewer cleaning machine was unveiled on occasion of World Toilet Day 2018 on 19 November by mayors of all three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCD) in the presence founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak.

The sewer cleaning-machine will conduct with 99% of manual scavenging in India With help of it manual, cleaner (safai karamchari) does not have to enter sewers. But if a need arises and a person has to go, then this machine is fully equipped with gas checking machine, protective gears and dress to protect workers from harmful gases.

The sewer cleaning-machine is electro-hydraulically operated, with personal protective devices and quick-view pipe inspection camera which extends up to 20 feet.

It is equipped with quick-view pipe view camera, designed to felicitate inspection of sewer, manholes, tunnels, tanks, mainline and other lateral pipeline facilities with outstanding zoom function (industrial HD camera), scalable carbon fiber rods and sunlight presentable controller.

The new machine which costs Rs. 43 lakh is ideal for periodic mechanical desilting of manholes and to flush out sewer lines using powerful jetting pump capable of producing 150 bar operating pressure and flow of 150 liters per minute. It is also capable of de-choking sewer lines using specially designed flexible steel rods.

This sewer cleaning machine will ensure that no safai karamchari dies inside the sewer and will bring huge relief to manual scavengers.

Sulabh International is a social service organization that works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education.

Founded: 1970

Founder: Bindeshwar Pathak

Type: NGO