In a bid to make heads of corporations and municipalities squarely responsible for deaths due to manual scavenging, the Madras HC has directed them to file a written undertaking to the effect that no manual scavenging work would be permitted to be undertaken within their jurisdiction. In a bid to make heads of corporations and municipalities squarely responsible for deaths due to manual scavenging, the Madras HC has directed them to file a written undertaking to the effect that no manual scavenging work would be permitted to be undertaken within their jurisdiction.