The proposed law makes it mandatory that every unsanitary latrine will have to be demolished or converted into sanitary latrines within nine months of the notification of the law. It prohibits any agency or individual from employing manual scavengers and those already in this kind of job — directly or indirectly — will have to be discharged irrespective of any contract, agreement, custom or traditional commitments. The State government will give assistance for conversion of unsanitary latrines into sanitary ones to occupiers of a premise which has more than one owner, but non-receipt of financial assistance will not be a valid reason for continued maintenance or use of an unsanitary latrine, beyond the period of nine months.