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13/08/22 05:05 AM IST

NAMASTE Scheme

In News 
  • The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJ&E) is now preparing to undertake a nationwide survey to enumerate all people engaged in hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks, an activity that has led to at least 351 deaths since 2017. 
NAMASTE Scheme 
  • Ministry officials said that the enumeration exercise, soon to be conducted across 500 AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) cities, is part of the Union government’s National Action Plan for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE)
  • which will streamline the process of rehabilitating sanitation workers and eventually merge with and replace the Self-Employment Scheme for the Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS), which was started in 2007.
  • The idea is to also link these sanitation workers to the Swachhta Udyami Yojana, through which the workers will be able to own sanitation machines themselves and the government will ensure that at the municipality level, the work keeps coming in,” said a senior government official.
  • Manual scavenging is a term used mostly for “manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or an open drain or sewer or a septic tank or a pit”.
Objectives 
  • It is a joint venture between-
  • The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
  • The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
  • The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
  • Zero fatalities in sanitation work in India.
  • No sanitation workers come in direct contact with human faecal matter.
  • All Sewer and Septic tank sanitation workers have access to alternative livelihoods.
Source- PIB 

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