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11/12/22 12:11 PM IST

TN CM Stalin launches scheme to uplift sanitation staff

In News
  • The Sanitation Workers’ Development Scheme was launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin to ensure the welfare of conservancy workers in the southern state.
About the Scheme
  • A mobile application was launched for the identification and census collection of sanitation workers.
  • A survey will be conducted to identify sanitation workers and the collected data will be uploaded into the application.
  • The first phase of this scheme will be implemented in five urban local bodies in the state. It will later be expanded to other local bodies.
  • The scheme would benefit 18,859 permanent sanitation workers and 34,442 temporary contract employees working in urban local bodies.
  • It will also cover informal workers involved in conservancy operations in the private sector.
  • The local bodies will be implementing this scheme with the assistance from Ahmedabad-based Urban Management Centre.
Significance
  • The 2003 Supreme Court Judgement mandated the local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning and the government enacted Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 to ban manual scavenging.
Source- The Hindu

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