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The first batch of NAMASTE occupational safety training began for sanitation workers of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation in West Bengal.
The programme runs five days and 30 hours, with a maximum of 45 workers per batch and technical support from CSIR-CMERI.
West Bengal has profiled 7,630 sewer and septic tank workers and held awareness workshops across 124 municipalities and three cantonment boards.
Participants with at least 70% attendance receive a certificate and a stipend of Rs 1,000.
Eliminate hazardous manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks and move sanitation work to trained, mechanised and certified practice.
Key: Launched July 2023 jointly by MoSJE and MoHUA as a Central Sector Scheme, implemented by NSKFDC across all 4,800-plus urban local bodies. It subsumed components of the earlier Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers, including health insurance under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, skill training and capital subsidy.
Turn safai karamcharis and identified manual scavengers into sanitation entrepreneurs.
Key: Launched by NSKFDC on 2 October 2014, it offers concessional loans at about 4% a year for community toilet projects and sanitation-related vehicles such as garbage collection trucks.
The statute that bans manual scavenging, recognising it as a dehumanising practice, and provides for the rehabilitation of those engaged in it. NAMASTE is the administrative machinery through which that prohibition is given effect in sewer and septic-tank work.
Nodal ministry for NAMASTE, jointly with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Implementing agency for NAMASTE; a fully government-owned not-for-profit company under MoSJE, working for the socio-economic upliftment of safai karamcharis, waste pickers and manual scavengers.
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur — provides the technical training and developed the Swachh Bharat Test Bed and Safaimitra training facility used here.
GS Paper 2 > Social Justice > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
General Awareness > Government Schemes
The term used for sanitation workers engaged in sewer and septic tank cleaning under these schemes.
Cleaning a sewer or septic tank without the prescribed protective gear and safety devices — the practice the 2013 Act and NAMASTE are designed to end.
The survey step that identifies and registers sewer and septic tank workers so entitlements such as PPE kits and training can reach them.