• ●NAMASTE Cards were issued to waste pickers of the MCD Najafgarh Zone at the MCD Community Hall, Matiala, Delhi; over 300 waste pickers attended and Ayushman Cards were distributed alongside.
• ●NAMASTE = National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem, a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
• ●Launched in 2023 and run in convergence with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; waste pickers were added as a target group in June 2024.
• ●Target groups: sewer and septic tank workers plus waste pickers, with the stated aim of eliminating hazardous manual cleaning practices nationwide.
• ●Scheme focus areas: occupational safety, formal recognition of workers, access to healthcare and social security, skill development, and mechanisation of hazardous sanitation work.
• ●The NAMASTE Card is the formal recognition document identifying a worker under the scheme and routing them to its safety, skilling and welfare benefits.
• ●NSKFDC — the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation, set up in January 1997 under the same ministry — is the scheme's nodal implementing agency.
• ●Governing law: the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, which bans manual scavenging and provides for rehabilitation; NAMASTE is the administrative machinery giving it effect.

Waste pickers were formally added as a target group under which central sector scheme, whose identity cards were distributed in Delhi's Najafgarh Zone?