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Under NAMASTE, 90,942 sewer and septic tank workers have been profiled (89,248 validated), 87,037 given PPE kits and 76,247 covered by health insurance.
An upfront capital subsidy of Rs 34.17 crore has gone to 983 sanitation workers for 364 vehicles; 753 safety devices were sent to Emergency Response Sanitation Units.
Waste pickers were added to the scheme in June 2024: 3,78,547 profiled, 1,31,864 given PPE kits.
GS Paper 2 > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
'Rashtriya Garima Abhiyaan' is a national campaign to
Answer: eradicate the practice of manual scavenging and rehabilitate the manual scavengers
National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem - MoSJE-MoHUA scheme (2023) for sewer/septic workers, extended to waste pickers in 2024.
Emergency Response Sanitation Unit - set up in larger municipal corporations and districts to handle hazardous cleaning with safety gear.