NAMASTE (NATIONAL ACTION FOR MECHANISED SANITATION ECOSYSTEM) PORTAL

Objective:

To ensure safety and dignity of sanitation workers by making sanitation work safer across the urban India.

Features:

    • Its earlier name was Self-Employment scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers, implemented since 2007.
    • It is a central sector scheme.
    • It is a joint effort of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of housing and urban affairs and Department of drinking water and sanitation.
    • Time period: 2023-24 to 2025-26.
    • The scheme will be implemented in all ULBs including para-statal bodies and cantonment boards of India.
    • Urban Local Bodies (ULB) will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on real time basis through mobile app and dedicated MIS platform.

Intended Outcomes:

    • Zero fatalities in sanitation work.
    • Formalized skilled workers to perform all work.
    • No direct contact with human faecal matter.
    • Empowerment of sanitation workers through SHGs.
    • Sewer and Septic tank sanitation workers (SSWs) to be provided capital subsidy to purchase equipments.
    • Extending health insurance benefits for sanitation workers.
    • Increasing awareness
    • Occupational development by skill training
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