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NAMASTE Scheme

NAMASTE Scheme – to eradicate unsafe sewer and septic tank cleaning practices.

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The National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE) scheme has been formulated by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. 

It aims to achieve outcomes like zero fatalities in sanitation work in India; no sanitation worker comes in direct contact with human faecal matter and all sewer and septic tank sanitation workers have access to alternate livelihoods.

The process of extending the Scheme to all the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) of the country has been initiated.

The main features of the scheme to be implemented in all ULBs are:-

Identification – of sewage and septic tank workers (SSW).

Occupational Training and distribution of PPE Kits to SSWs.

Assistance for Safety Devices to Sanitation Response Units (SRUs).

Extending Health Insurance Scheme Benefits to identified SSWs and their families under the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).

Livelihood Assistance :

The Action Plan will promote mechanisation and enterprise development by providing funding support and subsidy (capital +interest) to the sanitation workers, to procure sanitation-related equipment.

Massive campaigns would be undertaken jointly by the ULBs & NSKFDC (National Safai Karamchari Finance Development Corporation) to spread awareness about the interventions of NAMASTE.



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