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Manual Scavenging Survey
October 5 , 2024
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- 91.9% of the 38,000 workers profiled so far belong to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), or other backward class (OBC) communities.
- Of the profiled workers, 68.9% were SC, 14.7% were OBC, 8.3% were ST, and 8% were from the general category.
- Between 2019 and 2023, at least 377 people across the country have died from hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
- The profiling of sewer and septic tank workers (SSWs) is being carried out by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment as part of its NAMASTE programme.
- This scheme aims to mechanise all sewer work and prevent deaths due to hazardous cleaning work.
- In 2023-24, this scheme was brought in to replace the Self-Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS).
- Twelve States and UTs have completed the profiling process, while the exercise is still underway in 17 States.
- Tamil Nadu and Odisha are running their own programmes for SSWs, and are not reporting data to the Centre under this programme.
- Of the identified manual scavengers of 43,797, 97.2% of them were from the SC communities.
- The share of STs, OBCs, and others were each around 1%.
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