Critical Assessment of Welfare Programmes For Protecting Sanitation Workers In India
May 2021
When the complete chain of waste management is looked at, sanitation workers play an important role in achieving the goal of sustainable sanitation. Sanitation workers gather, isolate, treat, and discard waste and come in close contact with different types and categories of waste. These activities of sanitation workers expose them to various occupational and health hazards. Apart from various judicial interventions Government of India has implemented many national welfare programs through NCSK and NSKFDC. In current pandemic situation there is increasing focus on sanitation workers, at country level as well as different states of India are coming up with state level schemes and welfare programmes for sanitation workers. Elements that are highlighted in these various welfare programs are identified and a lens of assessment is prepared for conducting critical review of these welfare programs.
