A parliamentary standing committee on social justice and empowerment has told the Centre that sanitation workers must get safety kits and health benefits in time under the national scheme designed for them, and asked for completion of profiling of sanitation workers in a time-bound manner.
It has also asked the Centre to review the implementation of the scheme for residential education of Scheduled Caste (SC) students, to identify reasons for shortfall in selection of requisite number of beneficiaries and underutilisation of funds.
The panel noted that 73,289 SSWs (sewer and septic tank workers) were profiled and 69,231 of them were validated; 45,871 PPE kits were given for SSWs and 16,962 Ayushman cards were made. Despite these efforts, the panel said, there is still a “significant gap” in profiling and validation of SSWs, distribution of PPE kits, safety devices and Ayushman cards.
“The committee, therefore, reiterates that the profiling and validation of SSWs should be completed in a time-bound manner and also ensure that the safety kits, PPE kits and Ayushman cards are distributed to all eligible SSWs without any delay,” the panel said.
The panel’s recommendations were made in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
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