{"id":30166,"date":"2026-04-24T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30166"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:29:10","slug":"namaste-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/namaste-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMASTE Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>NAMASTE Scheme Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment highlighted the NAMASTE Scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About NAMASTE Scheme<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0 ensures the safety, dignity and <\/span><b>social security of sanitation workers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while accelerating the transition towards mechanised sanitation across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is jointly implemented by the <\/span><b>Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to <\/span><b>eliminate hazardous manual cleaning of sewers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and septic tanks by promoting mechanised cleaning practices, skill development and comprehensive welfare measures for sanitation workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Implementing agency:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is implemented by the <\/span><b>National Safai Karmacharis Finance Development Corporation (NSKFDC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Duration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It would be implemented for three years from <\/span><b>FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>The scheme targets<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zero fatalities in sanitation work,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eliminates direct contact with human faecal matter,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensures all cleaning is done with safety devices by skilled workers,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthens Emergency Response Sanitation Units (ERSUs), and empowers workers through Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286362&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMASTE Scheme ensures the safety, dignity and social security of sanitation workers while accelerating the transition towards mechanised sanitation across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":99986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100018,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions\/100018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}