National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Reviews Sanitation and Welfare Facilities

Prelims-testable facts

• 01The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) was constituted on 12th August, 1994 as a statutory body by an Act of Parliament.
• 02The NCSK is responsible for improving the welfare and working conditions of sanitation workers in India.
• 03Manual scavenging has been prohibited under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
• 04The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is responsible for overseeing the activities of the NCSK.
• 05The NDMC has been directed to strengthen worker welfare, speed up mechanisation, and resolve long-pending service issues.
• 06Immediate instructions were issued to open the Temporary Muster Roll (TMR) Safai Karamchari recruitment process under the Public Health Department of New Delhi Municipal Corporation.

Trap alerts

• Most people think the NCSK is a non-statutory body, but actually it was constituted as a statutory body by an Act of Parliament.
• Most people think manual scavenging has been completely eliminated in India, but actually the NCSK aims to eliminate any hazard to human health through mechanisation.