National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK), National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC)

National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK)

• NCSK is statutory body established under National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993
• It was established in 1994 to deal with the grievances of persons engaged in manual scavenging.
• It aims to promote and safeguard interests and rights of Safai Karamcharis and Manual Sacavengers and works for welfare of both.
• It is mandated to work towards elimination of inequalities in status facilities and opportunities for Safai Karamcharis.
• It has important role to ensure rehabilitation of all identified manual scavengers on time-bound basis. It is mandate is to study, evaluate and monitor implementation of various schemes for Safai Karamcharis as autonomous organisation.
• Under Section 31 of Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013, NCSK perform flowing functions

1. To monitor the implementation of the Act.
2. To enquire into complaints regarding contravention of the provisions of the Act, and to convey its findings to the concerned authorities with recommendations requiring further action.
3. To advise the Central and the State Governments for effective implementation of the provisions of the Act.
4. To take suo motu notice of matter relating to non-implementation of the Act.

National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC)

• National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) which is a government undertaking under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, had issued an advisory to all municipalities and panchayats for ensuring safety of sanitation workers and waste collectors.
• Established in 1997, NSKFDC works as an apex organisation for the all-around socio-economic upliftment of the Safai Karamcharis, Scavengers and their dependents all over India, through various loan and non-loan based schemes.
• The scheme promotes economic development activities of the safai karamcharis.
• The scheme also helps safai karamcharis in income generating schemes by way of loans, subsidies, advances, or grants.
• The scheme extends loans to students from the community for pursuing professional or technical education.
• It also engages in promoting training, quality control, technology up-gradation, and common facility centres for carrying out sanitation works.
• It helps in upskilling of personnel from the community in technical and entrepreneurial skills.
• The scheme also assists self-employed members of the community in procuring raw materials or other outputs or in marketing finished goods and services in units set up by them.