Self Employment Scheme For Rehabilitation Of Manual Scavengers

The objective of SRMS is to provide assistance to the identified manual scavengers and their dependents for their rehabilitation in alternative occupations.

1. Aadhaar card
2. Ration card
3. Residence proof
4. ID card
5. Passport size photograph
6. Mobile number
7. Bank details

Manual Scavengers identified during the survey conducted by State Governments & allotted MS-ID/Receipt No. and their dependents.

Sanitation Workers and their dependents are eligible only for assistance for sanitation-related self-employment projects. Sanitation worker has to produce an occupation certificate from a designated authority.

Onetime cash assistance of Rs.40000/- to one identified manual scavenger per family.

Skill Development Training up to two years with stipend of Rs.3000/- per month to the manual scavenger/dependent who opts for such training.

Help to take up own Self Employment Projects.

The maximum repayment period, including a moratorium period of upto 6 months, is 5 years for projects upto Rs. 5.00 lakh and upto seven years for projects above Rs. 5 lakhs.

Manual Scavenger and Manual Scavenging: "manual scavenger" means a person engaged or employed, at the commencement of this Act or at any time thereafter, by an individual or a local authority or an agency or a contractor, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which the human excreta from the insanitary latrines is disposed of, or on railway track or in such other spaces or premises, as the Central Government or a State Government may notify, before the excreta fully decomposes and the expression "manual scavenging" shall be construed accordingly.

Parliament enacted the "Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013"(MS Act, 2013), prohibiting insanitary latrines, manual scavenging and hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks. This Act came into force w.e.f 06.12.2013. The Act also specified the rehabilitation benefits to be provided to the persons included in the list of identified manual scavengers and their dependents.

Hazardous Cleaning of Sewer/ Septic Tank: hazardous cleaning" by an employee, in relation to a sewer or septic tank, means its manual cleaning by such employee without the employer fulfilling his obligations to provide protective gear (as defined in MS Rule, 2013) and other cleaning devices and ensuring observance of safety precautions, as may be prescribed or provided in any other law, for the time being in force or rules made thereunder;

All manual scavengers who are willing and their dependents who are above 18 years of age are eligible for skill training and loan.

"Sanitation Worker" means a person, engaged in or employed for any sanitation work and includes waste pickers and also those persons who were engaged in hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tank, but excludes domestic workers.

Local Revenue Officer/Local Municipal Officer/Cantonment Executive Officer/ Railway Officer, Head of the Govt. Departments (i.e. Schools, Colleges, Forest, Health, Education, Animal Husbandry) having rank not less than Gazetted Officer, Elected Members of Municipal Body, Pradhan of Gram Panchayats and Regional Managers of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)/Public Sector Banks (PSBs).