Deputy Chief Minister Shri Arun Saw distributed PPE kits to sanitation workers
Raipur 13 December 2024
Deputy Chief Minister and Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Arun Saw today provided PPE kits to 38 employees cleaning sewers and septic tanks under the Namaste (National Action for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem) scheme. Addressing the PPE kit distribution program organized at his residential office in Raipur, he said that no work is small or big. Work done with full attention and seriousness makes a person great. He said that when Shri Narendra Modi, the son of a poor mother, became the Prime Minister of the country, such schemes came to fruition which no one had imagined in 70 years. The Modi government in the country and the Vishnu Dev government in Chhattisgarh are working for the welfare of the poor. Shri Saw said that the safety of the sewer and septic tank cleaning workers working in the interest of the society and the country and the welfare of their families is the responsibility of the government. The Chhattisgarh government is fulfilling the responsibility of the education of the children of the cleaning workers, the safety and health of the family.
Deputy Chief Minister Shri Saw told all the sewer and septic tank cleaning workers to be aware of their self-protection, never be negligent in this. Make full use of the PPE kit provided by the government for your own safety during work. He expressed hope that the use of PPE kit will create a safe working environment for sewer and septic tank cleaning workers. Many officials of the Urban Administration Department and Raipur Municipal Corporation, including SUDA Chief Executive Officer Mr. Shashank Pandey, Additional Chief Executive Officer Mr. Dushyant Kumar and Raipur Municipal Corporation Additional Commissioner Mr. Rajendra Prasad Gupta, were also present at the program.
The Namaste scheme is being jointly operated in the urban bodies of the country by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Social Justice and Empowerment of the Central Government. In Chhattisgarh, SUDA (State Urban Development Agency) is providing PPE kits to the employees cleaning sewers and septic tanks to provide safe and respectable working conditions. Under this, 711 employees will be given PPE kits in 169 urban bodies of the state. Along with two pairs of PPE kit dress, they will be provided gum boots, helmet, gloves, mask and glasses for eye protection. The main objective of the Namaste scheme is to completely end the practice of manual scavenging, mechanize sanitation work and provide a means of permanent livelihood to sewer and septic tank cleaning employees. It is being operated by the National Safai Karamchari Finance Development Corporation.
