Its cardinal mandate includes, among different things, recommending to the Centre circumstantial programmes of enactment towards elimination of inequities successful status, facilities and opportunities for safai karamcharis, survey and measure implementation of programmes and schemes relating to societal and economical rehabilitation of safai karamcharis, and scavengers successful particular.
The Union Cabinet connected Friday approved the hold of the tenure of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) for a play of 3 years up to March 2028. The fiscal accusation for the hold would beryllium astir Rs 51 crore, a authorities enactment said.
The contiguous tenure of the Commission was to extremity connected March 31 and it has been extended up to March 31, 2028.
The Commission was acceptable up arsenic a statutory assemblage successful 1994 nether the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993. After the lapsing of the Act successful 2024, the Commission is non-statutory, however, its scope expanded aft the enactment of The Prohibition of Employment arsenic Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
Its cardinal mandate includes, among different things, recommending to the Centre circumstantial programmes of enactment towards elimination of inequities successful status, facilities and opportunities for safai karamcharis, survey and measure implementation of programmes and schemes relating to societal and economical rehabilitation of safai karamcharis, and scavengers successful particular.
Further, it besides has the mandate to analyse the non-implementation programmes and schemes for safai karamcharis, and provisions of immoderate laws successful its exertion to safai karamcharis and instrumentality up specified matters with the applicable authorities.
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