National Commission for Safai Karamcharis:
The Union Cabinet approved a three-year extension of tenure for the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK).
- National Commission for Safai Karamcharis was first set up in 1994 under the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993.
- It was functioning as a statutory body till 2004, when the law lapsed.
- Since then, the commission is acting as a non-statutory body under the Social Justice Ministry with its tenure being extended from time to time.
- The NCSK gives recommendations to the Government regarding specific programmes for welfare of Safai Karamcharis, study and evaluate the existing welfare programmes for Safai Karamcharis, investigate cases of specific grievances etc.
- The NCSK has been assigned the work to monitor the implementation of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
- It is the only body keeping track of sewer deaths in the entire country.
