Why are the Safai Karamcharis and Scavengers give loan?
A. Loans are made available to persons who are engaged in, or employed for, Manually carrying human excreta or any sanitation work and also their dependents to empower them to break away from their traditional occupation and take up alternative and dignified occupation. Q. Why are the dependants of Safai Karamcharis and Scabbengers also given loans. A. The Government of India intends to break the traditional link of certain caste/communities with the occupation of being engaged in, or employed for, manually carrying human excreta or any sanitation work which has been continuing from generations to generations. This can be achieved if the dependants of the Safai Karamcharis/Scavengers are empowered to take up alternative and dignified occupations through loans from NSKFDC and other Government programmes with training in skills and trades, wherever required, so that they do not fall prey to economic compulsions of taking up the traditional occupation.
