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National Waste-Pickers Database
February 7 , 2026
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- The Union Government released the first national data on waste-pickers under the NAMASTE (National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) scheme.
- About 1.52 lakh waste-pickers have been profiled and validated by Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across 35 States and Union Territories.
- Around 84.5% of waste-pickers belong to the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.
- Nearly 48.7% are women, 51.3% men, and 12 transgender persons among the profiled workers.
- The NAMASTE scheme, implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, to recognise sanitation workers and eliminate deaths from hazardous sewer and septic-tank cleaning.
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