Enquiry in Policies and Interventions for Sustainability Led Sanitation in India:a Socio-Economic Study on Safai-Karmacahri.

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 13:00
Location: FSE039 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
Ritu SHARMA, University of Delhi, India
Until now ‘sanitation for sustainability’ has never been the forerunner of the political economy until ‘sustainable society’. The baton is to direct government in collaboration with institutions to work in harmony as public-private partnership with SDG goals to alleviate socio-economic conditions of the state. This takes us back to the ancient idea to value wisdom as ‘differentiating between civic virtues and vices’ integral to society (Aristotle Book III : 1276 b-34). This research study profess an indirect intervention of public administration with regulation of waste practices by sanitation workers in India. Recognising that no nation could resolve these issues on their own, there has to be intersection approach as dividend to international cooperation for tackling development in sanitation and hygiene . Infact there can be all inclusive approach to accelerate resilience amongst (safai-karmachari) green warriors as the forerunners of green initiatives in waste management in government led institutions and otherwise. This is promoted at the behest of ecological protection and increasing life chances of the genetically mutated diversity through sustainable resources. The intended research study targets dynamic action oriented approach in institution to facilitate knowledge transfer from age old division of labour to occupational specialisation in government as catalyst for green-welfare society. This can harnesses expertise by establishing collaborations between institutions and industry by inculcating equity and employment via organised contractual jobs as manifested in (SDG 4;8; 9;16 and 17). To achieve this within a historically short time needs to reappraise most aspects of its organization and government policies both as subject and agent.There has been intersectional problems fuelled by social evils as caste and untouchability being both part of the problem and the solution as a paradox. The study aims to enquire government intervention and policies to further strengthen the socio-economic conditions of sanitation workers in India.