Written by Nikhil Ghanekar New Delhi | August 22, 2025 02:56 AM IST 2 min readThe panel’s recommendations were made in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.A parliamentary standing committee on social justice and empowerment has told the Centre that sanitation workers must get safety kits and health benefits in time under the national scheme designed for them, and asked for completion of profiling of sanitation workers in a time-bound manner.It has also asked the Centre to review the implementation of the scheme for residential education of Scheduled Caste (SC) students, to identify reasons for shortfall in selection of requisite number of beneficiaries and underutilisation of funds.The panel noted that 73,289 SSWs (sewer and septic tank workers) were profiled and 69,231 of them were validated; 45,871 PPE kits were given for SSWs and 16,962 Ayushman cards were made. Despite these efforts, the panel said, there is still a “significant gap” in profiling and validation of SSWs, distribution of PPE kits, safety devices and Ayushman cards.“The committee, therefore, reiterates that the profiling and validation of SSWs should be completed in a time-bound manner and also ensure that the safety kits, PPE kits and Ayushman cards are distributed to all eligible SSWs without any delay,” the panel said.The panel’s recommendations were made in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.An award-winning journalist with 14 years of experience, Nikhil Ghanekar is an Assistant Editor with the National Bureau [Government] of The Indian Express in New Delhi. He primarily covers environmental policy matters which involve tracking key decisions and inner workings of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. He also covers the functioning of the National Green Tribunal and writes on the impact of environmental policies on wildlife conservation, forestry issues and climate change. Nikhil joined The Indian Express in 2024. Originally from Mumbai, he has worked in publications such as Tehelka, Hindustan Times, DNA Newspaper, News18 and Indiaspend. In the past 14 years, he has written on a range of subjects such as sports, current affairs, civic issues, city centric environment news, central government policies and politics. ... Read MoreStay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Sanitation workers