Status of women Safai Karmacharis

A scavenger is wholly or partly engaged in manually removing night soil from dry latrines or manually handling the dead bodies of animals and humans. In India today, scavengers are now so-called sweepers due to the introduction of an organized framework of jobs that still carry out basic sanitary services in cities and towns. As per the caste hierarchy this Schedule caste placed at the bottom and treated as untouchable by other castes even other non-scavenging Schedule castes, they are deprived of all socio-economic privileges due to stigma discrimination, and lack of willingness of social welfare implementing agencies for this Dalit communities, mostly they living under chronic poverty, illiteracy, and with absence of enlightenment, though several program and policies framed by the government for them. This paper exclusively regards the status of women who are engaged in the scavenging occupation, the present paper tries to explore and analyse their socio-economic condition as well as how they are still far away from empowerment as nowadays women’s empowerment is a preliminary propaganda of the government