madurai a sanitary workers development scheme for the empowerment of sanitation workers across the state was inaugurated by chief minister m k stalin in madurai on friday tamil nadu is the second state in the country to have such scheme and a mobile application for sanitation workers after odishathe cm also unveiled a logo for the sanitary workers and launched a mobile application called shwas sanitation workers health welfare and safety at madurai corporation office a badge carrying the logo was unveiledthe scheme will benefit around 53301 sanitary workers 18859 permanent workers and 34442 temporary workers across the state as a part of it stalin gave away safety kits to five sanitation workers the scheme will focus on the wholistic development of sanitation workers and their families with the help of urban local governments and urban management centre a nonprofit organisation the scheme along with the mobile application will help the workers get enrolled enumerated properly and lead a dignified life said the director of umc sanitary workers will be identified and provided with skill development education loans for children loans to do alternate business and insurance the scheme has been implemented on a pilot basis in five local bodies zone 6 of chennai corporation zone 3 of madurai corporation pollachi municipality pudukkottai municipality and cheranmahadevi town panchayat director of urban management centre umc manvita baradi on the need for the mobile app said most of the sanitation workers are invisible as they work on contractual basis all these workers must be streamlined under a single forum so that the schemes can reach them without leakageshwas will help the workers register themselves which will pave the way for the state government to identify the them manvita said that there is no clear data on the number of sanitary workers in the country though some surveys said that there are around five million workersfinance minister p t r palanivel thiagarajan minister of commercial taxes p moorthy minister of municipal administration k n nehru mp su venkatesan minister of rural development periya karuppan mayor v indirani ponvasanth and corporation commissioner simranjeet singh kahlon were present later stalin unveiled a 13foottall bronze statue of dr b r ambedkar at perungudi near madurai airport vck leader thol thirumavalavan was also present