PLIGHT OF SANITATION WORKERS IN CUMBUM, THENI DISTRICT

(Interview Schedule)

I PERSONAL DETAILS

1. Name:
2. Age: 1) < 18 2) 19-21 3)22-35 4) 36-45 5) 46-55 6) 56-65 7) 66-75 8) > 75
3. Sex: 1) Male 2) Female 3) Transgender
4. Marital Status: 1)Married 2) Unmarried 3) Divorced 4) Separated 5) Widow
5. Religion: 1) Hindu 2) Christian 3) Islam 4) Others
6. Community: 1) FC 2) BC 3) MBC 4) DNC 5) SC 6) ST 7) Not to say 8) Others
7. Are you a migrant ? : Yes / No
If yes, from which place:__________
8. Education : 1) Illiterate 2) Primary 3) Elementary 4) Secondary
5) Higher secondary 6) UG 7) PG 8) Diploma 9) Others
9. Are you a person with disabilities? : Yes / No

9.a. If yes, type of disabilities: 1) Orthopedically challenged 2) Visually challenged

3) Multiple challenged 4) Hearing impair 5) Others
II FAMILY DETAILS
S.NO Relation to Sex Age Education Occupation Monthly Remark
. respondents Income (widow/disabled)

10. Number Of Family Members ______

11. Nature of family: 1)Nuclear family 2) Joint family
12. Reason for the type of family : 1) Economic reason 2) Social reason 3) Political win 4)
Others
13. Did you adopt family planning ? : Yes / No

If yes , could you mention the live birth ? _______

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III SOCIAL STATUS

14. Did you /your family member had converted to any other religion ? Yes/ No
If yes, please mention the religion to which you / your family converted to .
1) Christian 2) Hindu 3) Muslim 4) Buddhism 5) other
15. Please mention the reason for conversion.
1) Social status 2) cultural status 3) economic upgradation 4) political win 5) others
IV ECONOMIC STATUS
16. Being a sanitation worker how much you could earn per month ?
1) < 5k 2) 5k to 10k 3) 11k 15k 4) 16k to 20k 5) > 20k
17. Would you have any other secondary work ? : Yes / No
If yes, how much could you earn from secondary work ?
1) < 5k 2) 5k - 10k 3) 11k - 5k 3) 16k - 20k 4) > 20k
18. Do you have the following ?
If yes please mention it and its quantum :

S. No Land type Quantum Ownership (ansisters / self / wife / husband /

son / daughter / brother / relative / friends)

1 Housing plot Sq.

Meter
2 Cultivatable land Cent
3 Dry land Cent
4 Poramboku land Cent
5 Govt land Cent
6 Panchami land Cent
7 Forest land Cent

V LIVING CONDITION
19. Are you living in own house ? : Yes /No
If no, whose house is this? 1) As rented 2) as leased 3) friends 4) relatives
5) housing board 6) son’s house 7) daughter’s house 8) others
20. Mention the type of house :

S.No. Type of house Pucca Semi-pucca Bad condition

1 Hut
2 Asbestos sheet(cement/ tin)
3 Tiled
4 Concert roof house
21. Space of the house in sq. meter : 1) 200 and below 2) 201-300 3) 301-400
4)401-500 5)above 500
22. How many rooms are available in your house ? 1 2 3 4 5 more than 5

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 23. Purpose of the rooms:

S.No Room number Purposes (kitchen, hall , bed room , pooja room, toilet)
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
21. Is it sufficient ? : 1)Well sufficient 2) Sufficient to some extend 3)Not sufficient
22. Household articles: 1) Sulla 2) light 3) fan 4) mixer 5)wed grinder 6)television
7)fridge 8)washing machine 9)smart phone 10) laptop 11)computer
23. Facilities at house: 1) Electricity 2) municipality water connection 3) sump
4) bore well 5) hand pump 6) well
24. Facilities available in area : 1) Municipal water connection 2) street light 3) road facilities
4) Anganwadi centre 5) school 6) college 7) PHC 8) govt. hospital 9) bank
10) post office 11)police station 12) market 13) public toilet
25. Do you have the following properties? 1) Livestock 2) bike 3) car
VI WORKING CONDITION
26. What is your type of work? 1) Permanent 2) Consolidated pay 3) Daily wage
4) Outsource 5) Contract 6) Temporary
27. Nature of work:1) Cleaning Street 2) Drainage cleaning 3) Collecting garbage
4) Septic tank cleaning 5) Toilet cleaning 6) Water storage cleaning
7) Office maintenance
28. In What type of secondary work you involved in? 1) Rag picking 2) selling sanitary articles
3) cleaning private toilet and septic tanks 4) public maintenance 5) others
29. How did you find the present primary and secondary work ?
S.No Sources of the work Primary work Secondary work
1 Self
2 Parents
3 Neighbour
4 Friends
5 Officials
6 NGO
7 Well-wisher
8 Media
9 Others

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 30. How many days you could get work from the following and mention the earning particulars
1) Organized sector work ------- days per. month . earning per month _______
2) Private sector work -------- days per. month . earning per month _______
31. How long you are engaged in the work ?
a) Organized work : 1) Less than 8 hours 2) 8-10 hours 3) More than 10 hours
b) Private work : 1) Less than 8 hours 2) 8-10 hours 3) More than 10 hours
32. Type of payment : 1) Salary 2) wage 3) cooli 4) compliment
33. Mode of salary and wage payment : 1) Bank credit 2) direct cash payment
34. How often do you have to work overtime? : 1) Mostly 2)Sometimes 3) Situation matters
35. Is overtime always voluntary? Yes / No
36. For what reason you are involved in overtime? 1) Absence of co-worker 2) For extra payment
3) Situation importance 4) For adding on Leaves 5) Others
VII EXPENDITURE PATTERN
37. Is the present income is adequate for you to lead your family ? Yes / No
38. Can you mention your expenditure saving and debt
Expenditure Saving Dept
Groceries Source of saving Bank loan
Cooking fuel Bank - Gold loan
Family ceremony Chit fund - Personal loan
Socio-cultural functions SHG - Housing loan
Religious ceremonies LIC - Others____
Need fulfilment Group saving Private financing agencies
Health Post office Local money lenders
Education Private financing agencies
Others

39. Have you satisfied with your work by your employer? YES / NO
If yes , At what extend : 1) higher extend 2) some extend 3) lower extend
4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, mention the reason : 1) Not getting the salary properly 2) work load

3) employer is not treating us in a good manner 4) other

40. Have you taken any steps to improve your knowledge and skill on the present work ? Yes/ No
If no, mention the reason _____________
If yes, mention the steps taken _____________
41. Would you have any idea to withdraw from this work and change over to yet another? Yes /No
If yes , Please mention _____________

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42. If you have a plan to change over the job/ work, what are the knowledge and skills you have
and yet to develop?
Skills having skills yet to develop
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5

43. Dou you have any plan to develop / start any business? Yes / No
If yes , can you mention the both material and non- material resources which you have ?
Material resource Non-material resources
1. Land 1. Basic knowledge
2. Money 2. Skill
3. Loan facilities 3. Completed any Training
4. Raw materials 4. Prior experience
5. Market Availability 5. If any other_____
6. If any other ______

44. Have you come across any govt policies and programmes for the protection of sanitation
workers? Yes / No
If yes ,Can you mention ______
45. To which extend you aware of it ? 1) higher extend 2) some extend 3) lower extend
4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
46. Have you heard of the following and its executions and importance?
i) Sanitation Workers Rehabilitation Scheme (SWRS) : Yes / No
If yes, Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited :1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________
ii) Vocational Education and Training Loan Scheme: yes/ no
If yes, Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited : 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________
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iii) Sanitary Marts Scheme : Yes / No
If yes, Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited : 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________

iv) Swachhta Udyami Yojana (SUY) : Yes / No

If yes ,Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned: Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________

v) Mahila Adhikarita Yojana (MAY) : Yes / No

If yes, Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited : 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________
vi) MahilaSamridhiYojna (MSY) : Yes / No
If yes, Did you applied for loan : Yes / No
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited : 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________
vii) Micro Credit Finance (MCF) : Yes / No
If yes, Did you applied for loan : yes/ no
Did you got the loan sanctioned : Yes / No
If yes, To what extend you are benefited : 1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason __________
viii) Do you know that Awareness Camps are conducted by national commission for
safaikarmacharis : Yes /No
If yes, Did you attended any awareness camp : Yes / No
To what extend it was beneficial : 1) higher extend 2) some extend 3) lower extend
4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
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ix) Do you know that Workshops/Job Fairs are conducted by national commission for
safaikarmacharis : Yes / No
If yes ,Did you attended any Workshops/Job Fairs : Yes / No
To which extend it was beneficial : 1) higher extend 2) some extend 3) lower extend
4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
x) Pre-metric scholarship: Yes / No
If yes, Did children in your family got enrolled in it : Yes / No
Did they received scholarship money : Yes / No
If yes ,To which extend it was beneficial :1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no, What is the reason ________
xi) Education Loan (EL) : Yes / No
If yes, Did children in your family got enrolled in it : Yes / No
Does the student studying : within india / in abroad
Did they received scholarship money : Yes / No
If yes, To which extend it was beneficial :1) higher extend 2) some extend
3) lower extend 4) very lower extend 5) not interested to express
If no ,What is the reason ________