Q37. Consider the following statement about National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC).
1. This is the part of The National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC).
2. It is Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India.
3. The target group of the Corporation does not include the person engaged or employed by an individual or private agency.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
(a) Only 1 and 2
The National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) was set up in February, 1989 under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 (formerly Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956). National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) was incorporated in January, 1997. NSKFDC is an Apex Corporation under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India. The target group of the Corporation are “Scavengers”, “Manual Scavenger” means a person engaged or employed by an individual or a local authority or a public or private agency, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which the human excreta from insanitary latrines is disposed of, or on a railway track or in such other spaces or premises, as the Central Government or a State Government may notify, before the excreta fully decomposes, and the expression “manual scavenging” shall be interpreted accordingly