From Sanitation Worker to Self-Reliant Entrepreneur: Ajay Kumar's Journey under NAMASTE-SUY

This press release highlights the impact of the Swachhta Udyami Yojana (SUY) under the NAMASTE Scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through the success story of Ajay Kumar, a sanitation worker from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Benefiting from an upfront capital subsidy and a loan totalling a project cost of Rs. 11,34,000, he procured mechanised equipment (a tractor-cum-sewer suction machine). This institutional financial assistance helped him expand his sanitation services, improve his income to Rs. 30,000–Rs. 35,000 per month, support his family's living standards, fund his daughters' education, and manage regular medical expenses for his mother.