Overview

• The commission’s functions include protecting workers’ rights, overseeing rehabilitation, monitoring welfare schemes and redressing grievances.
• It will comprise one chairperson, one vice-chairperson and five members, including a mandatory woman or transgender representative.
• It aims to integrate marginalized sanitation workers into the mainstream and foster their social and economic development.
• Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced the body via a post on X, marking Bihar’s first dedicated statutory commission for sanitation workers.
• The move expands Bihar’s institutional support beyond existing national commissions by creating a state-specific welfare body for all sanitation workers.