Inclusive growth, empowering sanitation workers to own this machine: “Manual Scavenging has to be eliminated but sanitation work had to continue. Sanitation workers have to have safer and respectful way of doing this essential work. The awareness regarding pathological contamination persisting in faecal sludge even up to 6 months and Covid threat due to exposure to septage is real. Dewatering equipment and vacuum tankers used for handling septage are inadequate because they don’t have means for agitating the settled sludge. Over time, the faecal sludge settles, collects and densifies needing human intervention for removal. The narrow lanes and remote locations depend more on human handling of septage due to accessibility and financial viability handicap in using tankers and mounted dewatering equipment. The growing awareness of the sanitation worker and continuous efforts of the Government to provide alternative occupations to the Manual Scavengers will bring in an impending shortage of faecal sludge workers sooner than later”.