Ms. Meghna Sahoo, Chairperson of the Third Gender Welfare Trust, acknowledged sanitation work as a vital social service and expressed solidarity with BMC, CFAR and Garima for enhancing safety of core sanitation workers. In this context, she highlighted the role of sexual and gender minorities in fecal sludge treatment plants, aiming to join forces with the core sanitation workers and together dismantling social stigma against the work in more ways than one.