ABSTRACT
Sanitation is one of the essential aspects of everyone's life. Sanitation ensures the people to stay healthy and happy. Similarly sanitation is also ensuring one aspects of quality life of the people. In order to provide good sanitation the central and state governments are allocating huge amount of money in their budget. For providing adequate sanitation facility to the people the government appoints the sanitary workers in every village, town, city and corporation. Because of their important role during COVID-19 pandemic, they are treated as front line workers like doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. The present paper aims to understand the status of sanitary workers in Nallagoundampatty village panchayat in Omalur taluk. The results show that the sanitary workers are getting poor reputation from the people in general.