Self-Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS)

It was launched in 2007 with the objective of rehabilitating manual scavengers and their dependents in alternative occupation by 2009 but was extended as the target was not achieved.

• After the enactment of ‘Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013’, SRMS was revised in synchronization with the provision of the Act.
• Under this scheme one-time cash assistance is provided to one member from each family. It is administered by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.