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SMILE Scheme
Context
While the SMILE scheme has made notable progress in identifying and rehabilitating beggars in urban areas, it still faces challenges in terms of the scale of implementation and underreporting of the issue
What is SMILE Scheme?
- Launched in: 2022
- The SMILE scheme (Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise) is a government initiative launched by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- The scheme is aimed at rehabilitating individuals involved in begging and addressing the issue of beggary in urban spaces, particularly in religious, tourist, and historical cities.
- The initiative also includes a sub-scheme for the empowerment of transgender persons.
- Key Objectives of the SMILE Scheme:
- Identification and Rehabilitation of Beggars
- Empowerment of Transgender Persons
- Progress so far: By December 2024, the scheme had successfully identified 9,958 individuals engaged in begging across the 81 cities. Out of these, 970 individuals have been rehabilitated, with 352 children among those rehabilitated.
Beggars in IndiaThe 2011 Census recorded over 3.7 lakh beggars across India, while the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) of the same year revealed that over 6.62 lakh households in rural India rely on begging or charity for survival. |
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