Financial Assistance to Ex-Convicts
Pays Kerala ex-convicts a one-time Rs15,000 grant to start a small trade.
Kerala's Department of Social Justice launched this scheme to help people released from jail, and probationers, find a livelihood through small-scale self-employment. The department describes its rationale as a shift from simply confining offenders toward correcting and reforming them through individualised treatment, on the view that this better protects society. Assistance is paid once, as a lum…
The scheme funds small-scale self-employment or trade ventures for people recently released from jail in Kerala, as part of their social and economic rehabilitation. It targets ex-convicts specifically, not the wider unemployed population.
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