Scheduled Caste Development Department is implementing the Dakshayani self-employment scheme with 75 per cent subsidy

18 October 2026

Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Welfare Minister K.A. Thulasi said the Scheduled Caste Development Department is implementing the Dakshayani Swayam Thozhil Sahaya Padhathi. The scheme aims to secure the economic self-sufficiency of women of the Scheduled Caste community, encourage entrepreneurship and create sustainable employment through collectives. It provides 75 per cent subsidy for enterprise activities that can succeed locally. The Minister also said a special housing scheme will be implemented for homeless people of the Scheduled Caste community and for those living in uninhabitable houses, as part of the State Government's hundred-day action programme. He was inaugurating the district-level observance of the Social Solidarity Fortnight. Ramesh Pisharody MLA presided, V.K. Sreekandan MP was chief guest and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Chairman Kalpetta Narayanan delivered the keynote address.