The project has been taken up by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a part of the National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation’s (NSKFDC) work. The corporation is responsible for rehabilitation of manual scavengers across the country. After their training, the women will begin working as commercial cab drivers in Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai. According to reports, the social justice ministry has tied up with cab service providers like Ola, Uber and Meru, along with airport taxis, to train 10,000 such Dalit women manual scavengers by 2019.

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