12 Years of Transforming Lives: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Uplifts Over 11 Crore aspirational Citizens

• Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE), under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MoSJE), released a 12-year review claiming a paradigm shift from welfare to empowerment impacting >11 crore citizens with cumulative outlays >₹71,000 crore.
• Target groups: SCs, OBCs, EBCs, DNTs, senior citizens, transgender persons, sanitation workers, drug-dependents, beggars.
• High-value Prelims/Mains anchor: aggregates PM-AJAY, NAMASTE, SMILE, AVYAY, PM-SURAJ, Post-Matric & Pre-Matric Scholarships, NAPDDR under one umbrella story.