Goals of the Scheme:

• To ensure livelihood security to urban households by providing guaranteed employment for 120 days.
• To facilitate skill enhancement of persons engaged in waged labour jobs to provide them with better livelihood opportunities and to set up their enterprises by imparting entrepreneurship training as well as subsidy-linked credit linkages.
• To strengthen urban infrastructure and provisioning of quality civic amenities in the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).

• The scheme provides guaranteed 120 days of employment to eligible beneficiaries in urban local bodies to ensure livelihood security.
• The ULBs shall not employ an eligible beneficiary for more than 120 days in any financial year.
• Employment will be given to the eligible beneficiary within 15 days of registration, failing which an unemployment allowance of ₹75 per day will be paid by the ULBs.

Maximum Period for Employment:

• The maximum period for which employment will be provided to a household shall be 120 days.

Skill Training:

• The eligible beneficiaries under this scheme will also be provided skill training under the Deen Dyal Antodaya-National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM), to create further opportunities for better livelihood.
• The eligible beneficiary will be provided skill training with entitlement to minimum wage as notified by the government up to a maximum of four weeks only after doing wage employment of 30 days under MMSAGY.

Bank Linkage:

• The eligible beneficiary so skilled under this scheme will be facilitated to apply for loans under DAY-NULM.
• The eligible beneficiary provided skill training above, willing to start their Enterprise will be linked to the banks under the Self Employment Programme (SEP) of DAY-NULM.

• Local resident of the Urban Local Body. (Meaning thereby they should be residing within the jurisdiction of the Urban Local Body either in their own house or on rent).
• Willing to do unskilled work at projects being executed or in Sanitation Services being provided by the Urban Local Bodies.

Permissible Activities:

• In any ongoing or new admissible work under any Govt. of H.P./Govt. of India scheme for which funds are available with ULB.
• In any admissible work under the 15th Finance Commission or 5ffi State Finance Commission for which grant-in-aid is provided to the ULBs.
• Sanitation Works/Services as admissible under Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 and Swachh Bharat Mission. The sanitation works/services may include activities like street sweeping, garbage collection, processing/removal of legacy waste, waste segregation, cleaning of garbage from hill slopes or other litter points, cleaning and maintaining municipal parks, and cleaning of municipal parking.