The Vasai-Virar municipal corporation has come up with a unique initiative to provide employment to the inmates of a shelter, established in 2017 that houses homeless people.

The centre, run under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana and National Urban Livelihood Campaign, provides shelter, food, healthcare facilities and other basic things to people found begging on streets and orphans. A women's self-help group comprising the shelter's inmates has also been started to look into the day-to-day functioning of the unit. However, the civic body has also started to provide employment to the rest and help them earn a livelihood.