Social Safety Net Programme builds capacities of the VRS availed employees towards improving their endeavors aimed at self employment through retraining in new skills and or entrepreneurship. They are retrained/ reskilled in order to upgrade their skills or trained in new areas according to their aptitude and requirements of the prevailing labour market. SSNP facilitates alternative livelihoods for VRS availed employees through customized retraining programmes in a variety of fields in accordance with local market situation. Retraining programmes are provided to date in 16 districts of Andhra Pradesh.

These retraining programmes vary from one week to six months intensive practical learning. Best possible training is imparted through outsourcing. Around two hundred agencies, both government and private, are enlisted in imparting the training. Training is imparted in about 70 areas including Information Technology, engineering, electronics, Agri-based, Automobile field, Teacher training, Fashion designing, Hotel Management, non farm technologies, and rural industry, carpentry, building materials, etc. Retraining programmes meet specific needs of the trainees and are designed in participatory manner. The VRS package is essentially aimed at mitigating the immediate impact of job loss to similar schemes. This is a well-conceived scheme, which is evident from the fact that though, broadly the package was envisaged for those who had completed 10 years of service the Government has accommodated even those who have not completed this tenure. Thus the humane dimension of reform is addressed through the Social Safety Net Programme.