Around two thirds of the VRS employees are estimated to be engaged in meaningful activities. They contribute to the economy and their families.  Activities barbing the VRS availed employees are varied reflecting the nature of the local economy on one hand and the age and skill profile of the individual. The works done by these individuals also change over the years for better. The path negotiated and the trajectory of redeployment from the stage of job loss is a difficult process, as they have to compete with several persons. Experiences of those successful VRS employees reveal the traits and factors influencing the success of their mission.

There are several cases of such successful individuals who have found meaningful niche for their alternative livelihoods. Some have succeeded in starting own business small enterprises. Some have gone into new jobs. A few have negotiated the new realities through collective effort by forming a group of the VRS employees. Some have located themselves in traditional and familiar areas of work. A few have gone sea change in occupational shift from simple manual work to IT services.

It is one field that is less understood or documented. Post VRS lives of people in government as well as private sector are increasingly attracting the attention of policy makers, workers, and a host of other stakeholders. SSNP facilitates alternative livelihoods of VRS employees among the SLPEs through new skills, upgradation of skills, counselling for self employment and related services. Conservative data base on redeployment of the VRS availed employees suggests that around twelve hundred persons have been into alternative livelihoods. A few case studies are presented here from different sectors/ enterprises.