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Organisation : Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Scheme Name : DAY-NULM Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Urban Livelihoods Mission
Applicable States/ UTs : All Over India
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MHUPA DAY-NULM

National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), Government of India in 23rd September, 2013 by replacing the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY).

Related : Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs North Eastern Region Urban Development Programme : www.statusin.in/36162.html

The NULM will focus on organizing urban poor in their strong grassroots level institutions, creating opportunities for skill development leading to market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment venture by ensuring easy access to credit.

The Mission is aimed at providing shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner. In addition, the Mission would also address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors.

Features

The Main Features of NULM are :
1. Coverage : In the 12th Five Year Plan, NULM will be implemented in all districts headquarter towns(irrespective of population) and all other towns with population of 1 lakh or more as per Census 2011. At present 790 cities are under NULM. However, other towns may be allowed in exceptional cases on request of the States.

2. Target Population : The primary target of NULM is the urban poor, including the urban homeless.

3. Sharing of funding : Funding will be shared between the Centre and the States in the ratio of 75:25. For North Eastern and Special Category States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand), this ratio will be 90:10.

Guiding Principles

** The core belief of National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) is that the poor are entrepreneurial and have innate desire to come out of poverty. The challenge is to unleash their capabilities to generate meaningful and sustainable livelihoods.

The first step in this process is motivating the urban poor to form their own institutions. They and their institutions need to be provided sufficient capacity so that they can manage the external environment, access finance, expand their skills, enterprises and assets.

This requires continuous and carefully designed hand holding support. An external, dedicated and sensitive support structure, from the national level to the city and community levels, is required to induce social mobilisation, institution building and livelihood promotion.

** NULM believes that any livelihood promotion programme can be scaled up in a time bound manner only if driven by the poor and their institutions. Such strong institutional platforms support the poor in building up their own human, social, financial, and other assets.

This in turn,enables them access to rights, entitlements, opportunities and services from the public and private sectors, while enhancing their solidarity, voice and bargaining power.

** As per the Constitution (74th Amendment) Act, 1992, urban poverty alleviation is a legitimate function of the Urban Local Bodies (ULB). Therefore, ULBs would need to undertake a lead role for all issues and programmes concerning the urban poor in cities/towns, including skills and livelihoods.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Which Cities/ Towns are presently covered under NULM?
The Mission is being implemented in all District Headquarters and other cities with population of 1 lakh or more.

2. What are the main features of NULM?
It focuses on organizing urban poor in self help groups, skill development for market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment venture by ensuring credit on subsidized rate of interest. The scheme has multipronged approach to mitigate poverty in urban areas.

3. What are various components of NULM?
The following are the 7 components of NULM :
1) Social Mobilization and Institution Development(SM&ID)
2) Employment through Skills Training and Placement(EST&P)
3) Capacity Building and Training (CBT)

4) Self-Employment Programme (SEP)
5) Scheme of Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH)
6) Support to Urban Street Vendors (SUSV)
7) Innovative and Special project(ISP)