National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
The originally launched Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP), subsequently modified as Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) in the year 1999, was a flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Development.
The program aimed at providing sustainable income to rural BPL households, through income generating assets/economic activities, in order to bring them out of poverty.
The Committee recommended adoption of a ‘Livelihoods Approach’ to rural poverty elimination. The approach encompassed the following four inter-related tasks:
- Mobilizing poor households into functionally effective SHGs and their federations
- Enhancing access to bank credit and financial, technical and marketing services
- Building capacities and skills for gainful and sustainable livelihoods development
- Converging various schemes, for efficient delivery of social and economic support services to poor households
The guiding principles of NRLM are:
- Poor have a strong desire to come out of poverty, and they have innate capabilities
- Social mobilization and building strong institutions of the poor is critical for unleashing the innate capabilities of the poor.
- An external dedicated and sensitive support structure is required to induce the social mobilization, institution building and empowerment process
- Facilitating knowledge dissemination, skill building, access to credit, access to marketing and access to other livelihood services underpins this upward mobility
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