National Rural Livelihood Mission: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 3 November 2022

National Rural Livelihood Mission

✓The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development.

✓This scheme is focused on promoting self-employment and organization of rural poor. The basic idea behind this programme is to organize the poors into SHGs (Self Help Groups) and make them capable for self-employment.

Pillars of NRLM

∆Enhancing and expanding existing livelihood options of the poor

∆Building skills for the job market outside

∆Nurturing self-employed and entrepreneurs.

✓The Mission neither focuses on setting up a large number of new manufacturing industries, nor agribusiness centres in rural areas.

✓Its objective is not to supply seeds, fertilizers, diesel pump-sets and micro-irrigation equipment.