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About USRLM
The Government of India established the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) to implement the new strategy of poverty alleviation woven around community-based institutions. The Mission’s primary objective is to reduce poverty by promoting diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities for a sustainable increase in incomes. The Mission would work in conjunction with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) of MORD and would primarily focus on creating self-employment and wage/job employment opportunities for the rural poor who would enable them to cross the threshold of poverty and become productive agents.
NRLM would provide a combination of financial resources and technical assistance to states such that they could use the comprehensive livelihoods approach encompassing four inter-related tasks viz.
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Mobilizing all rural, poor households into effective self-help groups (SHGs) and their federations;
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Enhancing access of the rural poor to credit and other financial, technical, and marketing services;
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Building capacities and skills of the poor for gainful and sustainable livelihoods;
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Improving the delivery of social and economic support services to the poor.
The National Rural Livelihood Mission constitutes a paradigm shift in the implementation of poverty alleviation programmes in the country. It is built on the lessons from different ongoing programmes of the GOI and the states.
SRLM Mission
"To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities,
resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor."
SRLM Values
The core values which guide all the activities under SRLM are as follows:
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Inclusion of the poorest, and meaningful role to the poorest in all the processes
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Transparency and accountability
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Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions in all stages
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Community self-reliance and self-dependence