National Urban Livelihood Mission: Explained

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The Mission of NULM is to reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them
to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable
improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions
of the poor. The mission would also aim 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 also by facilitating access to suitable spaces, institutional credit, social security and skills to
the urban street vendors for accessing emerging market opportunities.
NULM will rest on the foundation of community mobilization and women empowerment. NULM envisages
universal mobilisation of urban poor households into thrift and credit-based Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and
their federations/collectives. These groups will serve as a support system for the poor, to meet their
financial and social need.
Under the Mission, City Livelihood Centres (CLCs) will be established in Mission cities to provide a
platform whereby the urban poor can market their services and access information on self-employment,
skill training and other benefits.
NULM will target the urban poor who are occupationally vulnerable for Employment through Skills Training &
Placement (EST&P). The Mission will focus on providing assistance for development / upgrading of the
skills of the urban poor so as to enhance their capacity for self-employment and salaried employment. It
intends to provide training to the urban poor as per the skill demand from the market, so that they can set
up self-employment ventures or secure salaried employment.
Through the Self-Employment Programme (SEP), NULM will provide financial assistance to individuals and
groups of urban poor to set up gainful self-employment / micro-enterprise ventures.
The Support to Urban Street Vendors (USV) component will cover a socio-economic survey of street
vendors, development of pro-vending urban planning and vendors markets, credit enablement of vendors,
skill development and micro-enterprise development and convergence under various schemes of the
Government.
NULM would aim at providing shelter for the urban homeless equipped with essential services. The shelters
should be permanent all-weather 24 x 7 shelters for the urban homeless. For every one lakh urban
population, provisions will be made for permanent community shelters for a minimum of one hundred
persons. Depending upon local conditions each shelter could cater to between 50 and 100 persons.
A mission mode approach in the form of the National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) is considered

necessary to organize urban poor in Self Help Groups, creating opportunities for skill development leading
to market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment ventures by ensuring easy
access to credit. This will result in the empowerment and dignity of life of the urban poor. The approval of
the National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) represents a strategic shift in the Governments
commitment to urban poverty alleviation.
The NULM will be implemented in two phases: Phase I (2013-2017) and Phase II (2017-2022). In Phase I,
NULM will target all cities with a population of one lakh or more and district headquarter towns with a
population of less than one lakh as per Census of India 2011. However, other towns may be allowed in
exceptional cases on the request of the States.
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.
Background:
The President of India, in her address to the joint session of Parliament in March 2012 had said: To secure
livelihoods in the urban areas, my Government will soon launch the National Urban Livelihoods Mission for
imparting large scale skill up-gradation, enabling entrepreneurship development, and providing wage
employment and self-employment opportunities.
The Draft 12th Five Year Plan says that the NULM entails revamping the guidelines of SJSRY and
enhancing its scope. Its basic thrust would be to build capacities and skills in sectors that have growing
employment opportunities and are relevant to local socio-economic conditions. In its design the MULM
should deal with important issues like financial exclusion, policy and legal exclusion, and lack of access to
information and technology, raw materials and markets. It should also develop linkages with the
organizations like the National Skills Development Corporation and other private sector organizations
including vocational training institutions that can actually train and hire the urban poor to meet their growing
capacity needs. In addition, within the umbrella of NULM, a national scheme for support to street vendors
and National Programme for Urban Homeless would be launched as a part of the NULM.

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