The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) was launched in 2011 with the goal of alleviating poverty through self-managed self-help groups, financial inclusion, and sustainable livelihood opportunities. NRLM aims to cover 7 crore rural households across India. It focuses on social mobilization and building strong grassroots institutions through self-help groups. NRLM provides support structures at national, state, district and local levels to facilitate livelihood programs and access to financial services for rural communities.

1. NRLM
AJEEVIKA MISSION
SUBMITTED BY:-
MEGHA BHARDWAJ
MBA(RD) 1ST YEAR

2. INTRODUCTION
• National Rural Livelihoods Mission was launched by the
Ministry of Rural Development(MORD), Government of India
in June 2011.
• NRLM set out with an agenda to cover 7 Crore rural poor
households, across 600 districts, 6000 blocks, 2.5 lakh Gram
Panchayats and 6 lakh villages in the country through self-
managed Self Help Groups (SHGs) and federated institutions
and support them for livelihoods collectives in a period of 8-10
years.
• In November 2015, the program was renamed Deendayal
Antayodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM).

3. NRLM 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."

4. Guiding principles
• Poor have a strong desire to come out of poverty, and they have
inborn capabilities.
• Social mobilization and building strong institutions of the poor
is critical for unleashing the inborn capabilities of the poor.
• An external dedicated and sensitive support structure is required
to induce the social mobilization, institution building and
empowerment process.

5. NRLM-values
The core values which guide all the activities under NRLM are
as follows:
• Addition of the poorest, and meaningful role to the poorest in
all the processes.
• Transparency and accountability of all processes and
institutions.
• Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions in all
stages– planning, implementation, and, monitoring.
• Community self-dependence.

6. Transition from SGSY to NRLM
• NRLM has been conceived as a programme which would
build on the strengths of SGSY and incorporate the learning
from the best practices emerging from successful rural
livelihoods programmes implemented in several pockets in
the country.

7. • The two major strategic shifts under NRLM, vis-à-vis
SGSY are that
• NRLM will be a demand driven programme and the states
will formulate their own poverty reduction action plans
based on their past experience, resources and skills base.
• NRLM will provide for a professional support structure
for programme implementation at all levels from the
national up to the block level in different streams.

8. FEATURES OF NRLM
• Universal Social Mobilisation
• Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP)
• Community Funds as Resources in Perpetuity
• Livelihoods
• Convergence
• Partnerships with NGOs and other Civil Society
Organisation (CSOs)
• Linkages with Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRIs)

9. Phased Implementation

10. Support structure
• NRLM has set up dedicated sensitive support units at the
National, State, district and sub-district levels, to
catalyze social mobilization, build institutions, capacities
and skills, facilitate financial inclusion and access to
financial services, support livelihoods.
• These units would be staffed with professionally
competent and dedicated human resources.

12. WHY NRLM?
• Social empowerment
• Women’s empowerment and gender equity.
• Sustainable livelihoods.
• Enhancement of incomes from multiple sources.
• Large number of micro–enterprises and employment generated
within.
• Human development-better health, nutrition, sanitation,
education
• If done well, it is the most cost effective process of social
transformation and nation building.

13. NRLM: POVERTY ELIMINATION
• Goal:-
Poverty elimination through social mobilization,
institution building, financial inclusion and a portfolio of
sustainable livelihoods.
• Vision:-
Each poor family should have an annual income of
at least Rs.50,000/-per annum

14. Bank linkages under NRLM
“Each poor household is able to access credit of at least Rs.1 lakh
in multiple doses (over 4-5 years)”

15. Geographical coverage under
NRLM
S. No. Indicators Achievement
1 Number of States/UTs transited to NRLM 34
2 Number of Districts with intensive blocks in NRLM States 583
3
Number of Blocks identified for intensive approach in
NRLM States
4447
4
Number of Blocks where intensive implementation has
started
4443
5
Number of Grampanchayat in which intensive
implementation has started
106012
6
Number of villages in which intensive implementation has
started
290967

16. SUB-SCHEMES
• Ajeevik grameen express yojana
• Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana
(MKSP):- To empower women in agriculture
• Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Progam:-To
promote start - up enterprises in rural areas.

17. National Rural Livelihood Project
• NRLP has been designed as a sub-set of NRLM to create ‘proof
of concept’, build capacities of the Centre and States and create
an enabling environment to facilitate all States and Union
Territories to transit to the NRLM.
• NRLP would be implemented in 13 high poverty states
accounting for about 90 percent of the rural poor in the country.
• Intensive livelihood investments would be made by the NRLP in
107 districts and 422 blocks of 13 states (Assam, Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya
Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal,
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu).

18. CRITICISM
• NRLM serves only those who are the part of SHG’s.
• There are lot of cases where SHG have been disintegrated or
taken over by elites among the poor.
• NRLM scheme should be very flexible even at the village
level.
• The design of NRLM looks far too academic and as top down
approach. This is the main reason for the failure of earlier
projects like IRDP and SGSY.

19. CASE STUDY
• Success Story of Smt Dropti Bai
Village: Devhara, Block Ghughari, District
Mandla (MP)

20. CONCLUSION
• The inspirational stories of undefeated spirit and of powerful
transformation will inspire poor people all over to join such
networks and become change agents in guiding an inclusive
society that recognizes and values the poor in their journey for
empowerment.

21. REFERENCES
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rural_
Livelihood_Mission
• http://www.aajeevika.gov.in/
• http://www.aajeevika.gov.in/nrlm-
repository/documents/case-studies