National Rural Livelihood Mission ( NRLM)

1. NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD
MISSION (NRLM)
Presented by MRIDULAT
B2020MH019

2. NRLM
• The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) program was implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development
in 2010 , Renamed as DAY-NRLM in 2016
• Investment support by the World Bank, the Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional
platforms of the rural poor,
• Address the rural poverty in India
• Empowering and enabling poor households to gain access for self-employment and other Employment
Opportunity
• To improve livelihood and sustainability
• To Enable access to formal credit
• To enable individual’s access to public services and other entitlements

3. NEED OF NRLM
• RBI report of 2011-12 (India, 2012) stated that around 25.70% or
216658 people in rural India are still under below poverty line
• Despite of decrease in poverty in India by 23.4 % from 1993 -94 to
2011-12
• Poverty in rural areas 25.7% remains higher than the national average
21.9% - National Poverty Estimates 2011-12
• To Ensure sustainable livelihood
• Address the poverty issue in the grass route level
• Intervention at different levels in the State, District and Block level
• Mobilizing the rural poor households by the end of year 2023 -24

4. COMPONENTS OF
NRLM
Social mobilization,
through community
institution
Capacity building Financial inclusion
Livelihood
promotion
Convergence

5. • BUDGET ALLOCATION ; SOURCE : Ministry of Rural Development
IMPLEMENTATION STRTERGIES
• Reformation of Institutions
• Demand driven strategy
• Result orientation
• Skill and capacity building
• Innovations
• Close monitoring:

6. OUTCOMES
12.8% increase in index of willingness among women in the state
to pursue institutional response to community problems
20.4% increase of self-employment livelihood options
13.6 % increase in women’s participation in the workforce
19.7% of female labour force participation rate in rural India

7. LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION
VULNERABILITY REDUCTION LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT EMPLOYMENT CONTINUM
Article 38 of DPSP welfare of people by securing and
protecting their social economic justice and
minimizing inequalities in income status facilities or
opportunities”
The National Rural Employment Guarantee act of 2005 Article 41 of DPSP
““Right to Work” and right to “Public Assistance”
equality and economic justice through NRLM Imparting of knowledge, skills technology placement /mentorship support to explore various job
opportunities.
various social entitlements in the form of, PDS,
MGNREGS, Social insurances, Health services
Strengthening the employment generation and poverty
reduction
Bring the family and the individual out of poverty and
achieve higher levels of income
Ex. SHG member Rameshwarama, Veeranjanya
Sangam SHG in 2002
Ex. Ms. Nirala Laharighat developmental block in
Marigon district
Ex. SHG members of Mithila, Shilpsangh area promoting
madhubani art

8. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
SOCIAL POLICY NRLM( important poverty alleviation and livelihood promotion program which ensures the
welfare of the citizens )
THEORY OF CHANGE (TOC)
• Different interventions leading to specific developmental change
• Establishment of SHG’s to Promote a social change (higher education/ increased health /financial inclusion/
empowerment )
MODELS OF SOCIAL PLOICY V/S NRLM :
• The Institutional Redistributive Model of Social Policy
• Based on the principle of social equality and justice through redistribution of resources
• Equal opportunity especially to the vulnerable section of society through mobilising various resources
EX. Establishment of Lok Adhikar Kendra by SHG members in the district of Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh

9. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
• Eradication of Poverty
• Impact Evaluation examined the impact of NRLM over 9
states concluded that, 2.5 years of membership in an
SHG increased the total household income by 19% and
savings by 28% (Ajini Kochar, 2020)
SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT
• HEALTH AND NUTRITION-reduce the infant and
maternal mortality rates
• Self-help groups have been established to address this
issue through programs /acts implemented
• Ex. “Poshan maah” introduced by MOHFW in the state
of Madhya Pradesh (1.32 Lac Nutri-gardens in the
community)
• LIMITATIONS TO PLAN EFFECTIVE
STRATERGIES
 low productivity /primary sector activity areas resulting
in low absorption of technology
 Failure to identify poorest or the most vulnerable in the
community
 Confined to micro finance units rather than scaling up
the enterprises
 Improper utilization of budget, for example (KUMAR, 23
July 2021) as Rs.2 crore was approved as a relief
package of COVID-19 in the year 2020-21 yet the ticket
size of the loan taken by the SHG members were only 1.8
Crore