Tamil Nadu, MP, UP, AP, Chattisgarh lead in implementing urban poverty alleviation programmes

Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh are ahead of other States in addressing urban poverty during the last three years i.e 2014-17.

Tamil Nadu is in the forefront in assisting urban poor with subsidized loans for self-employment through setting up of individual and group micro enterprises and formation of Self-Help Groups under DeenDayalAntyodaya Yojana-NULM (DAY-NULM) and Uttar Pradesh led in skilling urban poor. Madhya Pradesh stood second in skill training and providing loans support.

Details of performance of leading States under different components of DAY-NULM are as below:

State No of urban poor given
skill training No of beneficiaries
gven subsidized loans Self-Help Groups
formedTamil Nadu

1,04,448

30.258 24,245Madhya Pradesh 1,17,133 26,558 8,973Uttar Pradesh 1,89,831 14,138 15,954Andhra Pradesh 45,236 15,617 12,278Chattisgarh 30,022 8,185 14,393West Bengal 64,277 2,418 10,871Karnataka 38,007 8,799 5,021Maharashtra 29,317 8,202 6,921Bihar 29,762 890 8,390Telangana 12,546 3,182 10,097Gujarat 12,090 2,216 7,186

National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) was launched in September,2016 with the objective of reducing the poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities for improvements in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis. NULM which was launched in 790 cities and towns in 2013 was subsequently extended to all the statutory 4,041 cities and towns in February, 2016.

During 2014-17, 8,07,187 urban poor were given skill training, 1,35,158 beneficiaries were given subsidized bank loans for setting up own enterprises and 1,62,285 Self-Help Groups have been formed for taking up income augmenting activities with the support of bank loans.

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