Lok Sabha Question No. 4074 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-12
Subject: Employment for Urban Poor
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Pratima Mondal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4074

TO BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 12, 2019

## EMPLOYMENT FOR URBAN POOR

## NO. 4074. SHRIMATI PRATIMA MONDAL:

Will the Minister of HOUSING & URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether certain schemes are being implemented to provide employment to the urban poor in the country and if So, the details thereof, StatelUT-wise;
- (b) the amount of funds sanctioned, released, actual expenditure made and the targets achieved including the number of persons given employment, StatelUT-wise; and
- (c)
- whether the Government proposes to expand the scope of the said schemes and if SO, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

- (a) The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is implementing Deendayal Antyodya Yojana National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM), since 2014-15, to reduce poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful selfemployment and skilled wage employment opportunities, for improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basisThe Employment through Skill Training & Placement (EST&P) component of the Mission aims to provide skills to the urban poor to increase their income through structured and market-oriented

certified courses that can provide wage employment andlor selfemployment  opportunities which will eventually lead to better living standards and alleviation of urban poverty on a sustainable basis. Further, Self-Employment Programme (SEP) component focuses on financial assistance to individualslgroupsISHGs Of urban poor for  setting up gainful  self-employment ventures or micro-enterprises:

- (b) The funds are released to StateslUTs for   implementation of Mission as a whole and inter-Se allocation of funds under various component are made by the State Governments depending upon their  requirement A statement showing StatelUT-wise details of funds released by Government and utilised by StateslUTs under Mission, during FY-2014-15 to 2019-20 (as on 31.10.2019) is at Annexure-I.

A statement showing details of physical progress under Mission during FY 2014-15 to 2019-20 (as on

States/UTs 31.10.2019) is at Annexure-II:

- The Mission has been extended to all statutory towns in the
- country since February, 2016.

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Details   of funds released by Government  and utilisation of funds reported by States/UTs under DAY-NULM during 2014-15 to 2019-20 (as on 31.10.2019) as referred to part (b) of LSUQ 4074 for 12.12.2019.

| S: No.   | States/UTs        |   Funds Released* |   Funds Utilized |
|----------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|
|          | Andhra Pradesh    |            322.35 |           266.17 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |             19.92 |            15.75 |
| 3        | Assam             |             95.63 |            66.83 |
| 4        | Bihar             |            117.03 |           136.9  |
| 5        | Chhatisgarh       |            103.47 |            88.29 |
| 6        | Goa               |             11.65 |             7.71 |
|          | Gujarat           |            142.78 |           125.76 |
| 8        | Haryana           |             58.98 |            40.63 |
|          | Himachal Pradesh  |             27.33 |            23.83 |
| 10       | Jammu & Kashmir   |             31.18 |            19.1  |
| 11       | Jharkhand         |            135.34 |           117.67 |
| 12       | Karnataka         |            112.9  |            69.48 |
| 13       | Kerala            |            109.12 |            85.4  |
| 14       | Madhya Pradesh    |            224.08 |           182.59 |
| 15       | Maharashtra       |            372.4  |           278.65 |
|          | Manipur           |             17.78 |            10.35 |
| 17       | Meghalaya         |              5.99 |             5.3  |
| 18       | Mizoram           |             64.35 |            59.96 |
| 19       | Nagaland          |             33.18 |            29.64 |
| 20       | Odisha            |             90.49 |            79.13 |
| 21       | Punjab            |             50.33 |            39.67 |
| 22       | Rajasthan         |            170.95 |           133.99 |
| 23       | Sikkim            |              7.14 |             6.93 |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu        |            466.88 |           355.17 |
| 25       | Telangana         |            165.48 |           130.2  |
| 26       | Tripura_          |             24.73 |            18.42 |
| 27       | Uttar Pradesh     |            395.26 |           318.54 |
| 28       | Uttarakhand       |             34.54 |            25.31 |
| 29       | West Bengal       |            207.75 |           161.34 |
| 30       | & N Islands       |              1.06 |             0.05 |
| 31       | Chandigarh        |              7.84 |            10.56 |
| 32       | D & N Haveli      |              0.41 |             0    |
| 33       | Daman Diu         |              0.17 |             0    |
| 34       | Delhi             |             24.26 |             5.33 |
| 35       | Puducherry        |              7.73 |             5.77 |
|          | Total             |           3660.48 |          2897.81 |

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Details of   physical progress of States/UTs under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) during FY 201415 to 2019-20 (as on 31.10.2019).

| S. No.   | Parameters                                                                                                                |   Cumulative |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
|          | Number_of Self Help Groups(SHGs) formed                                                                                   |       466829 |
| 2        | Number of skill trained & certified candidates under Employment through Skill Training & Placement (EST&P)                |      1011941 |
|          | Number_of certified candidates_placed EST&P                                                                               |       557652 |
|          | Number of beneficiaries assisted for setting up Individual/ Group micro enterprises under Self Employment Programme (I&G; |       461994 |
|          | Number of SHGs disbursed loans under SHG- Bank Linkage programme                                                          |       571667 |