Lok Sabha Question No. 529 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-06
Subject: Urban Poverty Alleviation
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Raja Ram Singh

## NO. 529.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 529

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 06, 2025

## URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION

SHRI RAJA RAM SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Union Government has proposed to launch a new project on  urban  poverty  alleviation  as  a  pilot  project  from  1st  October  in twenty-five cities and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government has constituted any committee before launching the pilot project and if so, the recommendations of the said committee;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  survey  for  estimating urban  poverty  in  context  with  this  pilot  project,  if  so,  the  details thereof; and
- (d) whether  the  motivation  for  the  pilot  project  is  a  reflection  of  the increase  of  urban  employment,  inflation  and  price  rise  and  if  so,  the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI TOKHAN SAHU)

- (a): Yes, the pilot of the proposed New Mission on Urban Poverty Alleviation was  launched  with  effect  from  1st  October,  2024,  for  3  months  with  the preparatory period of 1 month in 25 cities with the financial outlay of Rs.180 Cr. The proposed Mission comprises of 5 components, namely, (i) Community-led Institution Development, (ii) Financial Inclusion and Enterprise Development, (iii) Social Infrastructure, (iv) Convergence, and (v) Innovative  and  Special  Projects,  aiming  to  address  poverty  alleviation  of urban  poor  households  with  focused  interventions  to  6  vulnerable  groups such  as  construction  workers,  transportation  workers,  gig  workers,  care workers, waste workers and domestic workers The list of cities is placed at Annexure-I.

- (b): Yes,  Ministry  of  Housing  and  Urban  Affairs,  MoHUA  had  constituted working groups committee, members of which were from civil society, State / local bodies, research organizations, Central Government etc. for identifying vulnerable groups as mentioned above.

The key recommendations focused on targeted interventions on key vulnerable  occupational  groups  such  as  formation  and  strengthening  their institutions, financial inclusion enabling social infrastructure and collaboration with various other ministries and line departments for accessing social security benefits.

- (c): The pilot  uses  base  data  of  National  Food  Security  Act,  2013  (NFSA), besides the data identified by States, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and in-line Departments such as data from Civil Supplies Department, Labour Department etc. for identification of urban poor.
- (d): The motivation for pilot project is enhancing opportunities for livelihoods of urban poor as per learnings from Deendayal Antyodaya YojanaNational  Urban  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM).  Under  DAY-NULM  1  crore urban  poor  households  were  brought  into  the  frame  of  Self-Help  Groups (SHGs) through institutional mobilization of which 90% are women members. Further, the Mission created 39.2 lakhs livelihoods through financial inclusion and skill training.

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## ANNEXURE-I REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (A) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 529 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2025

| S.N                 | State City         |
|---------------------|--------------------|
| 1                   | Assam Guwahati     |
| 2                   | Vijayawada         |
| Andhra Pradesh 3    | Vizag              |
|                     | Bhubaneswar        |
|                     | Puri               |
| Odisha 6            | Rourkela           |
|                     | Surat              |
|                     | Ahmedabad          |
| Gujarat 9           | Dahod              |
|                     | Lucknow            |
|                     | Agra               |
| Uttar Pradesh 12    | Varanasi           |
|                     | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Kerala 14           | Kochi              |
|                     | Bhopal             |
|                     | Ujjain             |
| Madhya Pradesh 17   | Indore             |
|                     | Chennai            |
| Tamil Nadu 19       | Tirupur            |
| 20 Tripura          | Agartala           |
| 21                  | Kolkata            |
| West Bengal 22      | Durgapur           |
| 23 Himachal Pradesh | Chamba             |
| 24 Mizoram          | Aizawl             |
| 25 Bihar            | Patna              |