Lok Sabha Question No. 628 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-11-28
Subject: NULM and SJRY
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 628

TO BE ANSWERED ON NOVEMBER 28, 2024

## NULM AND SJRY

## NO. 628.   SHRI SANJAY HARIBHAU JADHAV:

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

- the year when the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) and Swarn Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJRJ) were launched in the country;
- (b)   whether the purpose of both the above schemes is to create opportunities for skill development among the poor residing in the Urban areas by mobilising them and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)   the number of districts in the State of Maharashtra including Parbhani Parliamentary Constituency where the people have been benefitted with these schemes during the last five years;
- (d)  the impact of the benefits of these schemes on the lives of the people;
- (e) whether job opportunities have been generated under both the schemes, if so, the details thereof; and
- (f)   the other steps taken/being taken by the Government to improve the living standards of the people and to make it beneficial?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) & (b): Urban development, including urban poverty alleviation is a state subject and the implementation of schemes/programmes under this is the  responsibility  of  State/UT  Governments.  Ministry  of  Housing  & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) supplements the effort of State/UT by providing Central  Assistance  under  'Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  -  National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)'.

The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY), was launched in 1997  and  implemented  till  2013,  had  aimed  at  providing  gainful employment  to  the  urban  unemployed  and  underemployed  through setting up of self-employment ventures or provision of wage employment.  On  23 rd   September,  2013,  SJSRY  was  restructured  and launched as National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM). In February, 2016  the  Mission  was  renamed  as  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  National Urban Livelihoods Mission and extended to all the statutory towns in the country.

The 'Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)' has the objective of reducing poverty and vulnerability of employment  and  skilled  wage  employment  opportunities,  in  order  to improve  their  livelihoods  on  a  sustainable  basis,  through  building urban  poor  households  by  enabling  them  to  access  gainful  selfstrong grassroots level institutions of the urban poor.

- (c):  DAY-NULM  has  been  implemented  in  all  35  districts  of  Maharashtra including Parbhani Lok Sabha Constituency. Parbhani Constituency is made up of Parbhani District and part of Jalna District. During last five years there have been a total of 1,16,088 beneficiaries from the State of Maharashtra including 4209 beneficiaries from the Parbhani District who have been provided with skill training benefits.
- (d) to (f): NULM & SJSRY, both schemes created the opportunities for skill development  among  the  poor  residing  in  the  Urban  areas.  As  SJSRY was  till  2013,  Under  NULM  opportunities  created  for  urban  poor  by mobilizing them to make a Self Help Group. To provide employment/self-employment opportunities to the urban poor beneficiaries  under  Social  Mobilisation  and  Institution  Development (SM&ID),  Self-Employment  Programme  (SEP)  and  Support  to  Urban Street Vendors (SUSV) components of DAY-NULM. Total 24,93,189 job opportunities  have  been  generated  by  DAY-NULM  including  1,16,088 job opportunities in State of Maharashtra.

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