Lok Sabha Question No. 1304 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-03
Subject: People Covered under DDU-NRLM
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Ananta Nayak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1304 ANSWERED ON 03/12/2024

## PEOPLE COVERED UNDER DDU-NRLM 1304. SHRI ANANTA NAYAK:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENTbe pleased to state:

- (a) the details of various categories of poor people covered under DeenDayalUpadhyay  National  Rural  Livelihood  Mission  (DDUNRLM);
- (b) whether  the  Government  is  planning  to  expand  the  ambit  of NRLM by bringing household helpers, construction workers and sanitation  workers  under    the  ambit  of  NRLM  and  if  so,  the details thereof;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  started  the  second  phase  of National  Urban  Livelihood  Mission  (NULM)  and  identified  the cities in which it is likely to be launched;
- (d) whether the Government has identified/started the process of identification of eligible beneficiaries in the selected cities and if so, the details thereof and if not, the time by which it is likely to be done; and
- (e) whether the Government proposes to bring the beneficiaries of NRLM  under the ambit of other welfare schemes of the Union Government and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. CHANDRA SEKHAR PEMMASANI)

- (a) Under the DeendayalAntyodayaYojana National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY NRLM), data pertaining to caste category is maintained only for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Caste. The groups having fifty percent or more members of  a  particular  caste  category  are  marked  as  a  group  of  that

particular  category.  So  far,  10.05  crores  of  households  have  been mobilised  into  90.87  lakh  Self  Help  Groups.  As  per  the  report available  on  lokos.in,  the  category-wise  details  of  groups  as  on 28.11.2024 is as under:

|   S.No. | Category             |   No. of SHGs |
|---------|----------------------|---------------|
|       1 | Scheduled Caste      |       2011504 |
|       2 | Scheduled Tribe      |       1228555 |
|       3 | Other Backward Caste |       3514738 |

- (b) Under  DAY-  NRLM,  all  eligible  rural  poor  households  are identified and mobilized into Self Help Groups (SHGs). The eligible households  include  all  households  with  one  or  more  deprivation, automatically  included  households  as  per  Socio  Economic  and Caste  Census  (SECC)  2011  and  all  eligible  households  identified through  a  'participatory  identification  of  poor'  (PIP)  process  and validated  by  gram  sabhaconstitute  the  NRLM  target  group.  Once identified, all eligible households are mobilized into SHGs.
- (c) & (d) The Government has started socio economic profiling of urban poor.
- (e) DAY  NRLM  facilitates  the  beneficiaries  to  access  various schemes of Government of India, the details of few of them are as under:
- (i) During 2024-25, 4.93 crore SHG members have been enrolled under Pradhan MantriJeevanJyotiBimaYojana (PMJJBY), 6.14 crore under Pradhan MantriSurakshaBimaYojana (PMSBY) and 7.92 crore beneficiaries have been covered under Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (PM JAY)/State specific health insurance.
- (ii) Prime Minister Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises  (PM  FME)  Scheme  of  the  Ministry  of  Food  Processing and Industries (MoFPI)  is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of  Food  Processing  Industries  and  Ministry  of  Rural  Development through respective State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) for its seed capital component. An amount up-to the extent of Rs. 40,000/is  being  provided  by  MoFPI  to  the  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs)/  SHG members  who  are  doing  food  processing  activities.As  on  31 st

October  2024,  2,51,193  SHG  entrepreneurs  have  been  supported with seed capital of Rs. 831.27 crore.

- (iii)   DAY-NRLM is also converging with ParamparagatKrishiVikasPariyojana  (PKVY)  being  implemented  by the  Ministry  of  Agriculture  &  Farmers  Welfare   with  the  aim  to provide input support to Mahilakisans for preparation of land, supply of  liquid  bio-fertilizers,  seed  preparation,  procurement  of  organic seeds,  creation  of  azola  pits,  and  support  in  disease  and  pest control;  setting  up  of  Custom  Hiring  Centres  (CHC)/  tool  banks; creation of cattle shed/ poultry shed/ pig sty; packing, labelling and branding of organic products; soil testing; organic certification; and exposure  visits  and  training  of  women  farmers  and  community resource persons.
- (iv) Necessary  facilitation  is  done  for  access  of  benefits  of  the schemes  implemented  by  the  Department  of  Animal  Husbandry  & Dairying  and  Fisheries  which  includes  providing  milch  animals  to poor landless farmers, widows and other vulnerable sections of the society,  support  the  productivity  enhancement  of  small  ruminants and poultry, developing micro level infrastructure at the village and the household level, promotion of fisheries Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and skill training and entrepreneurship promotion.

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