NRLM Mission

To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor.

Key Features of NRLM

  • Social Inclusion and institutions of the Poor.
  1. Universal Social Mobilization
  2. Promotion of Institutions of the poor
  3. Training, Capacity building and skill building
  4. Revolving Fund and Capacity Subsidy
  5. Provision of Interest Subsidy
  • Livelihoods
  1. Infrastructure creation and Marketing support
  2. Skills and Placement Projects
  3. Rural Self Employment Training Institutes(RSETIs)
  4. Innovations
  • Convergence and Partnership
  1. Convergence
  2. Partnerships with NGO and other CSOs
  3. Linkages with PRIs
  • Sensitive Support
  1. External Sensitive Support Structures
  2. Technical Support
  3. Monitoring and Learning
  4. Funding Pattern
  5. Phased Implementation
  6. Transition to NRLM
  7. Agenda before NRLM

NRLM Guiding Principles

  • Poor have a strong desire to come out of poverty, and they have innate capabilities
  • Social mobilization and building strong institutions of the poor is critical for unleashing the innate capabilities of the poor.
  • An external dedicated and sensitive support structure is required to induce the social mobilization, institution building and empowerment process.
  • Facilitating knowledge dissemination, skill building, access to credit, access to marketing, and access to other livelihoods services underpins this upward mobility.

NRLM Values

The core values which guide all the activities under NRLM are as follows:

  • Inclusion of the poorest, and meaningful role to the poorest in all the processes
  • Transparency and accountability of all processes and institutions
  • Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions in all stages – planning, implementation, and, monitoring
  • Community self-reliance and self-dependence

Progress Intensive Blocks

Number of Districts
13

Number of Grampanchayat in which intensive implementation has started
4953

Number of villages in which intensive implementation has started
6782

Number of Blocks in which intensive implementation has started
95

Number of households mobilized into SHGs
248811

Number of Self Help Groups promoted
30987

Number of SHGs provided Revolving Fund
24660

Amount of Revolving Fund disbursed to SHGs(in Lakh)
2499.82

Number of SHGs provided Community Investment Fund
10937

Amount of CIF disbursed to SHGs(in Lakh)
5401.73

Number of Village Organizations promoted
2243

Number of Cluster Level Federation
111