In a bid to advance the employment ratio of the country Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs tied-up with UrbanClap, an online service aggregator, to offer employment opportunities for urban poor skilled under Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).
With every day the level of population is increasing as more and more people flocking to the cities in search of better livelihood. NULM extended the beneficiaries of urban poor to include the homeless street vendors who are always overlooked in government programmes. This program also aims to provide shelter equipped with necessary services to the urban homeless in step by step manner. This programme also supports women empowerment.
National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) was introduced by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) in September 24, 2013 replacing the previous Swarna Jayanti Shahari RozgarYojana (SJSRY). Reducing poverty level of the urban poor households by enabling them to access productive self-employment and better livelihood was the core objective behind this initiative. According to the sources, this tie-up will assure a minimum monthly income of Rs. 15000 for electricians, plumbers and carpenters. The coverage might get broadened to take in families of disadvantaged groups like SCs, STs, women, minorities, disabled etc. subject to a utmost of 25 percent of the above urban poor population.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri said, “The MoU will lead to enhancing the employment of those being skilled in high demand services under DAY-NULM.” According to the latest official statement of HUA, more than 35% of those skilled people under DAY-NULM have found employment after their training period.
Under the MoU signed for 5 years with UrbanClap, the ministry of HUA will broadcast the details of those trainings under DAY-NULM with UrbanClap. UrbanClap will rack up demand for domestic services and the urban poor trained under DAY-NULM in 16 cities such as- Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad among others. Besides, the Housing Minister asked UrbanClap to provide services to all the 106 cities that have population of five lacs and above and the state capitals.
Under this mission City Livelihood Centres (CLCs) were founded in several cities to provide a platform through which urban poor can showcase their services and access required information on self-employment, trainings and other employment updates. This particular mission will focus on providing assistance for development/upgrading the skills of the urban poor in that they could improve their ability for self-employment as well as salaried employment. NULM counts on 6 pillars for institutional development that would deliver comprehensive success to the programme.
The six pillars are-
1. Formation of Self-help groups (SHGs).
2. Universal financial inclusion.
3. City Livelihood centres.
4. Capacity building and training.
5. Self-employment programme and
6. Support to urban street vendors (USV).
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