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National Urban Livelihoods Mission Empowers Women Self Help Groups

Source:Indian Express ↗

हे का महत्त्वाचे आहे

The article highlights the critical intersection of urban poverty alleviation and women empowerment through government schemes like DAY-NULM, making it core to GS Paper 2 governance and social justice syllabus.

सारांश

An editorial evaluation of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) scheme, emphasizing its significance in uplifting women through Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and tackling urban poverty.

मुख्य मुद्दे

  • DAY-NULM plays a pivotal role in poverty alleviation and skill development in urban areas.
  • Empowerment of women through Self-Help Groups (SHGs) fosters financial inclusion and grassroots entrepreneurship.
  • Urban livelihoods schemes require scaling up to address the unique challenges of rapid urbanization and informal labor.

संबंधित स्थिर संकल्पना

Welfare Schemes and Social Justice

What are the core components and sub-schemes of DAY-NULM?

  • SM&ID: Social Mobilization: Organizing urban poor into Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and federations.
  • EST&P: Skill Training: EST&P provides market-oriented training for urban youth and workers.
  • SEP (Individual/Group): Self-Employment: SEP offers subsidized loans to individuals and groups for micro-enterprises.
  • HUS & SUSV: Vending and Shelters: Support for street vendors and construction of urban homeless shelters.

आंतर-विषय नमुने

  • Urban Livelihoods + Informal Labor Codes

    Rapid urbanization creates severe informal labor vulnerabilities, connecting urban livelihoods missions directly to labor code implementations and municipal governance reforms.

DAY-NULM's credit linkage and interest subvention mechanisms frequently appear in matching-list prelims questions.

संबंधित PYQ · 3

संबंधित PYQ · 3

  • 2015MainsGS2

    The Self-Help Group (SHG) Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP), which is India's own innovation, has proved to be one of the most effective poverty alleviation and women empowerment programmes. Elucidate.

  • 2020MainsGS2

    Micro-Finance as an anti-poverty vaccine, is aimed at asset creation and income security of the rural poor in India". Evaluate the role of the Self Help Groups in achieving the twin objectives along with empowering women in rural India.

  • 2021MainsGS2

    Can the vicious cycle of gender inequality, poverty and malnutrition be broken through microfinancing of women SHGs? Explain with examples.