NEW DELHI: Govt will soon roll out the next version of the livelihood mission for urban poor and vulnerable sections with focus on six groups, including domestic, construction, sanitation, and gig workers.
Under the scheme, govt will facilitate eligible individual urban poor or a group of such persons to avail microcredit of up to Rs 4 lakh and Rs 20 lakh, respectively, at a subsidised interest of 5% to start enterprises; create social infrastructure like labour chowk; and provide innovation grant for purposes such as buying sanitation machineries.
To prepare the ground for the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM 2.0), the Centre will carry out a first of a kind pilot exercise to identify urban poor and for right targeting of govt schemes to improve their earning and living.
As per a plan, the exercise across 25 cities will involve enumeration of around 50,000 households, and each of the identified poor families will get a unique ID card.
Sources said the ID cards will be similar to the ones issued to beneficiaries under Kutumba, Samagra Samajik Suraksha Mission and Parivaar Pehchan Patra initiatives of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana govts. Such cardholders in these statesget benefits of different welfare schemes. The centre’s plan is also to identify the poor and their needs.
Officials said the focus will be to ensure that the identified households get welfare and social security schemes offered by the Centre and state govts.
The pilot exercise will be carried out in cities such as Agra, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Kolkata, Durgapur, Tirupur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram. It will take reference data from National Food Security, e-Shram and state govts’ registries.
Sources said the enumeration will be done collecting 50-odd details of households, such as income of family members, migration, and assets.
They added that the exercise will help identify common interest groups (CIGs) by engaging self-help groups, college students and other trained persons. “This socio-economic enumeration will help govt to identify schemes such groups can avail for better income. The exercise will continue to capture the dynamic data about poverty,” a source said.
TOI has learnt that during the exercise, each of these 25 cities will prepare a city livelihood action plan.