The National Rural Livelihoods Mission’s (NRLM) primary goals typically consist of:
Alleviation of Poverty: NRLM aims to alleviate poverty by offering rural households alternatives for sustainable livelihoods. Through a variety of measures, it works on boosting income-generating activities, encouraging entrepreneurship, and generating job possibilities.
The mission places a strong emphasis on social mobilization and capacity building for rural areas. It encourages the creation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and offers training, capacity-building, and skill-development initiatives to empower rural households, particularly women, with information and skills for improving their standard of living.
Financial Inclusion and Credit Access: NRLM places a strong emphasis on encouraging financial inclusion and ensuring rural households have access to credit. It offers financial aid, credit connections, and microfinance services, and it promotes the development and growth of SHGs.
Livelihood Diversification: The mission promotes several income-generating activities in industries such agriculture, livestock, fisheries, non-farm enterprises, and skill-based trades in order to encourage livelihood diversification. In order to generate chances for sustainable livelihoods, it encourages the growth of market connections, value chains, and enterprise promotion.
Convergence and cooperation: In order to effectively utilize resources and support livelihood initiatives, NRLM supports convergence and cooperation with various government programs, schemes, and stakeholders. To increase the impact of livelihood programs in rural areas, it promotes cooperation with other departments, institutions, and agencies.
