The government has made substantial changes in the Guidelines for implementation of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) to benefit more and more urban poor and allowing those in vulnerable vocations to form groups for availing loans at subsidised interest rates.
The changes in operation guidelines of the DAY-NULM were approved at a meeting of the National Governing Council of the mission, an inter-ministerial body chaired by Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), M Venkaiah Naidu. As per the new guidelines, banks have now been allowed to directly accept applications from the beneficiaries for extending subsidized loans for setting up individual and group enterprises under the Self-Employment Programme component of DAY-NULM dispensing with the need for sponsorship by concerned urban local bodies. One bank will be designated as the Nodal Agency for each state to coordinate with all other banks to increase banking linkages for loan support under this component.
Naidu also relaxed the norms for formation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) of urban poor by allowing up to 10 members to form a group in hilly tracts and tribal areas as against the earlier norm of 20 members. Men involved in vulnerable occupations like sanitation workers, rag pickers, rikshaw pullers are now allowed to form such Groups who would be eligible for bank loans.
Naidu further said that the performance against targets has been satisfactory but there is need for States to do more. As against the target of formation of 70,062 Self-Help Groups, actual performance has been 1,05,958. Under Self-Employment Programme component, 94,549 beneficiaries have been given subsidized bank loans for setting up individual and group enterprises against the target of 90,062. A total of 4,36,110 urban poor have been imparted skill training during the last two financial years and another 1,38,385 have so far been skilled during the current fiscal.
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