To empower women and make them self-reliant, Haryana State Rural livelihood Mission (HSRlM) would be implemented in another 25 blocks of the state in 2017-18. With this, the Mission would cover 68 blocks of Haryana.
Chief Secretary, DS Dhesi, presided over a meeting of the executive committee of HSRlM, here on Friday.
During the meeting, Dhesi said the State Government had carried out credit linkage of 2,975 Self Help Groups (SHGs) in 2016-17 against the Central Government target of 2,500 SHGs, an achievement which has been lauded by the Central Government. As many as 3,550 SHGs and 150 village organisations were formed in 2016-17, he said.
He said that the Deendayal Upadhyaya-Grameen Kaushalya Yojana is being implemented by the Mission to impart skill training and provide placements to youths.
Under this scheme, poor youths in rural areas are imparted skill training free of cost by 11 project implementation agencies. Under this scheme, the Central Government has set a target to provide training to about 32,687 youths. The Haryana State Rural livelihood Mission has so far provided training to 24,000 youths, out of which 5,237 have been provided employment, Dhesi added.