Chief Minister Hemant Soren today inaugurated the National Urban livelihood Mission (NUlM) at Ranchi and shared the Government’s vision for providing means of self-sustenance to the youths of Jharkhand.
The mission has replaced Swarna Jayanti Rojgar Yojna and aims to reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions of the poor.
“Government is committed for providing avenues of employment to unemployed and that is why this (NUlM) scheme has been launched. Youths of the State link themselves with avenues of self-employment as it is important for overall development of the State,” said Soren.
Notably, the CM also communicated State government’s resolve to set up nursing colleges for males.
Under the Mission, City livelihood Centres (ClCs) will be established in Mission cities to provide a platform whereby the urban poor can market their services and access information on self-employment, skill training and other benefits.
Funding will be shared between the Centre and the States in the ratio of 75:25.
“Government is making youths of the state employable by providing them training. This project is important for the State as it will fast track development of the State,” added Minister Urban Development, Suresh Paswan.
NUlM will target the urban poor who are occupationally vulnerable for Employment through Skills Training & Placement (EST&P).
The Mission will focus on providing assistance for development / upgrading of the skills of the urban poor so as to enhance their capacity for self-employment and salaried employment.
It intends to provide training to the urban poor as per the skill demand from the market, so that they can set up self-employment ventures or secure salaried employment.
“There is no dearth of workers in Jharkhand but there is need to hone their skills. NUlM will impart training to such young boys and girls and will provide employment opportunities to them,” maintained Soren.
The mission would also aim at providing shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner.
In addition, the Mission would also address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors also by facilitating access to suitable spaces, institutional credit, social security and skills to the
urban street vendors for accessing emerging market opportunities.
About 25,000 youths have been selected to link with the mission and they will be trained in 15 trades to encourage them to take self-employed.
The event was attended by Director SKIPA, Sudhir Prasad; Secretary Urban Development, Ajay Kumar Singh and other senior officials of the State Government.