National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), is a poverty alleviation project inplemented by ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. This scheme is focused on promoting self-employment and organisation of rural poor.
The basic idea behind this programme is to organize the poor into self-help groups and make them capable for self employment. In 1999, after restructuring Integrated Rural Development Program, Ministry of rural development launched Swarna Jayanti Gramin Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) to focus on promoting self employment among rural poor. SGSY has been remodelled to form NRLM thereby plugging the shortfalls of SGSY programme.
This is one of the largest initiatives of the world to improve the livelihood of the poor. This programme is supported by World Bank with credit of 1 billion US dollars. The scheme was succeeded by Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana on 25 September 2015.
