National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM)
DAY-NULM, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs commenced in the state in May 2015 with Kudumbashree as nodal agency. The scheme aims at reducing the social, economic and residential vulnerability of the urban poor. Prior to this, Kerala was the only state with a federated network of SHGs under the umbrella of a mission, working towards social inclusion and livelihoods. As the first phase the implementation of the scheme was initiated in 14 selected Urban Local Bodies which was scaled up to all 93 ULBs in November 2016. The fund sharing pattern of the scheme is 60:40 for Central-State share respectively. The state has been ranked one among the 1st three best performing states in the SPARK ranking system for the last 6 consecutive years.
The effort in the State has been to build on the resilience of the community network that has already been developed through nearly two decades of functioning of the Kudumbashree mission in association with local governments.
Under the Social Mobilisation & Institution Development component of NULM, there are 27475 urban SHGs encompassing 3.57 lakh families. Revolving fund support has been extended to 44064 SHGs @ Rs. 10,000 and 3360 ADSs @ Rs. 50,000. 14 City Livelihood centers for marketing the goods and services of the urban poor have been established. Through Employment through Skills Training & Placement component, 26853 candidates have been enrolled in skill training of which 22149 candidates certified and 15080 candidates placed in wage employment. The Self Employment Programme aided in supporting 5923 Individual Micro enterprises and 1293 group enterprises in addition to facilitating linkage loans to 50433 SHGs. Under the Shelter for Urban Homeless component 23 of the 41 shelter projects sanctioned has been made functional. ID cards issued to 19067 Street vendors and 6615 street vendors identified in a survey under the Support to Urban Street Vendors component. 38458 street vendors supported with PMSVANidhi loans.
- sanitation infrastructure and services are improved.
- SWM infrastructure, processes, and systems are improved.
- Urban sanitation and used water infrastructure, management, and systems are improved.
- IEC interventions and institutional capacities are strengthened.
The focus is on both solid and liquid waste management. In SWM, in Kerala, door to door collection, processing of waste at community and regional levels, specialised waste management – for electronic waste, sanitary waste, C&D waste etc are the challenges and objectives that are being tackled. Biomining of landfills is another priority. As far aas sewage and sullage are concerned, the State has a very robust coverage of septic tanks, but does not have commensurate FSTPs. Setting up treatment facilities including subterranean biodigesters and mobile FSTPs are being earnestly attempted, notwithstanding the challenge of population density, topography and entrenched local resistance and agitation.
