National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), Government of India in 2013 by replacing the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY).
The NULM focuses on organizing urban poor in their strong grassroots level institutions, creating opportunities for skill development leading to market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment venture by ensuring easy access to credit.
The Mission is aimed 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.
As of January 2019,
Under the Mission, there are 1144 shelters are operational in the country for urban homeless.
Out of 18.26 lakh identified street vendors, 9.13 lakhs vendors have been issued the ID cards.
A network of 1,187 Skill Training Providers and 6,136 training centers across the country has been built to train youngsters and impart job relevant skills in them.
City Livelihoods Centers (CLCs) established under the Mission help to organize the informal hyper-local services sector at the Urban Local Body (ULB) level. Self-employed and freelancing service providers such as electricians, carpenters, plumbers, painters, tailors, tutors etc. are registered at the CLCs and customers can access these services by calling the CLC. More than 350 CLCs have been made operational across the country.
To facilitate inter-state ranking of States/UTs/ULBs performance in a transparent manner and to foster a spirit of competition among them a ranking method christened as SPARK (Systematic Progressive Analytical Real Time Ranking) was introduced in 2017.
