Urban Poor to Benefit from New ₹180 Cr Mission Covering 25 Cities, 6 Worker Groups
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07/02/2025
The pilot of the proposed New Mission on Urban Poverty Alleviation was launched with effect from 1st October, 2024, for 3 months with the preparatory period of 1 month in 25 cities with the financial outlay of Rs.180 Cr. The proposed Mission comprises of 5 components, namely, (i) Community-led Institution Development, (ii) Financial Inclusion and Enterprise Development, (iii) Social Infrastructure, (iv) Convergence, and (v) Innovative and Special Projects, aiming to address poverty alleviation of urban poor households with focused interventions to 6 vulnerable groups such as construction workers, transportation workers, gig workers, care workers, waste workers and domestic workers The list of cities is as below:
| S.No. | State | City |
| 1 | Assam | Guwahati |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | Vijayawada |
| 3 | Vizag | |
| 4 | Odisha | Bhubaneswar |
| 5 | Puri | |
| 6 | Rourkela | |
| 7 | Gujarat | Surat |
| 8 | Ahmedabad | |
| 9 | Dahod | |
| 10 | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow |
| 11 | Agra | |
| 12 | Varanasi | |
| 13 | Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 14 | Kochi | |
| 15 | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal |
| 16 | Ujjain | |
| 17 | Indore | |
| 18 | Tamil Nadu | Chennai |
| 19 | Tirupur | |
| 20 | Tripura | Agartala |
| 21 | West Bengal | Kolkata |
| 22 | Durgapur | |
| 23 | Himachal Pradesh | Chamba |
| 24 | Mizoram | Aizawl |
| 25 | Bihar | Patna |
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, MoHUA had constituted working groups committee, members of which were from civil society, State / local bodies, research organizations, Central Government etc. for identifying vulnerable groups as mentioned above.
The key recommendations focused on targeted interventions on key vulnerable occupational groups such as formation and strengthening their institutions, financial inclusion enabling social infrastructure and collaboration with various other ministries and line departments for accessing social security benefits.
The pilot uses base data of National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), besides the data identified by States, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and in-line Departments such as data from Civil Supplies Department, Labour Department etc. for identification of urban poor.
The motivation for pilot project is enhancing opportunities for livelihoods of urban poor as per learnings from Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). Under DAY-NULM 1 crore urban poor households were brought into the frame of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) through institutional mobilization of which 90% are women members. Further, the Mission created 39.2 lakhs livelihoods through financial inclusion and skill training.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Shri. Tokhan Sahu, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
