Chennai:
Tamil Nadu government has launched an ambitious programme
of providing social security to the urban poor and the underprivileged sections
under the Tamil Nadu Urban Livelihood Mission.
Official sources in Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA) said that the Rs 200 crore mission would
focus on providing social security pension, special homes for differently
abled, children homes, old age homes, counseling centres and livelihood support
centres.
The focus would be on vulnerable sections of the society,
which include the aged, street children, migrant labourers and mentally
challenged who are exposed to high degree of social risk like crime and
violence.
Officials said the aim of the mission is to cover all
below poverty line families in the urban local bodies over the next five years.
The beneficiaries under the scheme would be identified by
adopting the methodology done by Pudhu Vazhvu Project of Rural Development and
Panchayat Raj Department.
The list would be updated regularly on an annual basis
besides a periodic survey would be carried out to identify street children,
pavement dwellers and migrant labourers to rehabilitate them.
The funds for TNULM would be made available under Swarna
Jayanthi Shahara Rozgar Yojana, Rajiv Awas Yojana and Jawaharlal Nehru National
Urban Renewal Mission and other ongoing schemes related to respective
departments.
Interestingly, the focus of the mission would on six
major activities. These include skill training for wage employment and self employment and entrepreneurship programme,
social sector interventions in health, education and sanitation, housing, basic
amenities and services like water and sanitation and social security and
safeguards besides social mobilization and capacity building. Officials said
the approach is to provide livelihood to the urban poor.
Sources said that a enumeration on homeless in Madurai an Coimbatore has
already begun besides validation of urban poor is going on
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