PUNE: National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) is the biggest programme for women empowerment in India, stated a statement issued by the government. At present there are 3 crore women, who are members of Self Help Groups (SHG) and in the next 5 to 7 years , seven crore women households will be covered under it. At present bank linkages to NRLM are to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore, which will be expanded to one lakh crore in the next five years in the Central and Eastern India as 80% of the current loan disbursement is concentrated in the four southern states.
A release Issued by the ministry states that National Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (NRLPS) has a strategy to partner with various stakeholders like NGOs, CSOs to enhance the pace of the program delivery. NRLM can draw from these learning and use the knowledge created in the course to reach out to the marginalized communities of rural India.
National Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society has already partnered with PRADAN, a reputed NGO as national support organization on Livelihoods, and entered into an MOU with them recently. Digital GREEN works with partners to effectively exchange relevant livelihood practices among rural communities using locally produced videos and mediated dissemination. Incubated as a research project in Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team in 2006, digital GREEN spun off as an independent non-profit charitable trust in 2008.