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The Government of India has launched The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) under the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). The Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor, enabling them to increase their household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial and public services. In West Bengal, NRLM has been launched as ANANDADHARA by Hon’ble CM on 17th May, 2012 The agenda is to mobilize the rural poor and vulnerable people into self- managed, federated institutions and support them for livelihood collectives. In addition, the poor would be facilitated to achieve increased access to their rights, entitlements and public services, diversified risk and better social indicators of empowerment. To further these objectives, WBSRLM (West Bengal State Rural Livelihoods Mission), a registered society under the Society Registration Act 1860 has been formed by the Government of West Bengal to implement the National Rural Livelihood Mission in the state. Mission & Vision “To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor.” ANANDHARA aims to ensure that at least one member from each of the identified poor rural household is brought under the Self Help Group (SHG) network in a time-bound manner, thereby benefitting the poor in a number of ways.

Background Government of India has restructured the centrally sponsored anti-poverty scheme of Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) and launched it as the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), to be implemented on a “mission mode” across the country. This envisages i)  shift from the present allocation based strategy to a demand driven strategy enabling the states to formulate their own livelihoods-based    poverty reduction action plans, ii)      to focus on targets, outcomes and time bound delivery, iii)   continuous capacity building, imparting requisite skills and creating linkages with livelihoods opportunities for the poor, including those emerging in the organized sector and iv)    increase the availability of credit to the poor for micro-economic development. NRLM, called as Aajeevika by Govt of India, is implemented with the support from dedicated and sensitive support structures to be developed at state, district and sub-district level and it has adopted a phased implementation strategy to reach all districts and blocks by the end of 12th Five Year Plan in order to ensure involvement of quality social capital in the implementation process. This flagship programme has subsequently been launched as ANANDADHARA on 17th May, 2012 by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal. Keeping the vision in view as well as the Framework of NRLM prepared by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, and the West Bengal State Rural Livelihoods Mission has been formed and registered as a Society under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961. Salient features under ANANDADHARA •	Universal Social Mobilization: •	Promotion of Institutions of the poor: •	Universal Financial Inclusion: •	Capacity Building and Training: •	Revolving Fund and Capital Subsidy: •	Provision of Interest Subsidy: •	Livelihood promotion: •	Infrastructure creation and Marketing support: •	Skills and Placement Projects: •	Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs): •	Convergence and Partnerships: