TNSRLM

Tamil Nadu State Rural Livelihood Mission is implemented by the Government of Tamil Nadu from the year 2012-13. The primary objective of TNSRLM is to reduce poverty by enabling poor households to engage in gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment through livelihood interventions and facilitating access to financial and other services. This is sought to be achieved through building strong and vibrant institutional platforms of the poor and organising them into active Community Based Organisation for providing sustainable livelihood opportunities.

Mahalir Thittam, the precursor to TNSRLM promoted Women Self Help Groups of 12-20 women aged between 18 to 60 years who voluntarily came together to promote savings and thrift. TNSRLM in the state was fashioned on the core principles of the Vaazhndhu Kaattuvom Project to reach the poorest of the poor through creating institutions of the poor in the form of SHGs, PLFs etc., with a mandate to make livelihood interventions through DAY-NRLM scheme components and bank linkage for providing sustainable income. Through the participatory identification of poor (PIP) methodology the left-out poor in rural areas were identified and new SHGs were formed to cover the women from those families.

Activities under TNSRLM