Bihar SULM
Objectives
The overall goal of the State Urban Livelihoods Mission is to support the urban poor in the given timeframe for attaining better living standards, amenities and
creating a friendly environment for people to live and work, in the urban areas of Bihar.
The following specific objectives of the mission are:
- To support the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to plan, build, operate, manage
and maintain basic urban infrastructure in the areas of skill training,
shelters home, etc.
- To support and make the urban areas a conducive place for the urban
poor to live and work with modern facilities and enable them to realize
their potential to contribute in the social, economic, and educational field;
- To aim at universal coverage of the urban poor for skill development and
credit facilities. It will strive for skills training of the urban poor for market-
based jobs and self-employment, facilitating easy access to credit.
- To build the capacity of the urban poor, their institutions, and the
machinery involved in the implementation of livelihoods and poverty
alleviation programmes through handholding support.
- To ensure availability and access for the urban homeless population to
permanent 24-hours shelters including the basic infrastructural facilities
like water supply, sanitation, safety and security.
- To cater to the needs of especially vulnerable segments of the urban
homeless like the dependent children, aged, disabled and recovering
patients, etc. by creating special sections within homeless shelters and
provisioning special service linkages for them
- To address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors by facilitating
access to suitable spaces, institutional credit, social security, and skills to
the urban street vendors for accessing emerging market opportunities;
and
- To motivate the urban poor to form their institutions and build their
capacity so that they can manage the external environment, access
finance, expand their skills and assets.
