ALLEVIATION OF URBAN POVERTY THROUGH DAY-NULM SCHEME: A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO GUWAHATI CITY

Urban poverty is becoming a significant area of concern. Despite the better production and marketing facilities of urban areas and the higher consumption capacity of urban populations the urban poor are growing more rapidly than the rural poor and more emphasis should be given to reducing urban poverty. The government of India has finally come up with innovative solutions to creating choices for the urban poor through various solutions and multiple dimensions. One of such program is DAY-NULM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission). In Assam DAY-NULM is operating under ASULM (Assam State Urban Livelihoods Mission Society). This scheme aims to reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self employment opportunities, providing shelters equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner, also 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. Thus the present paper is an attempt to study the implementation and progress of the scheme since its inception in Guwahati city