National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) and Sustainable Livelihood Development through Poverty Alleviation

From ancient time, human civilisation has been facing a lot of constraints and challenges in its sustainable developmental phase among which poverty seems to be the most disastrous one. India, as a second largest democratic country in the world, is also facing such problem which seems to be one of the vital barriers for inclusive growth as well as to compete with other developed and developing countries in several dimensions. Unfortunately, even after seventy years of independence, a large percentage of Indian population belonging under Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. In this context, different research studies evident that the rural India is suffering a lot which is supposed to be more severe than that of the urban areas of India. Therefore, special attention is to be assured to eradicate poverty through which livelihood of general populace can be developed and in this context, rural poor should especially be addressed. Respecting this issue and welcoming inclusive growth for socio-economic excluded poor people mainly from rural boundary, different developing and underdeveloped countries time-to-time declared various promotional and developmental programmes. In this context, National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), implemented by the Central Government of India has become the World’s largest poverty alleviation scheme. Hence, it is very essential to visualise the practical application and acceptance of the welfare prospect of the very Mission in rural vulnerable populace. This effort can be materialised successfully with the measurement of the sustainable livelihood promotion as introduced by the said scheme for the marginalised rural poor attached with a socio-economic backward area. In the present paper, an attempt has been framed to enumerate the literature on the issues like poverty, livelihood promotion of vulnerable sections of society, different promotional schemes including National Rural Livelihood Mission and their roles in promoting the said sections towards sustainable livelihood promotion.