Context:
Recently, the government has launched the ‘SARATHI’ App for Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
Relevance:
GS II: Government Policies and Interventions
Dimensions of the Article:
- SARATHI App
- About Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission:
SARATHI App
Development:
- Developed by the Ministry of Rural Development in collaboration with The/Nudge Institute.
Purpose and Features:
- Role in Graduation Program:
- Aims to ensure timely, effective, and efficient implementation of the Graduation program, which targets the most vulnerable populations.
- Effectiveness and Efficiency:
- Enhances the effectiveness of work across multiple levels.
- Reduces cognitive and administrative burdens.
- Transparency:
- Ensures transparency in the implementation and monitoring of the program.
- Risk Mitigation:
- Helps in mitigating the risk of leakage of consumption and livelihood support provided to the target households.
About Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission:
- It is a centrally sponsored programme, launched by the Ministry of Rural Development in June 2011.
- To eliminate rural poverty through the promotion of multiple livelihoods and improved access to financial services for the rural poor households across the country.
- To reach out to all rural poor households and impact their livelihoods.
The objective of the Mission is to promote sustainable livelihoods for the poor such that they come out of poverty. The institutions of the poor are intended to facilitate
- access to formal credit;
- support for diversification and strengthening of livelihoods;
- and access to entitlements and public services.
Functioning:
- It involves working with community institutions through community professionals in the spirit of self-help which is a unique proposition of DAY-NRLM.
- It impacts the livelihoods through universal social mobilization by inter alia organising one-woman member from each rural poor household into Self Help Groups (SHGs), their training and capacity building, facilitating their micro-livelihoods plans, and enabling them to implement their livelihoods plans through accessing financial resources from their own institutions and the banks.
Implementation:
- It is implemented in a Mission mode by special purpose vehicles (autonomous state societies) with dedicated implementation support units at the national, state, district and block levels, using professional human resources in order to provide continuous and long-term handholding support to each rural poor family.
