Mepma

Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas:

Department Schemes:

• Employment through skill training and placement(EST&P)
• Self Employment Programme (SEP)
• Social Mobilisation and Institutional Development(SMID)
• Support to urban street vendors(SUSV)
• Shelter for urban homeless(SUH)
• Capacity building and training programme(CB&T)
•  Innovation and Special Projects (ISP)

Activities.

• Provide an asset to the urban poor in the form of skills for sustainable livelihood.
• Financial assistance to individuals / groups of urban poor for setting up gainful self-employment also support Self Help Groups (SHGs) of urban poor to access easy credit from bank and avail interest subsidy on SHG loans.
• Building Community Institutions – Self Help Groups & Their Federations.
• Universal Financial Inclusion.
• Revolving Fund Support to SHGs & Their Federations.
• City Livelihood Center.
• Training for Community Institutions, SHGs and Their Federations.
• Provides a source of self-employment, and acts as a measure of urban poverty alleviation.
• Ensure availability and access of the urban homeless population to permanent shelters including the basic infrastructure facilities like water supply, sanitation,safety and security.
• Provide high quality technical assistance in the field of livelihood promotion and urban poverty alleviation.
• Implement a time-bound programme to demonstrate an approach that is likely to have wide implications for sustaining urban Poverty alleviation efforts.

Website of the Department

(State) http://tmepma.cgg.gov.in

(Central) http://nulm.gov.in/