The Manohar Lal Khattar Government will set up city livelihood centres in Haryana to offer a gamut of services to the residents besides providing employment opportunities to the urban poor.
Under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), which aims to improve the living standard of urban BPL (below poverty line) families, Haryana Government has decided to open City Livelihood Centres (CLCs) at 23 urban local bodies including district headquarters towns or towns with more than one lakh population.
There are around 4.24 lakh urban BPL families in Haryana, as per Government’s last survey.
The CLCs to be established in public private partnership mode is aimed at providing a platform combining direct service delivery, research and technical support in advancement of various works on the issues of urban poor in Haryana.
These centres are proposed to be linked with various Government departments to provide needed services such as property tax collection, electricity bills distribution, birth certificates among others to the residents.
However, it would remain the sole prerogative of concerned civic body to take final decision on the spectrum of services to be rendered by CLC in its jurisdiction. Also, the activities to be carried out by CLCs will be monitored and supervised by two committees constituted by respective municipalities.
As per the proposal chalked out by the Haryana Government, the services to be provided by CLC could be varied in nature depending on local needs, requirements, expectations and choice of the local residents. As a part of its fee based services, such centres could supply skilled manpower to city dwellers as per demand.
The CLCs would also be authorized to obtain direct work orders or bid for annual maintenance contracts, municipality contracts, housing associations service needs like plumbing, electricity, carpentry, dispatch of electricity bills, property bills among others.
CLCs tie up with malls or retail outlets is also recommended for placement of urban poor youth. As CLC’s objective would be to provide a broad range of services directly benefiting the urban poor households, the State Government has planned to include registration and issuance of photo ID, skill training and placement, legal aid, social security, financial services and family support at such centres.
These centres would also market the products produced by self help groups or urban poor families. Among other works that would be conferred to the CLCs include providing information on skill training and employment, organizing entrepreneurial development training programmes for SHGs, urban poor and educated unemployed youth, carrying out random survey of needs and requirements of manpower in demand.