Publication: Transforming Rural Non-Farm Livelihoods: The NRLM Journey
Date
2020-03
ISSN
Published
2020-03
Author(s)
Gupta, Arshia
Nair, Vinod
Abstract
Rural India is primarily an agri-based
economy. Over-dependence on agriculture has meant declining
percapita rural income which has gradually initiated a shift
towards the non-farm sector. This transition from
agriculture to non-farm sectors is considered an important
source of economic growth. DAY-NRLM, which has been
instrumental in reaching out to sixty-eight million rural
poor women, witnessed a similar shift towards
non-agricultural sources of income. This trend encouraged
DAY-NRLM to adopt dedicated entrepreneurship promotion
measures. Even though, NRLM is more than a decade old,
enterprise development programmes have been initiated only
in the last five years. These initiatives are expected to
gain pace and momentum through National rural economic
transformation project (NRETP), which aims to identify
existing enterprises with growth potential and provide
dedicated services to help them scale-up.
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Citation
“Gupta, Arshia; Nair, Vinod. 2020. Transforming Rural Non-Farm Livelihoods: The NRLM Journey. South Asia Agriculture and Rural Growth Discussion Note Series;No. 6. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34723 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”