RASHTRIYA AAJEEVIKA MISSION

About: 

• Official name: Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
  
  
• Implemented by: Ministry of Rural Development.
  
  
• Coverage: It is being implemented across the country in a mission mode.
  
  
• Mission objective: Organizing the rural poor women into Self Help Groups (SHGs), and continuously nurturing and supporting them to take economic activities so that they come out of abject poverty.
  
  
• Sub-schemes under DAY-NRLM:
  • Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs), enables a trainee to take bank credit and start his/her own Micro-enterprise.
    
    
  • Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) for facilitating the rural poor for setting up of micro Enterprises.
    
    
  • Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY) to facilitate transport facilities in the rural areas which also provides self employment opportunities to the rural poor.