Orange City second in State in NULM implementation in 2018-19
   Date :18-Jun-2019
 
Staff Reporter;
 
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) administration has a reason to smile. For, in the year 2018-19, it has stood second in the State of Maharashtra in implementation of National Urban Livelihoood Mission (NULM), which has been renamed as Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana. Latur has topped the chart among the urban local bodies in Maharashtra with total 154.18 points, while Nagpur is at second position with 140.15 points. The performance was considered mainly on three parameters -- self-employment programme, social mobilisation and institution development, and employment through skill training and placement. As per the official report, Nagpur has scored 134.66 points as against Latur’s 74.44 points in the third parameter of employment through skill training and placement.
 
Dr Ranjana Lade, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, told ‘The Hitavada’ that NMC had done well in skill training and was able to establish linkage with industries for placement of the trained manpower. Besides, in social employment programme, Nagpur (145.78 points) was ahead of Pune (18.78 points), Navi Mumbai (83.17 points), Pimpri-Chinchwad (0.15 points), and Greater Mumbai (2.99 points). In social mobilisation and institution development also, Nagpur was ahead of Greater Mumbai, Pune, Navi Mumbai, and Pimpri-Chinchwad. “It is because of several initiatives we took silently in equipping especially women and establishing linkage between the self-help groups and banks. Financial literacy camps also have yielded positive results,” Dr Lade said. Besides, under NULM, NMC is providing shelter for urban homeless. At present, there are five shelters in the city.
 
These include one under the flyover in front of Ganesh Mandir Tekdi, another in Guru Ghasidas Samaj Bhavan in Sakharkar Wadi in Dipty Signal area; one more in Library and Samaj Bhavan in Mathmohalla in Indora, another in Buty Kanya Shala in Sitabuldi, and still one more in NMC’s Primary School in Hansapuri. These five shelters put together have 220 beds.
 
At present, between 154 and 201 homeless people are being benefited by the shelters. NMC has drawn up plans to increase the number of beds in Buty Kanya Shala and Indora Mathmohalla shelters to 50 each. For the purpose, proposal for construction of Buty Kanya Shala shelter was approved on June 1, 2017. But, it took May 4, 2018, for NMC to issue work order for the work. At present, Dr Lade said, the construction of the shelter has been completed up to plinth level. The work order for Indora Mathmohalla shelter was issued on March 31, 2018 though the project was approved on June 1, 2017. Now, the constuction of the shelter building upto the first floor has been completed. One more proposal for construction of 50-bedded shelter at Lade Shala was under consideration, and the file in this regard has been forwarded to Zone No 10 (Mangalwari).