Kudumbasree Mission -Kerala

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Inspiring National Rural Livelihood Mission
Playing important role in women empowerment.

Introduction:

An initiative for poverty alleviation, this model wasLaunched on May 17th 1998. It is now one of the largest women empowerment related movement in Asia, having a total participation of about 37.8 Lakhs.

This mission is a joint initiative of the Government of Kerala and NABARD. It defines poverty as the deprivation of basic rights and money. By its attempt to bring poor women in the state within its range, Kudumbasree is now present ineach & every Gram Panchayat,every welfare and development activity is related and dependent on kudumbasree to provide the community interface. This mission is mainly centred on providing enterpreneurial,marketing and management opportunities to poor women and thus making them self dependent in financialterms through vegetable farming and selling/marketing of farm products.

Proving inspirational for National Rural Livelihood Mission:

A recentvisit by the officials of NRLM to Kerala , the role of Kudumbasree was found to be very important in women empowerment and successful running of Panchayati Raj Institution. Also,they found the various possibilities of diversification in the functioning of this mission to some other sectors such as service sector,handicraft etc It was decided after the visit that the role of this mission ,would be studied in detail as the increasing and effective female participation has made the Panchayati Raj more transparent and democratic. This observation /will be done because the synergy generated through this mission is being considered as a replicable model for the NRLM at the country level.

Importance from examination point of view:

Useful for essay.
2 Marker - Kudumbsree Mission.
Question related to socio - economic development.

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