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New Delhi : Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), Ministry of Rural Development (MORD) , and Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on October 16, 2018, for establishing Roshni – Centre of Women Collectives led Social Action.
Roshni is technically and financially supported by UNICEF India serving as a technical support unit at national level for DAY-NRLM and is embedded in the Department of Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, according to a PIB release.
DAY-NRLM aims to reach out to 8-10 crore rural poor households (based on Socio- Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011) in a time bound manner, and, stay engaged with them till they come out of abject poverty. It envisions breaking the self-perpetuating cycle of malnutrition- illness- out-of-pocket expenditure for treatment-poverty through its savings and enterprise approach and layering of Food, Health, Nutrition and WASH (FHNW) interventions through Self-help groups (SHG) and their federations.