About Us

The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India launched in June 2011. NRLM focuses on promoting self-employment and organization of the rural poor. The women in rural areas are mobilized into SHGs (Self Help Groups) groups and their capacity is being built for taking up income generating activity. To implement the scheme in the state of Meghalaya, an autonomous society — Meghalaya State Rural Livelihoods Society (MSRLS) was instituted in 2011.

MSRLS is registered under the Society Act, 1983. MSRLS was promoted by the Government of Meghalaya under the Community and Rural Development Department to serve a vision to “Redress poverty in the rural areas by identifying the poor and vulnerable, empowering them and providing them livelihoods opportunity”.

NRLM organizes all poor households into aggregate institutions of the poor that provide them a forum. These platforms ‘of the poor’ and ‘for the poor’ partner with local self-governments, public service providers, banks, private sector and other mainstream institutions to facilitate delivery of social and economic services to the poor.