The Corporation will facilitate formation of livelihood groups comprising widows and single women and offer them jobs.
At the council meeting on Monday, Mayor Saidai Duraisamy asked councillors to identify beneficiaries of livelihood groups to use the skills acquired under National Urban Livelihood Mission to improve civic services.
The skills acquired by the people will reduce poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households by helping them gain self-employment or skilled wage employment opportunities. The civic body will use services of such trained people to improve livelihoods on a sustainable basis.
Over 1,000 slums in the city will be covered in the drive to identify beneficiaries and build strong grassroots level institutions for the poor. The mission will also address livelihood concerns of thousands of urban homeless by facilitating access to social security and skills, officials explained. The civic body will also continue to employ people under Swarna Jayanthi Scheme for conservancy operations and mosquito control. Workers employed under the programme get a wage of Rs. 295 per day.
