national rural livelihood mission (nrlm) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by ministry of rural development, government of india. this scheme is focused on promoting self-employment and organization of rural poor. the basic idea behind this programme is to organize the poor into shg (self help groups) groups and make them capable for self-employment. in 1999 after restructuring integrated rural development programme(irdp), ministry of rural development (mord) launched swarnajayanti grameen swarojgar yojana (sgsy) to focus on promoting self-employment among rural poor. sgsy is now remodeled to form nrlm thereby plugging the shortfalls of sgsy programme. this scheme was launched in 2011 with a budget of $5.1 billion and is one of the flagship programmes of ministry of rural development. this is one of the world's largest initiatives to improve the livelihood of poor. this programme is supported by the world bank with a credit of $1 billion. the scheme was succeeded by deen dayal antyodaya yojana on 25 september 2015.