Punjab State Urban Livelihood Mission (PSULM)

Punjab State Urban Livelihood Mission desires to enable the urban poor predominantly the poorest of the poor to eradicated earth and susceptibility in a sustainable manner and improve their quality of life in urban areas. PSULM address urban Poverty related issues in 169 Urban Local Bodies in Punjab State.

PSULM whishes to develop a data base of the vulnerable population of urban poor who do not have a house, either self-owned or rented, but instead live and sleep on pavements, at parks, railway stations, bus stand, places of worship, outside shops and factories, at constructions sites, under bridges, in Hume pipes, on dividers, road junctions and all other similar places under the open sky or places unfit for human habitation. This also includes people who live in temporary structures without walls, under plastic sheets or thatched roofs on pavements, parks or other Common Places.

PSULM as per the guidelines issued by DAY-NULM under Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India is implementing "Scheme of Shelter for Urban Homeless" component by providing shelter with all essential services to the Urban Homeless in 167 Urban Local Bodies in Punjab State. To assess the actual number of homeless, no of shelter required for Homeless in each urban local Body, and for rehabilitation of homeless, it is proposed to conduct a GIS based survey of homeless in all Urban Local Bodies in Punjab State.