CITY LIVELIHOOD CENTRES (CLCs), Haldia Municipality

Address of CLC:

Haldia Municipality, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bhawan, Administrative Building, City centre, PO- Debhog, Purba Medinipur, PIN-721657

Office location:

Inside the Haldia Municipality Complex and adjacent to Debhog Post Office

Mission of CLC:

Mission of City Livelihood Centre is to provide information and service to City dwellers in a structured and organized manner and provide a sustainable income to poor service.

Vision:

Vision of City livelihood Centre is to become a leading agency working to ensure secure and dignified lives to communities dependent on labour.CLC seeks to provide a platform combining direct service delivery, advocacy, research and technical support in advancement of its work on issues of urban poor. CLC intends to provide a broad range of services directly benefiting the urban poor households. Typically, these services will include registration and issuance of Photo ID, skill training and placement, legal aid, collectivization, social security, financial services and family support. The centre will also seek to design new services and interventions for the urban poor.

Objective:

CLC as one of the key sub-components of NULM will have the following objectives.

Nature of CLC:

CLC shall be set up as a permanent service providing centre offering a gamut of fee based services to all residents of the area by engaging local urban poor for the ostensible reason of generating sustainable livelihoods. For financial sustainability of the CLC, the organization / Agency managing the centre shall focus on delivery of services for which there are local needs and for which the local urban poor either possess necessary skill sets or likely to develop one such in the near future. It shall be the sole prerogative of Municipal Corporation / Municipality to take final decision on the spectrum of services that shall be rendered by CLC.

Administration of CLC:

The activities of CLC shall be closely monitored and supervised by two committees.