Abstract
National Rural Livelihood mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation programmeintroduced by Government of India (GOI) to provide sustainable livelihood to rural poor. Theprogramme adopts a mixed theory approach (both cyclical perspective and individual deficiencytheory) in addressing poverty. The present study empirically examines the effect of mixed theoryapproach on the objectives of NRLM. Data are collected from 200 beneficiaries (of NRLM)through a structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood securityindex (LSI) is constructed to capture the livelihood securities of the respondents taking habitatsecurity, health security, food security and economic security into account. The study finds thatdue to the introduction of mixed theory approach, beneficiaries are lacking behind the facilitiesprovided under the programme. The study further suggests for adopting a single theoryapproach (cyclical perspective) alone to address poverty.
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