The Local Self-Government department has allocated funds for projects to eradicate extreme poverty for construction of houses under the LIFE project as well as projects to ensure livelihood for those identified as part of the survey on extremely poor families in Kerala.
While an amount of ₹33.12 crore has been allocated for construction of houses for the extremely poor families which were found to be homeless and an amount of ₹16.43 crore has been allocated for the project to ensure livelihood for those in need of the same.
A total of 1,03,099 individuals from 64,006 families were identified as part of a ground-level survey conducted in the initial stages of the State government’s wide-ranging poverty eradication programme. Food, health, shelter, and income were the four distress factors considered in identifying the extremely poor families.
