LIFE MISSION is one of the four missions under Nava Kerala Mission, the flagship project of the Kerala Government led by Pinarayi Vijayan. The mission aims at ending the housing crisis faced by the state. In Kerala, a huge number of families are landless and lack proper housing facilities. So LIFE (Livelihood Inclusion and Financial Empowerment) has introduced a comprehensive housing scheme for all the homeless and landless in the state. In addition to providing safe housing, LIFE assures financial empowerment by delivering livelihood means as well. Several social security schemes are implemented among the beneficiaries of LIFE and skill development programmes are designed to help them equip themselves to find new jobs.
Major objectives of LIFE Mission are:
- Assuring the secure feeling of an own home
- Helping to make houses for those who have land
- Assuring homes in apartments for 1,58,000 landless people
- Geriatric care
- Palliative care
- Empowering financially by providing means for livelihood.
The goal of the mission is to deliver houses for approximately 4.30 lakh homeless in the state, out of them 1.60 lakh landless families were excluded from other housing schemes in the past, in 5 years. Moreover LIFE converges many services including Primary Health Care, Geriatric Supports, Skill Development and provision for financial services. The poorest sections of the society including the coastal population, plantation workers, and those who stay in temporary shelters in the government lands are given the top priority in the project. So far more than 2 lakhs newly built houses have been handed over to the beneficiaries under LIFE. The final stage of the mission is under progress and it will cover the entire population of beneficiaries as planned in the beginning.
