Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company Ltd. (GLPC)

(A Government of Gujarat Undertaking)

Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company (GLPC) is the executive arm of Mission Mangalam, the implementation agency for NRLM. It has been registered under The Companies Act, 1956.

GLPC works through strategic partnership between large industries and SakhiMandals / Self Help Groups / Producer Groups / Service Groups / Collectives of the poor, through decentralized Micro Enterprise Ventures. The promoting companies / entrepreneurs redesign the process where intensive tasks as job-works are undertaken by Self Help Groups in their respective homes or villages as self-employment activities. Main objectives of GLPC are

• Empowering the Poor by organizing them into SHGs/Federations/other Collectives.
• Empower the poor through ensuring access to Financial Services.
• Augmenting existing livelihoods and enhancing incomes.
• Explore livelihood opportunities through newer ventures in rural service sector.
• Developing Inclusive Value Chains.

Vision and Mission of GLPC

Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are found to have not only positively impacted the social capital and economic empowerment of the members but also generated positive social externalities. The vision of the Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company could be stated as :

"Create a socio-economically developed Gujarat through inclusive growth strategies for empowering the underprivileged members of vulnerable communities/groups, resulting in them leading a dignified life."

The GLPC, while working towards the challenging vision of empowerment of poor women, has to ensure realization of this vision through participatory means and by convergence of prevalent government developmental schemes. The mission of the company could be stated as:

"We strive to serve the underprivileged women as well as members of vulnerable communities/groups in the state by organizing and capacitating their Groups and creating sustainable livelihoods. We ensure convergence of prevalent development programmes and schemes as well as forge partnerships with other non-government organizations and corporate houses for inclusive growth and the empowerment of the members of the groups served. In order to provide quality member-services, we strive to remain financially sound and secure. We will work towards establishing ourselves as a unique organization with deep abiding human values and maintaining the same."

List of Allocated Centers:

Sr. No	Parliament Constituency	District	Address
1	Himatnagar	Himatnagar	Pratt Muller Distributors Ltd., DDU-GKY Centre, Mehsana, TALUKA-IDAR, SABARKANTHA, Himatnagar, Gujarat - 383430. Mobile : 7073869221 Email-ID : pradeepsingh.pratt@socet.edu.in