Social Mobilisation and Institution Development (SM&ID) is one of the major components of:

Correct — A, Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana. Social Mobilisation and Institution Development is one of the named components of DAY-NULM, the National Urban Livelihoods Mission, and it is the component that does the organising work on which everything else in the mission rests: bringing the urban poor into self-help groups, federating those groups into area-level and city-level federations, and building the institutional capacity that lets them access bank credit, training and entitlements. The mission's logic is that livelihood support delivered to scattered individuals does not stick, whereas support delivered through durable community institutions does — the same insight that underlies the rural mission, DAY-NRLM. The other three options belong to different problems entirely: the National Urban Digital Mission is about digital governance platforms for cities, AMRUT is about water supply, sewerage, septage and urban green spaces, and the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan is about strengthening panchayati raj institutions. None of them has a component by this name.

• (b)National Urban Digital Mission — Concerned with building shared digital infrastructure and platforms for urban local bodies — a governance-technology mission, with no social mobilisation component.
• (c)Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation — An infrastructure mission: water supply, sewerage and septage management, storm-water drains and urban green spaces. Its components are engineering heads, not community organisation.
• (d)Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan — The most plausible wrong option, because it is genuinely about institutions — but panchayati raj institutions, which are constitutional bodies of local government, not community organisations of the poor. It is also rural, while SM&ID is a component of the urban livelihoods mission.

The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana runs in two arms: DAY-NRLM in rural areas under the Ministry of Rural Development, and DAY-NULM in urban areas under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Both are built on the self-help group model — organise the poor first, then layer credit, skills and enterprise support onto those groups.

DAY-NULM's components fit together in a sequence, which is why SM&ID comes first. Social Mobilisation and Institution Development forms the groups and federations; Employment through Skill Training and Placement provides skilling; Self-Employment Programme channels subsidised credit to individual and group enterprises; Support to Urban Street Vendors addresses a large informal occupation; and the Scheme of Shelters for Urban Homeless provides shelter. The urban mission descends from the older Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana, restructured as NULM in 2013 and renamed DAY-NULM in 2016. The self-help group federation model itself traces back to state experiments — Kudumbashree in Kerala and the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty in undivided Andhra Pradesh — which is the lineage worth citing in a longer answer.

• DAY-NULM is the urban arm, under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; DAY-NRLM is the rural arm, under the Ministry of Rural Development.
• SM&ID covers self-help group formation, area-level and city-level federations, and institutional capacity building.
• Other DAY-NULM components include skill training and placement, self-employment, support to street vendors, and shelters for the urban homeless.
• NULM replaced the Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana in 2013 and was renamed DAY-NULM in 2016.
• AMRUT covers water supply, sewerage and septage, storm-water drains and urban green spaces — infrastructure, not mobilisation.

• Choosing Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan because it contains the word institutions. Those are panchayats, not SHG federations, and the scheme is rural.
• Assuming any urban mission will do. AMRUT is infrastructure and NUDM is digital governance.
• Confusing the rural and urban arms of DAY. SM&ID as named here is a DAY-NULM component.

As a component-to-scheme recall, which is the standard way scheme knowledge is tested — the component name is usually distinctive enough to identify the parent if the mission's logic is understood.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  DAY-NULM is implemented by which ministry?

  • (a)Ministry of Rural Development
  • (b)Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
  • (c)Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
  • (d)Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

  Answer(b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs — DAY-NRLM is the Rural Development Ministry's.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  AMRUT primarily addresses which of the following?

  • (a)Self-help group formation among the urban poor
  • (b)Water supply, sewerage and urban green spaces
  • (c)Digital governance platforms for cities
  • (d)Strengthening panchayati raj institutions

  Answer(b) Water supply, sewerage and urban green spaces — it is an infrastructure mission.