The Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu chaired the third Governing Council meeting of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) here today, to deliberate upon the steps to further strengthen the Mission at different levels. The Minister of State for Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri Rao Inderjit Singh and Madhya Pradesh Urban Development and Housing Minister Smt. Maya Singh also attended the meeting.Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu expressed satisfactory while reviewing the physical and financial progress under DAY-NULM during the last three years and said that the focus should be given more on skill development which enables in self-employment. As against the target of formation of 1,05,000 Self-Help Groups, actual performance has been 1,90,266. Under Self-Employment Programme component, 1,78,896 beneficiaries have been given subsidized bank loans for setting up individual and group enterprises against the target of 1,25,062. A total of 8,37,764 urban poor have been imparted skill training, during the last three financial years. 666 shelters for urban homeless have been so far made functional.