NEW DELHI: After launching employment schemes for rural India, the Centre now plans to create job opportunities for the nearly 100 million urban poor. The UPA-II has proposed a National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) to address issues related to urban poverty like skill upgradation, entrepreneurship development and providing credit at affordable rates. The mission, to be launched in the 12th Five Year Plan, will replace the Swarna Jayanti Sahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) started in 1997. "We want to build the Mission with an open architecture so that it can have the flexibility of using multiple approaches and adjusting to the varied conditions prevalent in different parts of the country," Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja said here. The NULM will help the urban poor in utilising the opportunities of wage employment and self employment created by economic growth in the urban areas, she said. All programmes and policies for the poor in urban areas will be converged under the NULM so that benefits can reach the targeted section, the minister added.