Conducting
training sessions for surveyors to collect the data by using Tablets
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How the Idea of micro planning
initiative came into reality.
It all started when the
Hon’ble Prime Minister announced the Sansad Adarsh Gram
Yojana (SAGY) in October 11,
2014 to make Indian
villages into smart villages. This scheme proposes that
during the tenure of the present Parliament, each
of the 795 MPs will choose and work towards making 2
villages in their constituency as "Adarsh Gram" (ideal village). The
scheme envisages that the MP will provide
leadership to converge all central and state Government schemes
for the purpose of ushering in the developments in the Adarsh Gram.
Immediately
following announcement of the scheme, the Trusts
wrote to all the MPs, offering
help in community
mobilization and micro-planning for preparation of Village
Development Plans (VDPs) under
the scheme. The offer was
to ensure that this was done through competent partner
organizations located close to
the chosen villages.
The Trusts
received responses from various MPs; including Hon’ble MP of Vijayawada-Mr.
Kesineni Srinivas and Hon’ble MP of Bengaluru (Rural)-Mr. Veerappa Moily.
To begin with, the Trusts
conducted a detailed micro-planning activity in Dec-2014 in Gollamandala - the
village adopted by Mr. Kesineni Srinivas under the SAGY. The MP was impressed
with the quality of the mobilization and the micro-planning exercise. He
requested that he would like the Trusts to help him repeat the exercise for the
remaining 264 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in his constituency as well. He went
personally to meet the Managing Trustee as well as the Chairman to communicate
his desire to collaborate with the Trusts at a larger scale. This presented a
challenge as well as an opportunity for Trusts to scale this kind of operation.
The Trusts began its activities in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, by initiating an
assessment of the needs of each village at household level. The Trusts took up
this opportunity to design a program called as Micro-Planning Assessment (MPA).
With the help of a technical partner, Social Cops, and an implementing partner,
Centre for Peoples Forestry (CPF), a comprehensive survey was conducted in the
rest of the 264 GPs of Vijayawada Parliamentary Constituency (VPC). This MPA
was done digitally with the support of more than 1000 local volunteers who were
trained on how to use tablets and smart devices.
The task
involved gathering detailed data from over 2.5 lakh households in these 264
villages. The MPA was conducted over a period of three months resulting in the
development of VDPs for each of the 264 GPs.
Micro planning initiatives in numbers
villages
covered
|
265
|
households
surveyed
|
250,000
|
Total
population
|
Above
10,00,000
|
data
points collected
|
100
mil.
|
surveyors
trained
|
1,200
|
|
Using PRA
tools and social mapping to understand and micro planning the village
|
Legislator’s words on
Micro Planning initiative
“With the
launch of these 264 Village Development Plans for Vijayawada
Parliamentary Constituency, we have redefined
participative
democracy and given our citizens real say in development. In this unprecedented
effort, over 1 million people were mobilized
for the creation of development plans. What we have achieved today is
a big step in our mission to make
Vijayawada a model constituency”
Using PRA tools
and social mapping to understand and micro planning the village
Way forward
After the preparation of
Village DevelopmentPlans through micro planning initiative,they were then presented to executives and decision makers at
various levels including the CM’s office, the planning department
and district administration. The Trusts also came forward
to facilitate the development of these villages with the help of various state
departments. For that an MoU
was signed on 24th August, 2015, between the Government of Andhra Pradesh and
Tata Trusts to develop 265 GPs as ‘Adarsh
Grams’.
Krupakar
reddy, Tata trusts
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