JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

DACEE

“DAILY REPORT”

Submitted to: Dr. (Prof) Nasra Shabnam

Submitted by:

Ramsha Nusrat

M.Sc Development Extension , I Semester

Roll number: M3522083

DAY 1
It was the first day of our field work. Today's assignments were:
1. To develop the route map from Jasola metro station to community in
Jasola gaon
2. Entering the community and acquainting ourselves with community
people.
We were supposed to take keen observations for two days on both sides of
roads while moving in Jasola gaon either on foot, cycle or e rickshaw while
carefully noting down all the landmarks and also meeting
local/community/political leaders in the community. Our supervisor Nasra
ma'am introduced us to the community. From there we started exploring
roads and lanes of the community while mapping as well. We noted some
landmarks like Mandir, the community centre and some government and
private schools. We noticed the poor hygienic condition of all lanes and
roads. Most of the jhuggis were poorly built with almost no ventilation.
Sanitation facilities in almost every community cluster was very very poor.
Despite these poor living conditions among these people,people in every
cluster live in unity. We enquired about their Sarpanch and we went to his
home. His name was Jaggan; we were told his wife that he is not home and
hopefully we can meet him on Sunday. She didn't want to give his number or
take our number to inform us about his arrival. We are hopeful to meet him
on Sunday.
We introduced ourselves to some children and asked about the neighbour
relation in every cluster, we got to know everyone here lives with love and
they are great friends with each other and do almost everything together
which we found very heartwarming. Even in these difficult situations these
people have found a way to support Each Other emotionally and are thankful
to God that they have something to eat even if it's not enough. We noticed
almost every member of the community was violating covid-19 protocols.
When asked almost everyone said Corona is just a hoax and it cannot affect
them. They seems not to care. It seemed like all these people had same
opinion about everything. We also met cluster leaders, all of them were very
cheerful and really angry with their elected leaders. They agreed to talk to us
and promised to introduce us to other cluster members. When asked if they
are satisfied with their life surprisingly all of the 3 cluster leaders replied
cheerfully 'YES' indicating they are very much happy and would not like to
change anything about their lives except the fact that they don't want their
children to leave the same life as they lived.

CONCLUSION: people of community and community clusters had same

thinking. Cluster leaders are hopeful of their condition to change in future
and a working on Children's education irrespective of their gender.
Surprisingly all of the people which we communicated with had almost the
same thinking about Corona,Healthcare facilities, elected leaders and local
leaders. All these people have made peace with their living and social
economic conditions and most of them dream to change these in future.

At the end of the day, I learnt even in harsh living conditions where it seems
like this place cannot be the path of India's capital or promised elected leaders
may don't even know that they exist;these people have hope in education.
These people are standing not just for themselves but with each other as well.
 DAY 2
Today was the second day of our field work. Today's assignment was to:
1. Meeting local leaders as well as Locol people too and observing
their living conditions including their kitchens, toilets and
bathrooms.
2. Observing their cultural and political views.
3. Develop an understanding about the main problem of residing
people in small and large clusters.
Yesterday after standing 8 hours in the community, we developed an
understanding already by observing how these people live. Today, we got to
know more about talking in detail about how they spend their day, what
problems faced by living in semi pakka or kutcha jhuggis, about the head of
the family and children in the house. We found most women were home
while their husbands are fathers and old enough sons are not home. Some of
those women worked as a maid for stitched clothes but most of them were
unemployed.
Surprisingly unemployment was not an issue for most of the women but all of
them complain about low-income that their husband or son make and how
difficult it is for them to 'get by' in that amount. In Jagganwadi Colony, there
are about hundred jhuggis with different rents. Rent depends upon the
condition of roof and walls of Jhuggi. Rent was distributed in the range
between rupees 2000 to 5000. Their Jhuggi had only one room; they made
their own Kitchen in front of the houses and per 10 to 12 jhuggies, 2 toilets
and one bathroom were allotted. Needless to mention toilet and bathroom
stained and also were in very poor conditions. People who lived there were
mainly Muslims and Hindus. They live in peace,harmony and love and shares
common problems. On asking about relations with one another all of them
agreed having great relations with one another. When I asked them about
Corona it seem like all of these people had one theory in mind that Corona is
nothing; they all were unaware of how it spreads and how it cure and about
its prevention. Surprisingly 2-3 people told me that Corona happens because
of inadequate sunlight and people living in buildings are the ones who get
infected. They all had the same thinking that we are already living in poor
hygienic conditions. We are immune to almost everything so we can't have
coronavirus aur if coronavirus came here it did nothing to any one of them.
Most of the women in Jaganwadi Colony complained about drug abuse by
their husband and sons. Almost everyone in these houses was indulged in
substance abuse like Beedi, tobacco, choonS and alcohol. I noticed many of
the children had keen interest in playing online games and didn't even interact
with us.

With their we move on to another community cluster. This cluster was

mainly occupied by Hindu members. Hygienic and sanitation conditions were
very poor. All of them had one room on rent which cost them 3000. There
were almost 175 rooms in this cluster and people here were very angry at the
government and complained about unemployment. Almost every woman
worked as a maid or did tailoring and men are mainly daily wage labour.
These people are more concentrated on giving their children education. With
these things noted down, we moved on to another cluster; while interacting
with cluster members the landlord intervene and mistook us as Government
employees who were inspecting and started scolding us and even warned us
not to be seen here anymore. We humbly stood by our ground and tried
telling them that we are just students and we need to study for our course but
still we were asked to leave, so we left that community cluster.

CONCLUSION: At the end of the day, we realised that these people know
their way out from the property even if someone is earning rupees 4000 per
month he or she is willing to spend half of their salary on their children's
studies. They lived their life but are hopeful for their children to live a better
life. Obviously, lack of knowledge is affecting their and their children's lives
in a manner they don't even know about vaccination. They didn't even want
their babies to get immunised because of the after-effects like fever but
hopefully they will overcome the knowledge gap in near future.
DAY 3
Today was the third day of field work. Today's objectives was to develop the
route map of all anganwadi of the community and acquaint ourselves to
Anganwadi workers and observe how they work.
We received some instructions from above supervisor Dr. Nasra mam, she
told us about the working of anganwadis. After inquiring with community
people with got to know there are almost 23 Anganwadi that are functioning
right now in the community, and we have to visit all of them. We observed
all of the aanganwadis are functional and had healthy environment. People
felt safer there and even praised the workers when we interacted with them
personally.
One thing we observed was workers of Anganwadi were not happy, they
complained that their higher authorities don't treat them right and they receive
almost no funding. When inquired about the children that they take care
of,they refused to give any detail even on a personal level. They didn't even
shared their names with us and the reason they gave was that they were not
allowed to do so. We tried contacting higher authorities on this matter but our
efforts went in vain.

CONCLUSION: mostly all of the people who used aanganwadi were

satisfied, so functioning of Anganwadi is are satisfactory in the community.
DAY 4
Today was the fourth day of our fieldwork and today's objective were:
1. Developing the route map of major Health Care facilities that are-
Mohalla clinics, dispensary, famous private doctors and observe
their functioning in the community.
2. Interacting with community people and jotting down all the
common ailments faced by the community people.
We entered the community and started asking people about the health care
facilities used by them let it be government aided or private. To our finding,
we found that most people use private doctors. These private doctors are
famous, have many patients and charges minimal fees.
We started by exploring Mohalla clinics first. There are two Mohalla clinics
in the community for these community people. We interacted with workers
and doctors there, they all were friendly and ready to comply. We chatted
with both of the doctors in clinics and they received and help us well and told
us about the common ailments of most of the people that are caused due to
unhygienic conditions that theylive in like skin problems and UTI in men and
women both but more common in women because of unavailability to clean
toilets. The main reason for both skin problems and UTI are unhygienic
conditions that these people live in. Other health problems are due to
malnutrition and tension because of poverty like diabetes,hypertension, heart
problems. Other common problems were loose motions, diarrhoea big
problems like dengue,malaria requires immediate attention so they refer these
people to government hospital outside the community. Most of the private
doctors denied to talk to us and the one that talked to us refused to give any
detail. That doctor gave us the same ailments list like mohalla clinic doctor
gave that his patients go through with.

CONCLUSION: Healthcare facilities in the community are average, doctor

and workers are well educated and government facilities a working well.
Common ailments are due to unhygienic condition and poverty which is an
undeniable part of the community.
DAY 5
Today was a fifth day of a field work .Today's assignments were:
1. Developing the route map from Jasola metro station to Legal Aid Clinic
and observe its functioning and its role in development of individual as
well as role in development of community.
2. Getting to know all the religious places in the community and try to
develop an understanding of the influence on development of
community.
We started our day by interacting with community people and whether do
they know about Legal aid clinic or not. Most of the people didn't know
about the Legal Aid clinic, even on Google Maps we were not able to locate
any Legal Aid clinic. After much time, we found out there is no legal clinic
functioning in the community at the moment.
Legal Aid clinic is necessary for these people. Most of the people don't know
about their basic fundamental rights as a result, when their rights are violated,
these people didn't even get to known. When landed in some situations, these
people don't know what to do so, out of the whole population these people
are most vulnerable to become victims as they are literally have no sense of
their legal rights hence, they are easily violated. For example while
interacting with community basically women who worked as maids,didn't
received their salaries before or during the lock down even after working in
this period. This shows how easily they get violated; all of their keepers had
excuses but most of them took advantage of them. Thiis side of Delhi capital
shows how people with money exploits and take advantage of situation like
these and ultimately poorest of the poor suffers and no one bats an eye.
After the failed search, We moved on to our next assignment that was
assigned to us; that was getting to know about all the religious places in the
community firstly we mapped two Hindu diety temples that are:
1. Mata ka mandir
2. Durga Mandir
Most of the people in community are Hindus hence these Mandirs are quite
popular and used by almost every Hindu. There were priest present who
refused to talk to us may be thinking that we are from government so we
decided to ask about Mandir and priests from community people. People told
us every Hindu is a devoted Hindu and religion matters them the most. We
even identified various religious marks on almost every house/ Jhuggi/ flat of
Hindu people. It is their way to keep bad vibes away from their houses. We
found it very traditional and cultural on asking one woman what this sign
serves, she told us she made it because her mother used to make it. So, we
concluded there is no cultural beliefs related to their but they are keeping
alive their tradition; women mostly were distributing Prasad and even offered
to us as well. Inside area of the temple was very clean however people were
not following any covid-19 priests seems friendly to God devotees.
Next stop is made was a Masjid. Mosque built inside a narrow Lane, Masjid
along with few houses were undergoing construction and it had a fair system
to perform wazu and had a clean and healthy environment. Muslims came
here in fair population. Islam is the second most practiced religion in Jasola
gaon.
Next stop we made was church in Jasola gaon there are total tqo churches
side-by-side. Christians in Jasola gaon a very few in number, both of the
church's had excellent infrastructure we didn't get to meet anyone incharge
because they were busy but we noted both of the churches have clean
environment except the fact that they are built in front of big open drain that
Stinks a lot and must be powerhouse of mosquitoes and many diseases.
Church had an old age home, a government training skills Centre as well that
give employment opportunities to many individuals in the field of stitching
and tailoring.

CONCLUSION people in Jasola gaon mainly practices threel religions that

are
1. Hinduism
2. Islam
3. Christian
 Hindu being the largest followed religion,Muslim second largest and
Christianity least followed religion. Even though their are many differences
in culture, tradition and all, still these people live in harmony and peace
stands up for each other in difficult times. In the period of lock down, these
people helped each other the most when their significant employer ignored
them. These differences don't matter when it comes to taking and giving
favoures to one another.
DAY 6
Today was the 6th day of our field work and our objectives were:
1. Getting acquainted with the student of major schools functioning in
Jasola gaon and try to develop understanding of working of
Educational Institute on all levels that are Primary, secondary and
senior.
2. Interacting with NGO workers and try to develop understanding and
their working.
As we entered community,we started asking adults and children where they
study the most common answer was Mansi School it's a government school
and majority population of children go there to study. We visited Mansi
school where we were told to wait. Later on, principal told us it works in two
shifts, morning for girls and in afternoon,for boys. Because of covid-19,
school premises are closed and currently all classes are being held online
including exam.
Teaching online is a great challenge in itself. Most children do not have
access to smartphone as in the family of four to five people, one smart phone
is not enough for two or more to attend online classes. It is impossible for
children to study, forcing them to drop out from school. Children and their
families are requesting school to operate offline but they can't help it they
work on Government orders. Other private school have a bit high fees and
some of them are working offline. They don't have problem as those parents
can afford more than one smartphone. This have created a knowledge gap
that will be hard to fill.
CONCLUSION covid-19 have interrupted the working of schools and
learning of children. Online operating schools have degraded the quality of
education in the children and the knowledge gap created because of this
pandemic may be very difficult to fill. Talking about the operation of schools,
we found schools have well educated staff and children are happy.
DAY 7
Today was the 7th day of fieldwork. Today's objective were:
1. Interacting with community people and understanding their cultural and
traditional beliefs and how they affect their development socially,
economically and personally.
2. Finding about person or persons who influences them about their
beliefs the most and also how their religion is related to their culture
and traditions.
As we entered the community, we started observing people and their
cultural and traditional beliefs and the practices practiced by
community people.
We observed some tattoos on hands of both men and women on asking why
they have it they told us about the culture or their family that compelled them
to have it. We observed tulsi plant planted outside some jhuggis and Swastika
sign too. In short, their culture represented the religion. For the community
people culture and religion are interrelated and one can't go without another.
Both of them influences Each other. Religious institutes play major role in
the life of these people they can't ignore what is said by priest or Imam.

CONCLUSION community Jasola gaon is rich in culture and all people

follow certain religion no matter how poor they are. They don't forget their
religion and culture. After being different, we only solve Unity in them. No
one told us that they don't like Each Other because of difference in culture or
religion.
 DAY 9
Today was the ninth day of our fieldwork and today's objectives were:
1. Interacting with the community people and make keen
observations on the old people and the Healthcare facilities used
by them.
2. Making observations on old aged people's mental and Physical
health and how they are treated in the community
3. Exploring the community and finding about any functional old
age home its working and impact on the society
4. Understanding the situation that brought the old people to old age
home
As we entered community we started looking for old people mainly aged
above 60 years. Some were seen on the road. When we visited jhuggis, we
found out when they turn about 60 or 65 these people are sent back home
from where they came. Reasons are logical that most people living here are
daily wage labourers and they are gone for long hours and there is no one to
look after or attend these aged people. some aged women in the community
complained about their daughter in law who don't read them right and some
were happy and wanted to continue living in community. On visiting old age
home, we found out all these people were thrown out of their houses and
werel brought here by police. Old age home is a part of Church. It functions
well andl had a clean healthy and friendly environment. Three Sisters from
Kerala are imcharge of this charitable old age home old age. While exploring
the community, we observed no such medical facilities dedicated solely to
old people. Government amd private health institutions both complies with
the ailment suffered by old age people and tey to help them.
DAY 10
Today was the tenth day of our field work and today's objective were:
1. Interacting with the community people and finding out about homeless
people
2. Finding about the facilities available by homeless people and how they
survive in Harsh weather conditions
3. Finding out about shelter homes dedicated to homeless people, their
working and impact on the lives of these people
4. Get to know more about these people and the problems faced by them
While exploring the community, it was hard to spot homeless people when
we asked some people about them we were told all of the people must be at
work so it is hard to find them right now. On Google, we located a
Rainbasera and decided to head there.
We found a functional Rainbasera opposite to churchand guard was
welcoming us. But we were prohibited to click any picture or shoot video.
Guard told us 21 men stays here at night and all of them have their family
somewhere else, they earned and send them money. These people use
Rainbasera just to save money, all of them live, eat, sleep, cook and clean
together and there is no such disagreements among them.
We observed Rainbasera was clean, sanitized and had a healthy environment.
Other than 21 men, some men sometimes stays here but no women and
children ever stays here. All these people including caretacker and guard
lives in harmony amd celebrates each other's happiness amd problems.
Rainbasera is operated by delhi government and is an excellent step to
provide nutritional diet to homeless people which also offers them a roof on
head whenever they need it. Salaries offered to guard amd caretacker is also
satisfactory. When asked if you are happy doing this job, both of them
repkied a big yes.
I think jasola gaon needs more functional rainbaseras and it needs to become
more equipped so that women and children can stay here too.
DAY 11
Today was the 11th day of our fieldwork and today's assignment were:
1. Entering the community and getting acquainted with community people
while observing the self employment opportunity was obtained by the
community people.
2. Trying and finding about skill training centres in Jasola gaon. I
Understand its working, funding and impact on the life of trainees and
on the community.
3. Observing and understanding about the self employment options
chosen by community people and how they sustain their livelihood.
When we entered the community,we saw people engaged in many self
employment opportunities like chat wala,ice cream vendor, Barber, broom
making business l, fruit and vegetable vendors and other various vendors.
Women opted for beauty parlours , home tuitions (if educated) and tailoring
as well.
These people's work requires physical labour and when asked if they are
satisfied with the job,most of the answers came as 'no'. People with aging
signs along with nutritional insufficiency suffered the most. They don't even
have one holiday in a week. Working hours are long and hard, making life
difficult. One thing that makes them keep going ans keep them motivated is-
their children. They want their children to do better; so they have to give
their best for them if not for themselves.
We found an operational training centre that teaches women tailoring. That
training centre is a government one and is currently operational. It is located
in the church. We enquired about its working, all people praised the teachers
and told us whoever gets training from there, they change their lives for good.
We visited the training centre and found teachers very loving, caring and
friendly. Students there thought we are there to get admitted and so, they
welcomed us cheerfully. In training centre, instructors also educate studengs
which is a very good initiative. Aim of the teachers there and the training
centre is to develop an understanding among these community people that
they have to do something on their own to escape this poverty. They have to
help themselves first.
Training centre charges very nominal fees i.e. 2500rs for tailoring in which
trainees receive a sewing machine and a certificate as well. This Training
center is the only one that is recognized by the government and working
under church. Women from all religions, backgrounds, castes have enrolled
themselves in the training.
We also found Private training centers in the community that offered various
courses and even claimed the guarantee of getting a job. We talked to the
incharge of Sriniwas coaching centre and he told us about the youth of jasola
gaon that is interested in studies and courses that they were offering. He even
told us about some students who got a well paying job after completing
computer courses. Poor children who cannot afford fees study there at a
discounted price and even for free. But the only condition is they have to
study hard. We also met other training centers managers/operators no one
told us about relaxation given to these poor children by them like Srinivas sir
told us.
CONCLUSION people who have enrolled themselves in the training are
changing their own lives for good. These people have realized their only way
out from poverty is gaining skill and using it as an entrepreneur opportunity
to gain an income and change their lives for good.
Poor youth enrolled in private institutions in a hope of finding a good job
shows the dedication of these people to get out of this poverty and unhygienic
living condition. Wishing to do something for themselves and their families
is ultimately a step up for this community that hopefully we will see in near
future.
DAY 12
Today was the twelfth day of our fieldwork and today's objectives were:
1. To know about the mindset of community people regarding different
issues like gender gap, superiority of one gender over another and
there beliefs on superstitions.
2. Understanding the deep-rooted stereotypes that community people
follow in common like dowry system, purdah system,etc.
3. Getting to know more about the women in the community and how
they are treated in different sections of the community and the common
problems and violence faced by them.
After entering the community,we started asking women if they or their family
members treat girl child or boy child the same or differently. Surprisingly
most of the answers were: they are treated differently. Most of the in-laws of
these women who talked to us told us that if she gave birth to a baby girl,
their in-laws and even their husbands were unhappy and blamed them.
Opening up of these women to us was very difficult for them. Not only were
they bound by their in-laws or husbands,they were emotionally exhausted
too. Talking on this topic for them was emotionally overwhelming too. Out
of 15 women approached by us only eight spoke to us. Some of them became
very emotional.
On asking about the Dowry and Parda system, All the answers were common
-yes. They are still practiced and make lives of women living hell and no one
bats an eye about this. The Dowry system is practised more commonly and
the worst part is - it is practiced openly.
We met some victims that complaint about domestic violence and were
subjected to various abuses including verbal and emotional and ultimately
thrown out of their houses because of the "typical men thinking" that women
should stay behind closed doors or simply because their husband or in-laws
suspected them of having an affair with some else, worse where their
husbands thought that their wife is 'being seen' by other men. The Dowry
system has done damage too, we saw instances in the community where
women were married only for dowry and left after that, women being beaten
up to satisfy demands of husbands and in-laws. Some women told us that
lockdown was the worst part of their lives. Families who stayed in the
community had lack of access to basically everything, they were prohibited
to get out. It was a living nightmare for some of the women as they were
locked with their abuser. Worst Of them was when their drug addict husbands
who were not getting their 'doses', took out all of their frustrations on their
wives.
When asked about the violence from housemates, answers were disturbing.
One woman told us that her husband beats her regularly on small things like
once she broke a glass. He never takes her to the hospital and doesn't even
give her money. Many women like this didn't even open up or tell anything to
us.
It is sad to see these violences practiced by men because of their typical
thinking that women are Beneath them. The worst part is- their children
learning the same things from their parents.
DAY 13
Today was the 13th day of our fieldwork and today's objective were:
1. Entering the community and observing the various entrepreneurs that
created employment opportunities for themselves and as well as for
other people.
2. Getting to know about the hardships and struggle in starting a new
business and continuing their Family businesses.
3. Inquiring about the effects of log done on the newly started and
previously existing businesses.
As we entered the community we observed a wide range of entrepreneurs
indulged in different fields like Barber,vendors, kirana store, labourers,
construction worker distributor, painters, etc.
We asked Salim Barber when and where he learnt his work from. His answer
was like most of the entrepreneurs working in the community- I learnt it by
myself. Now he is earning well for himself and is also teaching young boys
the same work free of cost in a hope that these boys will have a skill up their
hand and will do better than him. We also saw a group of boys volunteeringly
lcutting each others hair in a hope to learn styling skill andycan do better for
themselves and their family in future. Employing a dose as well as
themselves is also a step forward towards development. In the dime of war
with 19 entrepreneurs were the most and worsley affected. Due to nationwide
lockdown, all businesses took a hard toll, as a result, entrepreneurs lost their
incomes and the resources. Daily labourers were affected the most. Having
no access to ration and other things, dealing with family problems like hunger
was the most emotional wrentching thing happened to these people.

CONCLUSION nationwide lockdown not only affected health of these

people but also affected the income,resources and snatched job security.
People who got paid doing lockdown were among the luckiest. Most of the
community people flew to their native places who didn't have a job.
DAY 14
Do they was the 14 2 day off other fields of and today's objectives were:
1. Entering the community and exploring the healthcare facilities
dedicated to woman and child exclusively.
2. Exploring government as well as private gynecologist and pediatricians
within the community.
3. Enquiring about the most common ailments and problems faced by
pregnant woman and infant aged between 0-5 years of age.
After entering the community, we started observing and noting down the
various clinics dedicated to women and children. Unfortunately, there is no
government facility officially dedicated to women and children. Somewhat
assistance is given by the MCD dispensary but most of the people dislike
going there and prefer not going there. Mohalla clinics have male doctors and
they are not specialised in any woman or child problem, leaving women and
children with no other options other than going outside the community or
going to private clinics. While exploring the community,we observed many
many private gynecologists sitting at almost every corner in the community.
On enquiring about these doctors people called them fraud and 'jhola chhap'.
People living in the community for a longer time don't go to these doctors
because they anyway know what kind of doctor they are. Most common
gynecologist in the community are three gynecologists and they charge very
nominal fees. But the problem with these doctors is they don't attend patients
on a daily basis; they only attend them only twice a week that's why most
women go to Iqbal Faizi's clinic that is in Okhla Vihar that is located outside
the community.
Coming to the pediatrician, there is no government or even private service for
infants. People have to take their infant to Holy Family hospital, Al shifa
hospital,or Too Far Away hospitals like Safdarjung. It is very unfortunate for
the community people that there is zero pediatrician in such a large
community.

CONCLUSION there are almost negligible Health Care facilities for women
and children. Whatever Health Care facilities dedicated to women are not
satisfactory except two or three that are not working at the best. Coming to
pediatricians, there is zero facility dedicated to infants aged between 0 to 2
years. Common ailments were found after talking to gynecologists were
fibroids, cystitis and vaginitis, leukorrhea. Most women in pregnancy don't
have access to nutritional diet which leads to unhealthy pregnancy also not
having access to clean toilets is another reason for UTI that women and men
both suffer with. Pregnant women are most at risk losing their child in such a
condition. It is very sad to see the Dark Side of Delhi capital that people don't
even have access to basic amenities like clean toilets. They have to go to the
Jungle or to an open area which puts their privacy, life and health at-risk.