Gram Swarajya

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An initiative of MKCL for Educating,

Enabling and Empowering Villages
2020

 Despite having the stated

objective of being a ‘welfare
state’ and having spent billions
on development projects since
Independence, India still fares
extremely poor on all
development indices. (131/189
on the HDI, 2020 rankings)
 Some of the misplaced / town centric government
policies in the recent past have excluded most of the
rural society from partaking in India’s journey of
development, resulting in a sense of deprivation and
dissatisfaction among a large percentage of people
(two-thirds of Indian Population) in the Indian villages.
 Rural areas are still disturbed by
problems of malnourishment,
illiteracy, unemployment and
lack of basic infrastructure like
schools, colleges, hospitals,
sanitation, etc. This has led to
youth / families moving out of
villages to work in cities.
Migration from rural areas to
cities has become a key issue.
• Welfare funding does not
cure or address the root cause
of poverty. It only treats the
symptoms. It seems that, the
root cause of poverty is about
lack of skills and economic
opportunity.
 In most of the villages Gram Sabhas are held only for
formalities. There are some limitations in Gram Sabha,
while taking any fearless decisions. Therefore, if we want to
develop the village with the cooperation and consensus of
all, it is necessary to strengthen the Gram Sabhas.
• The cleverness and vigilance of
the villagers can jeopardize the
interests of many political
leaders. Therefore, in most cases
in rural area, we found
dominance of representative
democracy over participatory
democracy. People Participation
in the decision-making process
are extremely important here.
 Today SDG-2030 index figures quoted by the government
are just top down exercise. It is important that development
initiatives must be carried out from bottom up and should
be evaluated regularly and transparently from the data
generated at ground level.
 Authenticated information is a key in
knowledge-based planning of any Environment
(Water /
development works/projects. The Forest/Land)
Livelihood
Culture
(Economy)
available information with villages is
scanty, manipulated or scattered. This
Integrated
makes developing comprehensive Social Database
Of village
Health

Village/GP Development Plan difficult.

Here integrated database and the Infrastructure Education

tool for capturing data can play a vital Governance

role in village development

• In spite of having data, very few
Gram Panchayats are able to
visualize it properly. They always
require an expert advice to make
a concrete action plan.
Role of government agencies /
Departments are very important
here, but it seems that, they can’t
perform their role efficiently.
• All villages may not have
appropriate leadership. Hence, it
is necessary to set up a
comprehensive platform for
educating, enabling, empowering
villages through an appropriate
educational content and ICT
tools.
 Over dependency on government
threatens the self-reliance and
autonomy of villages. Therefore, it
is necessary to make efforts, to
make villages / GP self-reliant and
autonomous and keep villages
away from the people who have
monopoly of Religion, Wealth,
Politics and Knowledge.
Mendha Lekha, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra.
Self-Reliant and autonomous village
Potential Use of Technology

Data Handling
When it comes to the execution of
Knowledge
Communication
rural development plans and
Resource
schemes, there are several areas
Technology where the use of Technology can
bring significant improvement in
Transparency
Management
Tools aspects like efficiency, transparency,
accountability, compliances etc.
Accountability
 Introducing
Gram Swarajya
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 Core Objective
To create state-of-the-art digital
ecosystem (GramSwarajya) for Gram
Panchayat, which will Educate, Enable
and Empower Villagers through data
driven solutions and will help villages
to make self- reliant and autonomous.
To achieve this objective, we will..
- Define rural citizen centric services which will drive the
process of Rural Transformation*
- Design technology-based tool for facilitating rural citizen
centric services.
- Define subject wise / profile wise / Category wise data
attributes and their master values for appropriate data
capturing to make efficient Village / Gram Panchayat
Development Plan.
To achieve this objective, we will..
- Prepare database of various Subject Matter Experts
(SME) along with their core competencies.
- Prepare predictive analysis content and their report
formats based on standard database of various profiles.

*Transformation: In this context, it means “a permanent and sustainable shift

to a state of ecological and economic stability, social security and overall
wellbeing of all residents (human and non-human) of a given rural cluster”
Scope of the Product and Services
• Progressive web-based application, which can be accessed
on a smartphone also.
• All stakeholders will provide authentic information in the
system, in the prescribed format. It will be a dynamic
process.
• Useful reports / development plans / predictive analysis
based on the collected information can be obtained time
to time through the system.
Scope of the Product and Services
• It will offer various data driven services to Citizen, Gram
Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad.
• This Framework can also provide various experts advisory
support to stake holders.
 Important Stake Holders

Rural Citizen Gram Panchayat Panchayat Samiti Zilla Parishad

Knowledge based planning

Water Budgeting
Sanjeevak Sheti
Various Farm Robotics
Subject Matter Experts / Quality Education
Preventive Healthcare
Line Department
 Rural Citizen
व्यक्तिगत आणि बँक
आरोग्य

पत्ता आणि संपर्क कौटुंबिक

नागरिकांची माहिती (एक जिल्हा परिषद एक प्रोफाईल)

ओळख घर आणि विमा

रोजगार

शैक्षणिक कृ षी आणि पशुधन

सामाजिक
 Rural Citizen
• Will create and manage his profile
• Will see the predictive analysis or will get an expert advice
based on the given data.
• Will be able to participate in Opinion Polls from wherever
they are (An active participation in decision making
process through Virtual Gram Sabha) even they can
genuinely give their opinions for various state or national
level Policy rather casually expressing on Social Media.
 Rural Citizen
• Will demand for individual, Family as well as Community
Benefits / entitlement.
• Will be able to raise grievances related to governance.
• Will be able to chat / share best practices with others
• Will be able to see the information shared by Gram
Panchayat as a proactive Disclosure.
 Gram Panchayat
• Will create and manage various profiles and sub profiles at
community level.
• Will authenticate / verify the data given by the Rural
Citizens.
• Will be able to see the predictive analysis or will be able to
get an expert advice for community level planning based
on the given data.
 Gram Panchayat
• Will be able to create Opinion Polls for villagers (Like Gram
Sabha) to take decision about any vital issue / Work.
• Will be able to communicate with the citizen for timely
reminders, notices, updates, warnings.
• Will be able to view real time SDG-2030 Scores of their
village.
• Will be able to see demands for individual benefits as well
as for community facilities.
 Gram Panchayat
• Will maintain the details of beneficiaries who already
availed the benefits.
• Will request for knowledge sessions with various Subject
Matter Experts.
• Will see their real-time status of VDP / GPDP.
• Will be able to share data to concern government
authority in their given format whenever it required.
 Gram Panchayat
• Will update the financial status / progress of any ongoing
development project work as a proactive disclosure
mandatory under RTI Act.
• Will maintain the record / status of GP assets.
• Will download various data analytical / periodic reports
timely.
• Will be able to raise grievances to Panchayat Samiti / ZP
• Will be able to chat / share best practices with other GPs.
 Panchayat Samiti / Zilla Parishad
• Will get the details of various probable individual / family
beneficiaries for welfare schemes. PS will be able to send
recommendations to ZP also.
• Will get the details of Community facilities demand raised
by Grampanchayat.
• Will be able to view real time SDG-2030 Scores of their
Blocks / District.
• Will be able to authenticate / verify the Citizen data
 Panchayat Samiti / Zilla Parishad
• Will get various data analytical / periodic reports both GP
wise as well as Block (PS) wise.
• Will communicate with the PS /GP for timely reminders,
notices, updates, warnings.
• Will view VDP/ GPDP of any particular GP or overall
Panchayat Samiti Development Plan which can be derived
from VDP / GPDP.
 Features
 Single Sign on for Citizen, GP, PS, ZP, and SME.
 Single profile for each stake holder.
 Single platform for all stake holders
 Integrated data management by adhering data security
norms.
 Predictive data analysis and reports based on collected
data.
 Features
 Availability of various video conferencing tools and
integration of social media to bridge the communication gap.
 Opinion Poll facility for better and fast decision making
 Knowledge warehouse.
 Online tracking and monitoring of real time performance of
SDG-2030.
 Timely reminders, notices, updates, warning, grievances
redressal and many more…..
 Benefits
 Will do Seamless Communication between Citizens, GP, PS
and ZP.
 Will Capture real time demand for various development
work / welfare schemes benefit.
 Will help for Knowledge base development planning
through SME’s for both individual and community level.
 Will help to avoid data duplication / manipulation at GP,
PS and ZP level.
 Benefits
 Will promote ‘Participative Democracy’ by enabling
villagers in decision making process.
 Will help villages to prepare appropriate VDP / GPDP and
to achieve SDG-2030
 Will increase Government Visibility and transparency in
various aspects and will save their precious time and
administrative cost also.
 Social Business Model
 We can target 28k GPs in Maharashtra with the help of the
Rural Development Department.
 Expecting an Annual subscription fee worth Rs. 10k approx
from each GP.
 Our ALC’s can work as Industry Interfacing Partners here.
 Potential in Maharashtra worth Rs. 28 Cr (Turn over)