Gram panchayat: Mota ka kheda and Kalaliya.

2. WHERE WERE WE?
Economy
 Largely cattle raring and agricultural
 Small Land Holdings (1.5 Biga Average)
 Migratory youth
 Mineral rich: Rampant granite mining in Mandal

4. WHERE WERE WE?
Socio- Cultural
 Conservative
 Caste Rigidity
 Restricted social mobility
 Patriarchy
 Largely uneducated population

7. WHERE WERE WE?
Political
 Caste politics
 Dynastic politics
 Limited interface between the state and people

9. WHY WERE WE THERE?
As civil society agents:
 To partake in the grievance redress process
 To raise awareness on the RTH
 To collectivize workers to save NREGA
As students:
 To study functioning of policies
 For Rural Appraisal

11. HOW DID WE DO IT?
 Travelled on foot: ‘Pad Yatra’
 Went house to house interacting and spreading
awareness
 Conducted village meetings
 Rural experience as participants and observers
 Conducted public hearings at the end of each yatra

13.  Reflect on welfare policies aimed at rural
development in relation to the grievance redress
system.
 Place specific policies in the developmental
paradigm
 Apply policy analysis tools to review policy
performance and suggest future policy reforms.

14. Right to Education
Desired
Policy Target:
Making
primary
education a
fundamental
right for all
children in the
age group 6-14

15.  Poor infrastructure
 Extremely high student-teacher ratio
 Non implementation of prescribed standards in
midday meal
 Socio-cultural obstacles e.g. child marriage

16. KUNWAR KA BADIA DUNGELA

17. Universal, rights-based legislation essential for
development of human-capital

18.  Appropriate management of resources
 Take in account other socio-economic-cultural
problems to be able to comprehensively address the
issue

19. Desired Policy Target:
To provide public financial assistance to women
above 55 years of age and men above 58 years
of age within the economic capacity of the
state.

20.  Several leakages observed
 Integrated auto upgrading non-existent
 Required to produce too many documents
 Long, tedious and expensive process

21.  Case study of
Meera Devi:
PPO/Bank receipt
was asked along
with a new
application.

22. The only universal scheme with the potential to
support the elderly.

23.  Need to emphasize on oral modes of
communication as opposed to written
 Need to increase awareness on entitlements

24. Desired Policy Target:
Providing financial assistance for the
construction of dwelling units for households
under the Central BPL

25.  Assistance given in stages
 Money provided is not sufficient
 Long waiting list
 Skewed eligibility criteria

28.  Targeting leads to marginalisation of the
deserving people due to rigid eligibility
criteria

29. MGNREGA
Desired Policy
Target:
Poorest
marginalized
households with no
alternative means of
employment.

30.  Engaged women and old-people
 Minimal amount trickling down to the
poorest
 No asset creation
 People rarely finish 100 days of work
 Mixed response to its dilution (case study)

32. Mandal Raipur
• Dependent on cattle-rearing/
agriculture
• Migration – limited to few
women and old people
• Problems in implementation
• Dependent entirely on
manual labour, no land
holdings
• Popular among men, women
and the aged
• Relatively better
implementation but no
alternative anyway

33.  Crucial rights-based legislation for people with no
alternative means of employment
 Effective distributive policy that empowers villages
with a significant influx of funds
 Empowerment tool

34.  Dilutes difference between the policy and it’s
implementation – conspicuous absence of
awareness
 Building a comprehensive policy that does
not address issues in isolation but integrates
them. For example: building houses under
NREGA, instead of separate housing and
employment schemes

35. Desired Policy Target:
 Development in rural India seen largely from the lens
of infrastructure development
 Provision of basic infrastructural facilities to all
people residing in rural India

36.  NREGA: no asset creation
 Absence of Electricity
 Absence of gravel roads
 Lack of Sanitation and clean drinking water

40. Intends to universalize basic infrastructure amenities
that are crucial to improvement of human life.

41.  Inflexible policies tend to exclude vast numbers of
population from acquiring basic facilities. Ex. 1 hand
pump per 250 people
 Does not universalize basic amenities

42.  A NON-FUNCTIONING
HAND PUMP IN
JENA VILLAGE
IN MOTA KA
KHEDA
PANCHAYAT. THE
ONLY HAND
PUMP IN THE
ENTIRE
VILLAGE.

44. Grievance redress only the first step to
effective policy implementation!