1. This paper contains the Detailed description of different PRA tools, Which we Have used for data collection in Dungra Village. 2. We prepared this report for the fulfillment of Our Field Work Assignment of 3rd Sem. 3. This paper will we helpful for Our juniors to Know about different PRA tools and their Application in practical field and to prepare a structured report also.

1. PRA Report of Dungra
Village (2018)
Course: Five years integrated MSc. in ARTD
Module: 304(Pr.)
Submitted by: Students of ARTD-2017
Date of submission:
Work done under the guidance of
Dr. Arunava Sengupta, Dr. Dipankar Chatterjee,
Mr. Supratim Patra and PhD scholar Suresh Kr.
Mahto.
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda
Educational and Research Institute, Ranchi.

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We thankfully acknowledge the people of Dungra village, whose warm reception as well as co-
operation in all possible ways made PRA and other fieldworks successful and so simple.
We are grateful to our respected PhD scholar Suresh Kumar Mahto who not only supervised us
in knowing the PRA but also gave his valuable suggestions to do it on the field and prepare this
report.
We are also much grateful to our former RKMVERI student Mr. Subrata Ghosh who organised
our whole living(including fooding and lodging) in the village and thanks also to our guide cum
visit co coordinator Jagannath Bhaiya who helped us in every possible way and made our
staying in the village so comfortable.
We also thankfully acknowledge intellectual and moral support provided by our Supratim Patra
sir, former HOD Dr. Arunava Sengupta and our present HOD Dr. Dipankar Chaterjee along
with other faculties of Department of Agriculture, Rural & Tribal Development and
Management in particular and the authorities of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda
Educational and Research Institute in general.
Date: -------------------------------------
Signature

3. Contents
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................4
TRANSECT WALKAND TRANSECT MAP.................................................................................................5
SEASONAL CALENDARS.......................................................................................................................7
VENN DIAGRAM...............................................................................................................................10
PROBLEMRANKING..........................................................................................................................14
PARTICIPATORY MAPPING.................................................................................................................18
MATRIX RANKING.............................................................................................................................21
TIMELINE .........................................................................................................................................23
WEALTH RANKING............................................................................................................................25
OUR WORDS ....................................................................................................................................26

4. INTRODUCTION
“Investing for poor requires participation from the whole community”
-Bills Gates
We all are well aware of the fact that instead of assuming about a situation and acting to the
problems, it’s far better to face that along with those who are actually in that situation. From this
idea comes the concept of involving people in any kind of development activity and gradually
considering the drawbacks of Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA), Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
came into being. PRA encourages participation of the local people and they design the activities
by keeping in mind the availability of the resources that are present in their surroundings. This
makes complete use of existing local resources like manpower, time, material resources and others.
Based on such significance, PRA is included in the syllabus of our 304 Practical and we chose
Dungra village of Khuti district for making it happen in our own way. Though not so far from
Ranchi, it's still an enjoyable place if explored properly. The river Kanchi, divides the hill
surrounded village into two TOLIS. With 110 households, Dungra if full of hearty and helpful
people. Their sporty and family like attitude helped us a lot in our work. Majority of people belong
to Munda tribe, and are mainly dependent on agriculture. Due to influence of NEEDS, the
agriculture here is to some extent very organised and scientific with drift irrigation and plastic
mulching facilities. Apart from agriculture, many people work as labourers at Ranchi and it’s
surrounding areas. Due to this, people are coming in contact with the outer world and a mixed type
of culture is seen instead of that primitive one. But still, it’s a sensitive area where no
administrative rules are followed (PATTHAL GARI) and even the Police does not interfere in their
matters. We were told not to go out and roam here and there at night. But whatever the situation is
at night, we can’t help admitting that Dungra is quite developed. This is proven from the use of
solar energy driven lampposts and pumps to recent installation of Sanitary pad preparing machines.
We, the 3rd semester students, some students from 5th semester and the faculty members
accommodated into three rooms; the community hall, the Anganwadi centre and in a personal
house. From the very day we reached the village, i.e on 25th of September, we started our work.
PRA tools especially Participatory Mapping and Resource Mapping were practiced that day at the
Village Akhara. The amazing fact was that one that very first night, without any proper interaction
with the Villagers we had a gathering of more that 100 people. Followed by those, we also
practiced other tools like Timeline, Matrix Mapping, Wealth Ranking, Seasonality, Vein Diagram,
Problem Ranking, Transact Walk and Transact Mapping. Apart from these, we performed a drama
cum demonstration on organic farming and other social issues in front of the villagers and lastly
all danced together on the beats of madar and dhol. In the last day, under initiative of Jagannath
Bhaiya we visited a poly house and helped some farmers in potting a particular variety of chili
saplings. After the lunch was over we left, and reached home via college within 4pm. The
informations that we gathered by utilising the different PRA tools (being divided into 8 groups),
are arranged accordingly.

5. TRANSECTWALK ANDTRANSECTMAP
Transect walk: A transect walk is a kind of exploratory walk which is undertaken by the team
along with the villagers to observe and see the differences in a particular area.
Transect map: Based upon the observation, during the transect walk, a map is drawn showing
land topography and available resourses livelihood as well as problem and opportunities.
PURPOSE
1)to get an idea about farming practices, cropping pattern, irrigation facilities etc.
2)to know the agro eco system of the village.
3)to get the cross-sectional view of the village.
4)to understand the indigenous technical knowledge.
The transect map of Dungra village

6. MAIN INFORMANT:
1: Margo Sanga
2: Jagganath Gope
3: Manish Lohra
4: Ranjit Tirkey
Transect map of Dungra village
Dungra village is located in Khunti tehsil of Khunti district in Jharkhand, India.
It situated 20 km away from Khunti, which is both district and sub district headquarter of Dungra
village. Fudi is the gram panchayat of Dungra village.
The total geographical area of Dungra village is 393ha. Near about 196 household in Dungra
village.
We started us transect walk from the road near the Samudayik Bhaban then walk straight to
left side there is the stone crusher (chadri tongri) is located. At the right side there are few kachha
house. A narrow lane straightens and a temple (Maribur wuli baba) and a well situated at the left
side of this and some kachha house are also there.
At the right side of the main road a small is there. From the community hall, there is a river
named 'Kanchi' & the distance is near about 1km. There are also around 5 to 6 hills, & the name
of the largest one is 'Bada Pahar'.
Nearly about few meters of distance there is a ground. Then we walk straight at the right side
a primary school is situated. At the left side of a narrow lane Akhara is located. Then we walk
straight along the main road and some kachha house in both side. A dense forest and a tubewell is
in the left of the road. We turn left, there were few hactors agricultural land at the both side of the
road.
A small bridge made of bamboo is connecting the Dungra village with Murhu village. Nearby
villages of Dungra are Barkargi, Akta, Argori, Kalamati, Rai, Hisang, Murhu.

7. SEASONAL CALENDARS
Seasonal calendars are useful for evaluation as they can help analyse time-related cyclical changes
in data. A calendar allows people to visualize patterns of variations over particular periods of time
- such as across weeks, seasons, one or several years.
By seeing these patterns, calendars offer a simple and effective option to understand links between
different indicators, stimulate discussions, plan for change, and monitor and evaluate it. Seasonal
calendars are often used as a participatory tool to find out community perceptions on time-related
variations in indicators such as weather patterns, time spent on labour and other activities, level of
food security, nutrition, illness (in people, crops or livestock), cash availability, and production
patterns and yield. This option has been used effectively for a variety of purposes (from learning
and awareness-raising, to participatory research, project planning and evaluation).
Climate
The climate is tropical rain forest. Maximum rainfall takes place during the months from July to
September that accounts for more than 90% of total rainfall in the state.
Humidity
The relative humidity is generally high in the monsoon season. In the rest of the year, the air is
generally dry. The summer months are the driest with relative humidity, especially in the
afternoons of the order of 50 percent.
Rainfall
Khunti receives rainfall almost throughout the year, though the concentration is during the
monsoon months, from June to September. The average annual rainfall in the region as whole is
1000 to 1600 mm. During the monsoon months, June to September, the region receives about 85
% of the annual rainfall. July and August are the rainiest months. The highest rainfall of 480.4 mm
recorded in the region during the month of July in 2008.
The seasonal calendar was a helpful tool for decision-making because:
 It was a simple way to get farmers’ perceptions on the labour hours spent on the different activities.
 By finding out that the labour peaks coincided, the project could find other ways to combine the
two types of crops.

8. Seasonality of Cropping Pattern:
Major crops:-
Sl.
No.
Name of
Crop
Months
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1
Paddy S H
2
Maize H S
3
Ragi S H
4
Bitter gourd
5
Kakri S H
6
Tomato H S H S
7
Kulthi H S
8
Mustard H S
9
Wheat H S
10
Cabbage &
Cauliflower
H S
11
Pulses(except
masoor)
S H
12
Jowar H S
13
Cucumber S H
14
Watermelon S H
15
Carrot &
Raddish
H S
16
Til H S
17
Sponge gourd S H S H
18
Bottle gourd S H S H

9. Period of happiness and sorrow:-
Happiness and Sorrow:-
Indicator Season Reason
Happy Magh (January-Feb) Greenery Good Climate
Sorrow Jeth (March - May) Very Hot , Sun Stroke, Malaria
Happy Ashadh (June-July)
Sawan (July-August)
More Work More Money
Average Fagun( Februray-March)
Baisakh (April-May)
Availability of Food
Seasonalityof Migration:
Migration is very common in the village and it is mainly cyclic migration. Migration is mainly due
to push factor, the primary reason for migration is lack of employment opportunities in the village.
Other reasons are lack of food availability need for money etc. People mostly migrate to the nearby
city like Ranchi. Most of them engage in labor work and very few people work as
Agricultural labor. Migration is common in the month of April, May, June as there is no work
available in the village and during this time no cropping is done. On an average a person migrates
for 36 to 80 days.
Migration Details Percentage
Migrated 20%
For job 10%
City 5%
Avg. no. of days for
migration
45-50 days

10. VENNDIAGRAM
Introduction
We the students of RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIVEKANANDA EDUCATION AND
RESEARCH INSTITUTE visited the village named Dungra in the khuti district. Your PRA
(Participatory Rural Appraisal) commenced at about 7:30 in the evening. After breaking the ice
between the villagers and ourselves we initiated the participatory mapping. Thus, most of the
villagers got themselves engaged in drawing up of the map. We interacted and communicated with
3 important people of the village namely the Gram Pradhan and his co-workers. Thus, we managed
to learn about the important structures present in and around the village like bank, school, post
office etc.
Informant
During the execution of the map, our group who was given the duty of accomplishing the venn
diagram. Meanwhile the mapping was conducted our group had a small discussion with the
respected Gram Pradhan named Kamal Sangha. We even got the company of his co-workers like
Litta Sangha and Sitaram Lora.
Process
Venn diagrams were developed by the logician John Venn. They represent an easy way to identify
structures or relationships among organisations and how they are perceived in a community. Venn
diagrams can be useful tools for analysis or support the decision-making process in a sanitation
and water management intervention.
Advantages
 Easy way to show similarities and differences amongst systems
 Works without much technical equipment (a large paper, blackboard, or even moist soil
will do)
 A tool which is easy to understand and to use
 Clearly orientated towards output

11. Disadvantages
 Growing complexity if more than four circles are drawn (especially if all circles have to be
intersected with each other)
 A Venn diagram is often a snapshot of a group interaction and negotiations; a facilitator is
sometimes needed to capture the discussion leading to it and exposing power dynamics
within the group
 If the Venn diagrams are done by groups, the views of weaker actors are likely to be
submerged
 Clearly orientated towards output
The concept of the Venn diagram was surveyed by John Venn, as the name of the diagram
suggests. He introduced the diagram in 1880, and since then, the Venn diagram became very
popular because it is very easy to understand and to use (RUSKEY & WESTON 2005).
Sometimes, the Venn diagram is also called Chapati diagram (Chapatis are a round, flat type of
bread eaten in India and South Asia).

12. Analysis
With the detailed review of the surrounding area of the Dungra village we can conclude that: -
NORTH
1. Tuputhana – 10 km
2. Satrangi -7km
3. Private hospital- 5 km
4. Hulundru (high school)- 5 km
5. Dungra toli – outskirt
6. Forest – outskirt
NORTH EAST
1. Saffire school – 2.5km
2. Market -2.7km
EAST
1. Ullibaba mandir (shiv ji)- outskirt
2. Birsa college – 1km
WEST
1. Dandol Ghat -1km
2. River kanchi -1km
SOUTH WEST
1. Pundri post office -2.5 km
2. Sharul and karma puja site -5km
SOUTH
1. Kalamati – 2.5
2. Girls school -2.7 km
3. Police station -20km
4. Powers station -20km
5. Hospital government -15km
6. Khunti – BANK OF INDIA and BANK OF ALLAHABD -20KM
Thus, the village has these structures in its near about premises.

13. CONCLUSION (From Venn diagram)
Thus, we got to know the available resources and facilities in and around Dungra. Thus, the
distance of the crafts gives us the idea of the development and the degree of difficulty faced
by the villagers to access the proficiencies. Thanks to the hearty and warm understanding
between the villager and us that we learnt the needed structures for proper and safe livelihood.

14. PROBLEMRANKING
Introduction:
Problem Ranking is a participatory technique that allows analysing and identifying problems or
preferences, stakeholder share in order to implement adequate improvements and solutions in their
community and area. First, the stakeholders have to decide which are the most important problems
they face in their community. Afterwards, the participants have to rank these problems in regards
to their importance. The result of this method provides the starting base for discussions on possible
solutions to the priority problems. In the village Dungra, We conducted the problem ranking in the
PRA session with the villagers. For that we requested the villagers to give their opinion about the
different problems which they have to face in their day to day life.
Importance:
Problem ranking method helps to quickly get a good idea of what people think are the priority,
problem or preferences. The criteria attached to make up a choice are used to consider in
the community action plan. Individuals or groups vote on the items from most important to least
important. The choices could be between water points, problems, solutions and many other issues,
which require preferences. Pair wise ranking is used to compare between two items and decide
which is the bigger problem. Ranking can be combined with exploring the reasons why people
consider a problem to be larger than another one or prefer one possibility to another.
Problem ranking is probably the easiest method to use and to learn more about commonly
shared problems and priorities. It is usually used trying to:
Determine the main preferences and priorities of individuals or groups for a set of items (such
as, government services, water conservation measures, etc.)
Compare the priorities of different groups against one another (men and women, young and
old, rich and poor etc.)
Informant: Among all the villagers we choose five key informants and requested them to give
us their opinion on their different problems. The name of the villagers who helped us are:
Madho Munda
Bharon Munda
Kamal Sanga
Birsha Pahan
Nageswar Lohar

15. PARTICIPATION OF THE VILLAGERS:
At first all of the villagers looked confused. But after the rapport establishment and explaining
our moto they became interested and without hesitation were ready to give data on their
problems. From all of them we took the five key informants. They gave us the main eight
problems. We asked them to put star marks as per the importance of the problems. With more
interest they gave their opinion and rated the problems.
PROBLEM RANKING:
PROBLEMS DISTRIBUTI
ON OF THE
PROBLEM
SEVERI
TY OF
THE
PROBLE
M
FREQUEN
CY OF THE
OCCURAN
CE
IMPORTAN
CE OF
RELATED
ENTERPRIS
E
RAN
K
PROBLEM OF
ELECTRICITY
***** ***** ***** **** 2
PROBLEM OF
WATER
SCARCITY
***** ***** ***** ***** 1
PROBLEM OF
HOSPITAL
**** **** **** **** 4
PROBLEM OF
AGRICULTUR
AL
PRODUCTION
***** **** **** ***** 3
PROBLEM OF
SCHOOL
*** *** ** *** 8
PROBLEM OF
NEARBY
MARKET
**** **** *** *** 6
PROBLEM OF
DISEASES OF
CATTLE
**** ***** *** *** 5
PROBLEM OF
UTILIZING
GOVT.SCHEM
ES
**** *** *** *** 7

16. PROBLEM RANKING
PROBLEM OF ELECTRICITY ***** *****
***** ****
PROBLEM OF WATER SCARCITY *****
***** ***** *****
PROBLEM OF HOSPITAL **** **** ****
****
PROBLEM OF AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTION ***** **** **** *****
PROBLEM OF SCHOOL *** *** ** ***
PROBLEM OF NEARBY MARKET ****
**** *** ***
PROBLEM OF DISEASES OF CATTLE ****
***** *** ***
PROBLEM OF UTILIZING
GOVT.SCHEMES **** *** *** ***

17. 0 5 10 15 20
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PROBLEMOF
ELECTRICITY
PROBLEMOF
WATER
SCARCITY
PROBLEMOF
HOSPITAL
PROBLEMOF
AGRICULTUR
AL
PRODUCTION
PROBLEMOF
SCHOOL
PROBLEMOF
NEARBY
MARKET
PROBLEMOF
DISEASESOF
CATTLE
PROBLEMOF
UTILIZING
GOVT.SCHEM
ES PROBLEM RANKING

18. PARTICIPATORY MAPPING
Introduction:
Participatory mapping - also called community-based mapping - is a general term used to define
a set of approaches and techniques that combines the tools of modern cartography with
participatory methods to represent the spatial knowledge of local communities.
In case of rural development field work always been considered as
a key measure for successful analysis of rural life graph, its ups and downs. Focussing on the
relevance of courses in the rural life context many researches have been done but with rare
satisfactory outcome. We the students of ARTD from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda
Educational and Research Institute went to Dungra , Khunti district for 3 days trip cum study tour.
There we practiced several PRA tools in eight different groups, but everyone had an active role in
each practice.
Informant:
Ranjit Tirkhi one of the villagers was our key informant along with Margo Sangha facilitated us
with their intense interest and hearty co-operation.
Purpose of participatory mapping: Participatory mapping serves as a tool to provide a visual
representation of information in particular geographical context.
Advantages:
It is relatively easy to conduct and easy to explain
It allows to integrate local people at a very early stage, allows to tap local knowledge, and gives
local people the feeling that their inputs are valued
It produces a quick overview of problems
It may foster holistic thinking among participants and may make the relations between different
problems more easily understandable to them
Disadvantages:
 Can be time consuming and cost intensive
 Can create dissonance and lead to conflicts under the involved stakeholders

19.  The larger the number of topics to be included, the more complex the maps will be. For
this reason, it might be better to make several maps, with one issue/indicator per map.
However, this is very time-consuming and storing such maps can pose difficulties.
Participationof the Villagers:
They at first hesitated and questioned on the relevance of the event. We were about to begin with
pushing upon their on-field participation. as it was first time to be done in their village and they
reformed themselves not familiar with such participatory events. We, with our team effort and
basic approach co-operated with the villagers and educated them on the relevance and need of
PRA.
In order to fill them with comfort and vibe of the participatory mapping we
first went for a rapport establishment, keeping in head we tried our best to create an influence and
arranged a get together and get to know each other. Then with course time we finally succeeded
in creating a bond. concept map among the villagers. Though few came forward to draw the map

20. .

21. MATRIX RANKING
An important PRA tool to assess farmer’s preference and priorities. Matrix ranking is an important
PRA tool to assess and study the preference of farmers for a particular technology over others,
with respect to crop or animal-based technologies.
MATRIX RANKING OF PADDY VARITIES
Parameters KIs Panihar DF super Lalaat Advanta
Rank Point Rank Point Rank Point Rank Point
Yield KI-1
KI-2
KI-3
KI-4
KI-5
KI-6
KI-7
Sub
total
I
I
I
III
I
I
I
4
4
4
2
4
4
4
26
II
*
*
I
*
*
*
3
*
*
3
*
*
*
6
III
*
*
II
*
*
*
2
*
*
3
*
*
*
5
IV
II
*
IV
*
II
II
1
3
*
1
*
3
3
11
Disease
resistance
KI-1
KI-2
KI-3
KI-4
KI-5
KI-6
KI-7
Sub
total
I
I
I
II
I
II
I
4
4
4
3
*
3
4
22
II
*
*
I
*
*
*
3
*
*
4
*
*
*
7
IV
*
*
VI
*
*
*
1
*
*
1
*
*
*
2
III
II
*
III
*
I
II
2
3
*
2
*
4
3
14
Profit KI-1
KI-2
KI-3
KI-4
KI-5
KI-6
KI-7
Sub
total
I
I
I
III
I
I
II
4
4
4
2
*
4
3
21
II
*
*
I
*
*
*
3
*
*
4
*
*
*
7
III
*
*
IV
*
*
*
2
*
*
1
*
*
*
3
IV
II
*
II
*
II
I
1
3
*
3
*
3
4
14
Final score I 69 III 20 IV 10 II 39

22. The above table shows the matrix of the Paddy varieties i.e. which variety gets highest ranks and
which varieties got the lowest ranks. Theses ranks are based on the priorities given by the
individuals (Farmers). These priorities are based on the cultivation of varieties, transplanting
stages, tillering stages also on its productivity and less damage by insects and pests or say more
resistance power of the varieties because if there is more resistance power then it will also increase
the productivity which finally leads to increase in income and profit. These priorities are also based
on the familiar nature of farmers on which variety. That means they must know the doses of
fertilizer (Mainly NPK), critical stages of irrigation and when to harvest the crop. Based on this
individuals(farmers) votes on the varieties given more vote or first rank to important criteria and
less vote/ low rank to less important varieties. These ranks are further given scores (from 1-4)
which means that the lowest priorities of the individuals are rank 4 and the highest and more
important variety is rank 1. The ranks are given best on mainly yield, disease resistance and profit.
Which was carried in the Dungra village, Khunti, Jharkhand. The common varieties used in that
village are Panihar, DF Super, Lalaat, and Advanta. The data has been collected from 7 village
farmers by considering their opinion and ranking on the varieties of paddy. According to the table,
it is clearly seen that the Panihaar Variety gets the highest score point 69 and other variety Advanta
got the rank 2nd with 58 score points, DF super ranked 3rd with 20 points and at last at rank 4th
resides with Lalaat.
CONCLUSION
A Panihar (Shankar) variety of rice was preferred for its higher yield of grain and straw, profitable
and disease resistant compared to other varieties. Matrix ranking provides a very simple, yet clear
method of finding out the reason for preference of a particular variety over others. This exercise
provides the plant breeders and researchers accurate information to improve upon the existing, not
so preferred varieties and bring about technological modifications and improvisations for greater
adoption in the farmer’s field and for socio-economic transformation of the rural community

23. TIMELINE
Timeline is an important PRA method quite commonly used to explore the temporal dimensions
from historical perspective. Timeline captures the chronology of events as recalled by local people.
It is drawn as a sequential aggregate of past events. It thus provides the historical landmarks of a
community individual or institutions. The important point to note here is that it is not history as
such but events of the past as perceived and recalled by the people themselves.
Applications:
Timeline helps:
1. To learn from the community what they consider to be important past events.
2. To understand from the community the historical perspective on current issues.
3. To generate discussions to changes with respect to issues we interested in, e.g., education, health,
food, security, gender, economic conditions, etc.
4. To develop a report with the villagers, since a discussion about the past of the village can be a
good non-threatening and enjoyable starting point.
Timeline of Dungra Village
KEY INFORMANTS:
Time (Year) Event
1820s Establishment of the village.
1918 Most of the forest area in the village was cleared.
1956 Establishment of First primary school.
1965 Introduction to radio.
1980 Construction of first well.
1985 Construction of first tube well.
1998 Introduction to tractor.

24.  Prabin Kumar Dutta (Primary school teacher)
 Anika Pahan (Villager)
 Sitaram Lohana (Villager)
 Eta Sagha (Villager)
 Kamal Samgha (Villager)
2000 Establishment of ICDS centre.
2001 Implementation of MGNREGA.
2002 Establishment of Health centre.
2004 Formation of voter list.
2007 Voting.
2008 Enforcement of PATTHAL GARI..
2010 Construction of Pucca road.
2011 Introduction to Television.
2013 Establishment of Night school for women.
2014 Establishment of Panchayat Bhavan
2015 Construction of pool over river Kanchi.
2016 Reconstruction of road.
2017 Formation of first SHG.
2018 Installation of sanitary pad preparing machine.

25. WEALTH RANKING
This is a particularly useful method in:-
(1) Discovering how the community members define poverty.
(2) To find who the really poor people are, and
(3) To stratify sample of wealth. This is best done once we have built up some report with the
community member.
(4) Understanding local perceptions of and criteria for wealth , well- being and inequality in a
community.
(5) Exploring difference in how different people have access and use resource.
Wealth ranking:
CATEGORY CRITERIA NO. OF HOUSEHOLD
Rich >10 acres land/ service
holder, educated, pakka
house
5
Medium 2-5 acres land, dependent on
agriculture, educated, kachha
house
70
Poor <2acres land, agriculture
labour. Uneducated, Kachha
house
45
Conclusion:
From the above chart, we were able to identify the social status of the people living in that
village, their daily livelihood and their individual household condition. We were able to
differentiate between rich, poor, medium class families in the village. By seeing their land,
monthly or annual income, food consumption throughout the year, by their education standard
and the type of school they go whether in government or private school. Through this criteria
and data collected, we can conclude that 4% of total household are rich, 58% are medium and
38% are poor.

26. OUR FINDINGS
In our daily life we learn a lot. Here at RKMVERI we have learned the importance of learning by
doing. One such learning experience occurred at Dungra village, Khuti. By the help of PRA tools
we got to learn about the daily life living schedule of the people living there. Transact walk on the
second day morning gave us the idea about the routes, lanes, different path of the village. Though
this work became easier because of the participatory map done by the villagers the night before.
During the conduction of the participatory mapping, the students allotted with other tools like
Venn diagram, wealth ranking, problem ranking were also conducted. The Venn diagram gave us
the idea of the nearby amenities. Wealth ranking showed the percentage of people belonging to
the different economic condition. Though on an average, this village can be denoted as a middle-
class village. With the help of problem ranking we realised the most frequently faced problem is
that of water scarcity followed by electricity and low production. The timeline gave us the idea of
the different formation phases of the 1820 village. Matrix ranking revealed the most widely used
variety of crop (paddy) which came out to be KI 1. The seasonality disclosed to us the most widely
produced crop. Due to low rainfall, high water consuming crop like paddy is grown only in a
limited period of time. The mostly grown crop is Bottle gourd. Thus, we got a vivid idea of village
life and the people, thanks to the cooperation and wide participation on everyone’s regard.

27. FEW MEMORIES……
WITH THE PRIMARY SCHOOLTEACHER DRAMA SESSION
HAIRCUTTING SESSION ATVILLAGE

28. RIVERKANCHI
AND US...