Diary of a Rural Manager!

There is a common dialogue in bollywood films, “ Kanoon andha hota hai ” (Law is blind), this line stands cent percent true to every word in reality too. Sneha Singh was working as Young Professional in Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP) was mysteriously found dead in a hotel room in Munger, Bihar. Police primarily suspected it to be suicide, but facts point otherwise. She was found hanging from ventilator's door and in half naked condition with her private parts bleeding and body in very bad shape. Police said that she killed herself after watching "Mohabbatein". She was once Ranchi RJ who took a new path of development professional for the sake of nation building. There is need of Civil protest and use of social network. This is not about me or you; it's about justice being delivered to atleast one person. More information can be gathered her - Justiceforsneha ; We all really want a proper crime investigation rather than burial of case under carpet.

The details of the history of attempts to promote decentralized planning from the first plan onwards to the mid-eighties is summarized in the table below: Why Decentralization? The main problem of centralized governance is lack of knowledge about local circumstances due to the geographical distance. It also creates psychological distance of government officials from citizens of the remote part. Best case in favor of decentralizing government is that it creates the inclusive institutions. Autonomy for local population to have a voice in government for decision making enables development. But, Political decentralization has no meaning if there is no fiscal decentralization. Taking from the blog post written long back - As Oates (1993) explained, "the basic economic case for fiscal decentralization is the enhancement of economic efficiency: the provision of local outputs that are differentiated according to local tastes and circumstances results in higher levels of social we...

SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS:- The social inclusion process will include two steps; first to identify the left out poor, those who are not a part of any SHG/ other CBOs, and second to ensure their participation in different community-based organizations [SHGs, GPLF, etc.] at the village/ Gram Panchayat level. In this process, the project also needs to identify the extremely poor and vulnerable groups (EPVG) in the community that typically suffer from severe economic and social impediments. For this purpose, the project adopted a community-based participatory approach to identify and prioritize project beneficiaries, including ‘extreme poor and vulnerable groups, persons with disabilities, and the ‘left out poor’. The proposed methodology for the same is called situational Analysis in the project which will comprise of the following exercises: 1- Participatory identification of Poor(PIP): o Social mapping/ collection of baseline of beneficiaries o Well Being Grouping 2- SHG Grading 3- Instit...

Targeted Rural Initiatives for Poverty Termination & Infrastructure (TRIPTI) aims at enhancing the socio-economic status of the poor, especially women and disadvantaged groups, in ten districts of Orissa over a period of five years, beginning 10 February 2009. The project is assisted by the International Development Agency of the World Bank and implemented by Orissa Poverty Reduction Mission, a society under the Panchayati Raj Department of Government of Orissa. TRIPTI project under World Bank Assistance is running in 38 blocks in 10 districts that will be treated as pilot blocks for NRLM. The SHGs are at the first tier of the community institution structure. One SHG is formed constituting 10-20 women members (in case of disability or dispersed location the group size may be 5 to 20). The second tier of the structure is called Cluster Level Forum (CLF) which is an aggregation of 5 to 15 SHGs at the village/hamlet level. GPLF is the third tier of SHGs which is formed taking represe...

This Governance and Accountability (GAC) is taken directly from the PPT of world bank team. A: Awareness on GAC - Good project management is promoted by adopted governance and accountability. However, one needs to generate awareness on GAC. B: Benchmarking - The benchmarking on what can be delivered has to be done with due consultations with stakeholder who would deliver the service. C: Capacity Building - A training module needs to be developed which empowers the entire project staff and participating institutions at all level with basic activities under GAC, tools to be used under GAC. D: Deterrence - A clear cut policy which includes measures for prevention, detection and punitive action needs to be defined. D: Documentation - Documentation of procured assets, field processes, accounts, bookkeeping etc. are integral part of GAC. E: Effective Service Delivery - The deviation against the benchmarks has to be captured regarding the service delivery. F: Focal Poi...

My Belief - “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

I have decided to lend $25 each month from my salary to people in need of credit. This will be done through KIVA . KIVA is a lending platform with a 99.03% repayment rate for 340,986,325 transactions in ended loans. This loan repayment rate is much higher than any bank. I will decide later on repayments that how much of my money will be further used either as a loan or development aid. This is my Profile at KIVA , so that one can always check the authenticity of the claim. A story of how a small loan from you can change the life of a family How Kiva Works ( http://www.kiva.org/about/how ) 1- Make a loan: You make a loan on KIVA. All KIVA loans are made possible by our Field Partners, who vet, administer, and disburse each loan. 2- Get updates: Throughout the life of the loan, you will see progress updates from Kiva through your e-mail, and if you come back to the site. 3- Get paid back:  As the borrower repays the loan, the money becomes available in your account. This ...

Launched on 1st April 1999, Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) was an integrated scheme for providing opportunities of self employment to the rural poor. Like any other government schemes, this was also prone to corruption and failure. Swarna Jayanti Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) has been renamed as National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) with added provision. I was reading notification of RBI on National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) issued way back in June 2013. Uneven spread of SHGs, defunct SHGs and high attrition rate of members were the main issues faced in functioning of SHG in SGSY. This has been tackled through Universalisation of SHGs. Setting up of federations of SHGs is the salient feature of NRLM that can ensure monitoring and validation at community level. Identification of Swarozgari was major source of corruption for Bank, Block and District level officers. A lot of money was taken as bribe for clearance before proper credit reached the beneficiary. Even non ...