Process further followed in my project – System to support NREGA/NREGS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1)  Again I went for  Contextual Inquiry with all stakeholders involved under NREGS  of  Thane district( Jawhar Block). This was done in order to understand the system better and to find the different pattern in the work  followed by other districts of Maharashtra

2) The other study involved going through media, parallel research, and report writings on the system as well as similar systems

3) I then prepared a rough flow model and sequence model to understand the different activities of all the stakeholders. This helped me to understand this complex system in a better way

4) Again the problem identified were listed and verified with the data online and physically at district, block and Gram panchayat level

About NREGA and my start

In short NREGA stands for National Rural Employment Guarantee Act currently active in India. It guaranties 100 days employment to a rural household every year. The aim of the act is to upgrade economical conditions of the rural India, to make villages self sustainable economically and prevent migration into the cities.

I decided to take up my project in the area of NREGA when I met people at a NGO called SEARCH at Gadhchiroli who were working with the village people to help them to understand and make full use of the benefits of this system.

On the contextual inquiry with few people involved in NREGA at different levels, I got some insights and problem statements and decided to make effort in interventions required to address those problems and to create new possibilities in order to strengthen the system.

As the whole system is very vast and complex I am trying to put each and every possible aspect related to it and to understand it in a graphical manner. My next post will contain the model I am acquiring to understand and about my selected user. Feedbacks are welcome