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leArning
by doing
Making Chhindwara district in
Madhya Pradesh oDf helped
Minal Ingale understand the
working and impact of large scale
social change projects
hen she was assigned to Madhya
W Pradesh’s Chhindwara district as a
Zila Swachh Bharat Prerak (ZSBP) in
August 2017, Minal Ingale saw this as an
opportunity to do what she really loved. Hailing
from Chandrapur in adjoining Maharashtra
state, and armed with a masters in social work
from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Minal
had been actively involved in social sector
projects since 2013. “I always wanted to work in
bigger projects run by the Government which
impacts people positively,” she says.
Chhindwara is a largely tribal district. Its
economy boasts a few medium-sized industries
while the rural population depends mainly on
agriculture. Of the 11 blocks in the district, five
are predominantly tribal and forestry products
are their primary source of livelihood.
The main problem that Minal faced when
she joined was that there was no clarity about
the experience [of who was eligible for the government incentive
working as a prerak] has for building toilets under the Swachh Bharat
changed me as a person, Mission - Gramin (SBM-G), and who wasn’t.
and also shaped my Quite a few poor and eligible households had
been left out in the baseline survey (BLS)
perspective on how such conducted in 2011. What’s more, many among
work should happen. I am those who were listed in the BLS had no idea
thankful to tata trusts for about the incentive they were entitled to. Minal
this great initiative.” knew that the issue could only be resolved
through a fresh survey where the eligible
Minal Ingale, prerak and non-eligible households were accurately
Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh classified. But a bigger challenge was that people
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