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                                             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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