| Evaluation
Study of lndira
Awaas Yojana |
I
was associated in the formatting the questionaire according to the
requirement of Computer & Programming of the data collectioed.
Designed,
Developed and Processed various output reports based on collected
data of PSI OMNI Computer [AMD 2901C, PDP 11 based using OMNI
COBOL, DBMS (RTFILE) and Spreadsheet (Visicalc)] |
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INDIRA
AWAS YOJNA |
| Evaluation
study of Indira Awas Yojana
being implemented
under Rural Landless Employment Gurantee Programme in
the states of Madhya
Pradesh, Gujrat, Haryana & West Bengal. The Study was
sponsored by Department of rural Development, Ministry of
Agriculture, Govt. of India.
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ABOUT
THE SCHEME |
| Indira
Awaas Yojna seeks to provide houses ill rural areas especially
for landless labour, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. The
scheme harnesses the selected beneficiaries In the
construction of their own houses to fulfill its twin
objective or constructing houses and generate employment for them
(the
beneficiaries).
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EVALUATION
OF |
| The scheme was to be
evaluated on the following points:- |
| a) |
That the selected
beneficiaries are those which have
been envisaged in the scheme. |
| b) |
That the house have been constructed according
to the design and the
requirements of the beneficiaries. |
| c) |
That the additional employment
has been generated in the construction
of house and that
this
employment has been generated by the targeted
group namely the landless labourers, etc.
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| d) |
The
local material
has been used in
the
construction of houses.
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| e) |
That the labour -intensive technology has been employed
for the construction of houses.
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| f) |
That the adequate infrastructure
facilities has been
provided to establish model habitates ; and
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| g) |
That the Indira Awaas Yojna has
been adequately dove tailed
with other poverty alleviation
programmes.
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HOW
THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED |
| The data for study was
collected at four levels namely: |
| 1. State Level
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| Secondary
level data was collected to find out the overall
position of the
scheme as being implemented in the state.
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| 2.
District level
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| District
level data of selected districts from four states was collected in
detail to find out the financial allocations and expenditure undertaken under the scheme
along with extent to which the physical targets have bean met.
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| 3.
Block level
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| Block
level data of sampled blocks in the selected district was
collected to gather information about the allotment arid
expenditure as well as the various items on which such
expenditure was incurred.
Detailed information or employment generated and houses constructed too was
collected.
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| 4.
Village Level
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| Village
level data was collected through field study and that was
primary in nature. Ill this level beneficiaries were contacted
and individual and group interview of the same were conducted to
collect facts about their income, occupation, caste and the
houses constructed for them. Opinion about the scheme and house
too was solicited.
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SCOPE
OF STUDY |
| Study
was to be conducted in Four states viz. Madhya Pradesh,
Haryana, Gujrat & West Bengal. In Madhya Pradesh 8 district were selected and 2 blocks from
each of these
district. Of these 2 blocks all the
construction sites were taken which were 2 per block. In
this way 32 Indira Awaas sites were
canvassed in M.P. Similarly in
Gujrat 4 districts, 9
blocks and 16 sites were canvassed.
In Haryana 2 districts,
7 blocks and 7 sites were canvassed. In West Bengal 3
district with 6 blocks and 72 villages were canvassed. In
this way 17 districts with 38 blocks and 127 sites were surveyed.
In all 1497 houses and beneficiaries were surveyed in all the
four States.
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| Systems
Flow Chart:
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DATA
PROCESSING |
| Volume
of Data
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:
15000 records |
| Language
used |
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COBOL |
| Hardware
used |
:
PSI OMNI |
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1. CPU |
: AMD 2901C
(PDP-11 Arch) |
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2. Memory |
: 1 MB RAM
1.2 MB Floppy Drive
2 x 1.2 MB FDD
400 cps DMP Seikosha
400 cps DMP Honeywell |
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