Team ID: 405996

Case Number: 4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Tata Trusts aim to achieve their smart village mission of 2020. The villages being talked about are
tribal villages who have lived through decades of poverty and underdevelopment. The aim is to improve
livelihood and provide irreversible and sustainable ways for progress.

SITUATION ANALYSIS
The Central Indian Tribal belt is a home to 65% of the tribal community. Tata Trust aims to work for these
communities spread across Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa,
Jharkhand and West Bengal, who have faced marginal growth opportunities. The core focus within the
initiative is towards developing sustainable livelihood opportunities for the tribal communities and ensure
that their income levels are enhanced substantially.

PROBLEM STATEMENT(S)
Improve livelihood of tribes by:
1. Ensuring agricultural productivity stabilisation and growth
2. Creating Marketing Linkages
3. Improving Healthcare
4. Providing alternate employment opportunities
5. Better education facilities
6. Using technology and banking (microfinance) facilities

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
AGRICULTRE PRODUCTIVITY
1. Sharing best agriculture practices among different villages
2. Collaborative farming
3. Providing timely information about weather conditions and other agriculture related activities
4. Production of organic products
5. Promoting animal husbandry
6. Providing farming machinery
7. Soil fertility management and crop rotation
8. Promoting aquaculture
9. Helping reduce crop damage
10. Using different methodologies according to water scenarios in different states
11. Using alternate techniques to provide water for irrigation

MARKET LINKAGES
12. Public distribution centres
13. Single representation in market to fight against exploitation
14. Predicting demand and production for various crops

HEALTHCARE
15. Setting up free camps for checkups for various water borne and common diseases
16. Create awareness about good sanitation habits
17. Provide more number of toilets in areas where there is lack of
18. Providing clean water with the help of Ijal plants
19. Setting up tele-checkups for villages
20. Providing villages with subsidized low cost medicines

EDUCATION
21. Hand holding troublesome and talented kids
22. Online lectures and courses in regional languages
23. Educating elders on different fronts
24. Teaching production and marketing of regional products like handicrafts and art

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
25. Bringing successful tribal women to share their success story
26. Providing more power in hands of women and making them self-dependent
TECHNOLOGY
27. Providing cheap internet services
28. Providing the help of simplified data ( Regional language) for multipurpose use
29. Providing solar energy in form of electricity to households

BANKING
30. Financial literacy to youth, women uneducated and elderlies
31. Provide small loans to set up businesses
32. Promote zero balance accounts
33. Educating villagers on financial planning

ACTION AND CONTINGENCY PLAN(S)

PORTABLE WATER AND SANITATION
1. Aligning with PMs plan of toilets we should promote building toilets. Meanwhile, we can set up E-toilets(
Remote) and Sulabhs
2. Nukad nataks and camps for increasing best practices awareness
3. We should tie up with http://www.safewaternetwork.org/ to provide clean and cheap water

MARKET LINKAGES
1. Setting up cooperatives and hubs to have a single representation
2. Use big data to predict the demand for crops which will help in clearing the perishable goods first
3. Using data analysis to determine the high commercial value crops

IRRIGATION FACILITY
1. Adopting drip system techniques for water and applying rain water harvesting to collect water for
harvesting
4. Growing crops which have higher value and require less water like Cabbage, Sprouts, peas, Lentils,
broccoli, Cauliflower, turnips, corn and lettuce according to different land type
HEALTHCARE
1. Tying up with good city doctors for online checkups for common prevalent diseases
2. Setting up quarterly camps for checkups for diseases like Diabetes and water borne diseases
3. Create a single hub for subsidized medicines for multiple villages
AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY
1. video sessions/ video conferencing/ community meetings to share best agricultural practices
2. Using mobile apps and community notices for weather information
3. Make available better machinery on lease
4. Pest management system to help against crop damages
5. Focusing on Aquaculture and animal husbandry
6. Camps for awareness of crop rotation
EDUCATION
1. Evening classes for adults and elders
2. Recorded lectures
3. Emphasis on regional language support
4. Vocational training

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
1. Establishing women cooperatives and self help groups
2. Providing loans to enterprising women
3. Camps for E literacy and financial independence
4. Promoting activities like Embroidery, art work, pottery craft
TECHNOLOGY
1. Solar power enabled systems for house and street lighting and schools and medical institutions
2. Collaboration with ISPs
3. Providing technological help on hybrid crops and high yield products
BANKING
1. Financial literacy camps
2. micro ATMS
3. Alignment with Jan Dhan Yojna and short term credit