Rural Engagement Programme 2021

Orientation

Saripalli Bhavani Shankar

25th October 2021
 Checklist

• District Contact Sheet

❖ Parents and Students
❖ Teachers
❖ Officials
• Questionnaires link
• Response sheets link
• Whatsapp Groups
❖ Coordination and Trouble-shooting
❖ Individual Teams
• Team Progress sheet

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 Contents

• About REP
• Background
• Project
• Scope
• Deliverables
• Learnings
• Dos and Don’ts
• Questions

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 About REP
• The REP is a pioneering and innovative programme
initiated by IIM Indore over a decade ago in 2009
• The programme spreads over a week during which
student teams stay in a village in Madhya Pradesh and
contribute to a public programme
• Objective
❖ Draw insight on linkages between society, govt. and business
❖ Experience functioning of rural economy and rural life
❖ Engage with rural administration on an issue of importance
❖ Analyse how a public crisis is addressed in a rural set-up

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Background
• Over the last 5 years the REP has focused on the issue of
sanitation, water scarcity and education.
• Last year, student teams from IIM Indore visited 103
villages, and helped develop Water Management plans
• This year, unfortunately due to pandemic, it is not possible
to organize the village stays
• However, we want to give the students an experience of
how the pandemic has affected rural parts of the state
• The idea also is to channelize the strength of our faculty
and students towards a project with great social benefit

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Project
The subject of REP 2021 is
“Covid 19”
• Participants will conduct phone interviews with citizens of
Madhya Pradesh
• Study will bring findings that can help understand the
present situation of Covid appropriate behaviour.
• Broad Objectives
--- Understand the adherence of Covid guidelines by citizens
--- Understand the constraints faced any, reasons behind them
--- Come up with recommendations to address the constraints

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Madhya Pradesh

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Scope per District

• Two teams of 6 students will study ONE district

• Database of 600 to 700 contacts of citizens from each

district

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Deliverables

DATA
DATA REPORT
CLEANING &
COLLECTION WRITING
ANALYSIS

Oct 25th to 28th Oct 29th to Oct 31st Submission: 3rd Nov

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Evaluation

1. District Report

2. Video presentation of Report (5-10 mins)

3. Individual Work Done report

Evaluation: Pass/ Fail

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Project Support
• Contact information of respondents
• Survey Questionnaire (Structured and Unstructured)
• WhatsApp Group for Individual Teams
• Trouble-shooting WhatsApp constituted of Faculty, PGP
Office and Team Leaders

Faculty Officers
Prof. Saripalli Bhavani Shankar (REP Mr. K.R. Unni (PGP Office)
Coordinator) Mr. Alpesh Bhunjiya (PGP
Prof. Ajit Phadnis (HSS area) Office)

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Dos
• Survey timings: 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
• Start in the morning, do not leave work till late in the day
• Begin the Questionnaire with a brief introduction
• Find out whether SMS from IIMI was received
• Ask Questions in Hindi (use Hindi text for support)
• Record-keeping
❖Next to every number you tried, note the result (Success, Not
interested to talk, Number not working, Asked to call back later)
❖Report of every team member: Phone numbers attempted, Success
• Do the survey sincerely, it has important implications
• Be polite, and most importantly be patient!

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Don’ts
• Do not call any respondent beyond the timing given
• Do not react to any information given, even though it may
not align with your thoughts
• Do not try to solve any social or political problem over the
phone
• Do not deviate from the ethics of conducting the survey
• Do not record the call without respondent’s permission

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Contact Information

Contact level REP Support Team

1st level Team Leader (TEAM WHATSAPP GROUP)

PGP Office
2nd level (Mr. Unni K.R- 94253-12436,
Mr. Alpesh Bhunjiya- 77480-86948

DISTRICT WHATSAPP GROUP

Prof. Bhavani Shankar (9589329857)
3rd level
Prof. Ajit Phadnis (7470341981)
Ms. Swati Patidar (8871198438)

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Questions?

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