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Table of Contents

Introduction: ........................................................................................................................................... 1

About the Special Camp .......................................................................................................................... 1

Groups of Volunteers .............................................................................................................................. 2

Inaugural Programme ............................................................................................................................. 6

Major Activities Undertaken ................................................................................................................... 9

Activity – 1: Meeting with Villagers and Panchayat Representatives, Narsingi ................................. 9

Activity – 2: Transact Walk .................................................................................................................. 9

Activity -3: Social Resource Mapping ................................................................................................ 10

Activity – 4: Force Field Analysis ....................................................................................................... 15

Activity – 5: Socio Economic Survey.................................................................................................. 16

Major Findings ...................................................................................................................................... 18

Valedictory Programme of the Camp ................................................................................................... 19

NSS Special Camp Report at Narsingi Village, R.R. District 25th to 31st March 2016

NSS Cell, Maulana Azad National Urdu University | Introduction: 1

Introduction:

National Service Scheme (NSS) Cell Maulana Azad National Urdu University has organized

a One Week Special Camp at Narsingi Village that comes in R.R. District, Telangana. It is

imperative to mention that the Narsingi has been adopted by the university under Unnat

Bharat Scheme. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is a flagship programme of Ministry of Human

Resource Development (MHRD) an exclusive initiative by the Prime Minister of India to

develop villages as the Adarsh Gram. The university proactively responded to the concern and

set up its Unnat Bharat Cell. The Unnat Bharat Cell, Maulana Azad National Urdu University

has identified and selected Narsingi Village and adopted the same with the joint and

exemplary efforts of Shri. M. Raghunandan Rao, District Collector Ranga Reddy District and

Shri. K. Prasanna Ashok Yadav, Gram Pradhan of Narsingi Village. As volunteers of NSS

Cell MANUU regularly organize different activities in and around the campus, this time the

volunteers planned to organize a special camp in the village which the university has adopted.

The objective of this camp was to begin the interface with community, rapport building with

community members and developing understanding of the village keeping in view the the

rationale of village adoption i.e. develop long term institutional relation with the community

and contribution to the upliftment of people therein.

About the Special Camp

Dr. Mohammad Fariyad, Programme

Coordinator visited the village on 11th

March 2016 and important stakeholders

including K.Prasanna Ashok Yadav,

Pradhan Narsingi village, ward members

and other influential members of the

community. He discussed the plan of

organizing special camp at the village. The

plan and its utility was appreciated the

villagers and they agreed for the camp to be

organized from The NSS Cell chocked out

the plan for the Special Camp where major focus 25th

March 2016 to 31st March 2016. After

Orientation of NSS Volunteers for Special Camp


NSS Cell, Maulana Azad National Urdu University | Groups of Volunteers 2

the confirmation was made, a meeting with NSS volunteers was called on dated 24.03.2016.

In this meeting a brief presentation was made to the volunteers and plan for the camp was

discussed. The volunteers excitingly participated in the discussion and planned the roadmap

for camp along with guided supervision of Mr. Md Israr Alam, Programme Officer, NSS Cell

MANUU. Finally a week long plan for the special camp was chocked out which is as follow:

Figure-1: Activity Outline for for the Camp

S. NO. Day Date Activities

1. Day-1 25.03.2016 Meeting with Village Leaders and

Resource Persons Transact Walk

2. Day-2 26.03.2016 Visit to Anganwadies

Visit to Schools

3. Day-3 27.03.2016 Social Resource Mapping

4. Day-4 28.03.2016 Socio Economic Survey

5. Day-5 29.03.2016 Socio Economic Survey

6. Day-6 30.03.2016 Force Field Exercise of Women

Health

7. Day-7 31.03.2016 Valedictory Programme

The given activities are the mix of both participatory research technique and pure

quantitative research technique so designed to get both factual and statistical

information in a stipulated time period of one week. The participatory technique would

help in involving the community people and would getting actual information about

their issues and problems in more detailed and descriptive manner whereas the

quantitative methods of data collection would help in getting broader picture of

community in figurative manner.

Groups of Volunteers

In the meeting held on 24th March 2016 almost 100 volunteers turned up willing to

participate in the camp. Out of which 77 volunteers were selected for camp. Programme

Offier, NSS Cell MANUU formed group in such a way that one group should consist of

volunteers from different department, different courses and different language. Further, each

group consisted both male and female volunteers. Once the groups were formed, two group



leaders were selected from each group for better coordination and delegation of

responsibilities. Details of volunteers groups are as follows:

Group – 1

S. No Name of the Volunteer Class Remark

1. Mansoor Alam M ED

2. Aquib Kamal M ED

3. Moazzam Ali M.B.A.

4. Amir Rashid MCJ

5. Mohd Husnain MCJ

6. Afreen Sultana D El Ed

7. Alia Sultana D El Ed

8. Saba Naaz B Ed

9. Safiullah Shaikh MSW

10. Safiur Rahman MSW

11. Seema Ali B Ed

Group – 2


1. Ayoobul Hoda Faisal MBA

2. Osama Nasem M Ed

3. Aslam Javed M Ed

4. Mohd Salman MCJ

5. Owais Ahmad Usmani MCJ

6. Farhan Fatma B Ed

7. Ishrat Jahan B Ed

8. Shaikh Javeria D El Ed

9. Shahneer Akhtar MSW

10. Ibne Hasan MSW

11. Md Shamim Mustafa B Ed



Group – 3


1. Tahayyat Kulsum MCJ

2. Ahsan Khan MCJ

3. Ghazala Parween B Ed

4. Rukhsar Tabassum B Ed

5. B Sumaiyya Tabassum D El Ed

6. Shaikh Shamshad Begum D El Ed

7. Rizwanul Hasan M. Ed

8. Ishteyaque MBA

9. Md Quisar Alam B Ed

10. Mohd Ikram MSW

11. Saddam Hussain MSW

Group – 4


1. Fazle Matin M Ed

2. Riyaz Ahmad M Ed

3. Mohd Asif M. Ed

4. Shareeqa Bi D El Ed

5. Madeeha Mahen D El Ed

6. Mohd Amirullah MBA

7. Aram Rahman B Ed

8. Nusrat Bano B Ed

9. Adul Razzaque B Ed

10. Shafeequr Rahman MSW

11. Abul Sattar MSW



Group – 5


1. Mah Jabeen D El Ed

2. Syeda Meraj Fatima D El Ed

3. Naushaba B Ed

4. Rizwan Shafi wani MCJ

5. Saba Anjum MCJ

6. Mohammad Uzair M Ed

7. Husain Reza MBA

8. Md Saddam Hussain B Ed

9. Faraz Moin B Tech

10. Saddam Husain MSW

11. Haseebur Rahman MSW

Group – 6


1. Md Qasim MCJ

2. Nishat Kalim MCJ

3. Tarannum Parween B Ed

4. Sanjeeda Khatoon B Ed

5. Md Asghar Ali M Ed

6. Shah Saood B Sc

7. Md Quaisar Alam D El Ed

8. Surfaraz Alam D El Ed

9. Faiyaz Ahmad M.A.

10. Ahmad Raza M.A.

11. Zeeshanullah MSW


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Group – 7


1. Tahmena Begum D. El. Ed

2. Maria Sultana D. El. Ed

3. Habeeba Firdous D. El .Ed

4. Abdul Bari B. Ed

5. Karamat Hussain D. Ed

6. Rehan Akhtar D. El .Ed

7. Mohd Zahid Ansari M. A. Sociology

8. Mohd Daud M.A. Translation

9. Ahmad Sarjeel MCJ

10. Banoth Sriram M.A. English

11. Abdul Razzak D. El .Ed

12. Shaikh Zakir Hussain D. El. Ed

Inaugural Programme

The Camp began with the inaugural function at Gram Panchayat Bhawan at Narsingi. The

programme was presided by Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Registrar, MANUU. The village Pradhan

All stakeholders during the beginning of One Week Camp



along with his team of ward members were present. From University, all members of Unnat

Bharat Cell were also presented. Programme Coordinator, NSS Cell MANUU has welcomed

all the guest and dignitaries and set the tone of the camp whereas Mr. Md Israr Alam,

Programme Officer, NSS Cell has explained the programme schedule of the whole camp in

detail. Prof. Mohd Shahid, Nodal Officer, UBA Cell explained the long term vision of the

university-village collaboration in view of making strong intervention required for the village

betterment and development.

The village Pradhan, K Prasanna Ashok Yadav was overwhelmed by university intervention

and promised to extend all possible support to the university. He mentioned about that Hindu-

Muslim live together in the village and their unity is strength for them. He also shown his

concern for the education through Urdu medium and that there is a Urdu medium school in

the village which he wished to be for 10th

class at least so that Urdu speaking community

would have better access to education within the village itself. He also encouraged the young

volunteers who decided to devote their time for village development and promised for all

cooperation and facilitation to the volunteers.

Shri. K. Prasanna Ashok Yadav, Prdhan, Narsingi addresses the villagers and volunteers



Prof. Mohd Shahid, Nodal Officer UBA Cell, MANUU put light on the concept of Ministry

of Human Resource Development about Village Adoption by Universities and also

appreciated visionary initiative of the present Govt. for making it a flagship programme.

The presence of Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Registrar Maulana Azad National Urdu University has

made the programme very effective, delightful and grand as his elegant and appealing speech

made a deep, thoughtful and objective impression on all the stakeholders including volunteers

and villagers. He started with the point that India is the country of villages and we all should

honestly look for finding ways to develop our villages and in return the county would

automatically prosper. He stressed university-village relation not a one day or week affair but

a prolonged relation and bond that would continue and prosper. And for this he ensured for a

deep and close involvement from the side of the university. While addressing students, he

highlighted that such programme and activities are extremely useful for students in ways to

develop their comprehension about village, grassroots issues and various systems of

operations which would enrich their intellectual capacity and leadership skills.

Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Registrar, MANUU interacting with volunteers and villagers


NSS Cell, Maulana Azad National Urdu University | Major Activities

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Major Activities Undertaken

1. Meeting with Villagers and Panchyat Representatives, Narsingi

2. Transact Walk

3. Social Resource Mapping

4. Force Field Analysis

5. Socio Economic Study

Activity – 1: Meeting with Villagers and Panchayat Representatives, Narsingi

After the inaugural, a meeting with ward members, UBA representatives of university and

NSS official of the university was

convened at the Panchayat office. In

this meeting important resource

persons were identified who would

assist and facilitate the volunteers

for further activities and would

accompany volunteers in doing

Transact Walks (to move around the

village and develop familiarity with

the whole village, its roads and

localities, etc) and Social Resource Mapping (to develop a map of village that would work as

the bird eye view for the whole village, and to locate various resources of the village on the

same map).

Activity – 2: Transact Walk

All volunteers were divided into four large groups and each group was allotted resource

Meeting with ward members and community

representatives

Volunteers doing Transact walk in Narsingi Village



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person from the community who facilitate the volunteers for the transact walk. In this walk

volunteers had to walk all around the village and prepared a route map for the village. It

helped volunteers to get familiar about which road goes to where and who live where, etc. All

the groups were sent in four directions of East, west, north and South. In this way, the

findings from all the groups helped the volunteers to develop final route map of the village.

The findings of this walk helped the volunteers to develop social resource mapping of the

village.

Activity -3: Social Resource Mapping

Social Resource Mapping is a useful participatory technique of developing sound

understanding about community settlement, its resources; major community infrastructure at

Volunteer with community resource person Mr. Khaleel during Transact Walk

Volunteers preparing Social Resource Mapping



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glance and that is because this tool is called bird eye view of the community as one can easily

denote things given on the map. It not only provides the understanding of the community, but

the process itself helps in involving community members and ensuring their participation.

Different groups of volunteers gathered the community members at different places like

Anganwadi, Schools and Community Halls, etc. and involved them developing the map of

their village. Hence, this tool appeared to be very effective mean of developing rapport with

the community members and help in blending a positive relation between the volunteers and

community people.

In this process, volunteers got a lot of information about settlement, pattern, BPL houses,

School, Anganwadies, Bazar, religious places, play ground for children etc. a glimpse of

resource mapping can be better viewed through the given pictures of Social Resource

Mapping developed by the volunteers in the village:



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Social Resource Mapping – 1



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Social Resource Mapping Two



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Final Social Resource Mapping of Narsingi Village



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Activity – 4: Force Field Analysis

Force Field Analysis is a useful decision-making technique which is frequently used in

participatory research. It helps researchers to make a decision by analyzing the forces for (or

enabling factors) and forces against (or disabling factors) a given condition, and it helps you

communicate the

reasoning behind your

decision. This is used

to examine various

social issues and

problems from

people’s points of

view meaning thereby

what and how

community members

think about their

problems. The role of

facilitator is to

encourage and help

participants to discuss

and explore the

factors related to their

problem i.e. the

disabling factors and

at the same they are

also guided and

assisted to discuss and

find out plausible way

out to change the

condition from

negative to positive i.e. the disabling factors. As the main purpose of the camp was to find

out problems faced by the community members, the volunteer undertook this exercise at two

Force Field on Women Health



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levels. One group (consisted of female volunteers) carried the exercise with the lactating

mothers at Anganwadi Centre along with the Anganwadi staff and one at Urdu Primary

School with school teachers and parents of the drop out children.

Activity – 5: Socio Economic Survey

A socio economic survey was done by the volunteers where 150 households were

covered randomly in the village on the basis of observation (housing conditions- those

having asbestos house with no concrete roof, etc.). For this a one pager interview

schedule was designed by the volunteers. The schedule is majorly divided four parts.

The first part consist of the background information of the family, second part consists

of the family profile that would help in assessing the occupation profile, income level,

people in productive age in a household, children education, dropout, etc. the third part

of the interview schedule focuses on details of assets owned by the family. The filled in

interview schedule will be analysed in coming days.

Based on the findings of this pilot sample study as well as the findings of PRA

exercises, a thorough presentation will be delivered in village where all

stakeholders would be present including District Collector, Village Pradhan and

his team, villagers, and university representatives. On the basis of the presentation, a

detailed course of action will be drafted where major focus would be given to women,

children and disabled.

A sample of socio economic survey interview schedule is given in the next page:



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Household Socio-Economic Study Interview Schedule

Special Camp Narsinghi Village

Background Information

Respondent Name : Surveyor Volunteer Name:

Relationship with head of household: Date of survey:

Hamlet (Mohallah) Name: Ward Number

House: Kachcha/Packka House: Rented/ Owned

Family Profile

S.No Name Relation with

Respondent

Age Sex Education Occupation Education

details of

Children School

Going/ Not

Going/Dro

p Out

Govt./Private

/Urdu

Medium

Assets Details: Which of these assets do you have?

Fan TV Fridge

Sewing Machine Dressing Table Cooler

Land or house at another place Two/Four wheeler

Accessibility to Services

1 Ration Card White/Pink/No

2 Where do you go to for regular health care needs?

MBBS doctor/govt clinic /nearby hospital/others

3 Satisfaction with government health centers Satisfied Not Satisfied

4 Do you have immunization cards for your children? (if there are children below 5 year age in the HH)

5 Does anyone in the family have any serious health problems? (e.g. TB, handicap, heart, diabetes, BP, asthma or any other chronic disease)

6 Source of Drinking Water

Signature of the Surveyor


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Major Findings

The Gram Panchayat Narsingi is located at a distance of 8 km (approx.) from MANUU Main

Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderbad. This Gram Panchayat comes under Rajendranagar Mandal

of District Rangareddy, Telangana. Narsingi Pin code is 500075 and postal head office is

C.B.I.T. As per Census 2011, it has a population of 9449 out of which 66% are Hindus, 32%

Muslims and 2% Christians. Males are 4551 and Females are 4898 living in Houses.

Children’s below 6 years are 1292. In terms of socio-religious communities, the majority

population belongs to Malas, Madigas, Yadavas and backward Muslims. People in Narsingi

speak both Telugu and Urdu. The key informants provide that the population of the Narsingi

is now approximately 15000. Mr. K. Prasanna Ashok Yadav is presently the Sarpanch. A very

famous Lord Sai Baba temple lies at the midst of the village near Narsingi Burj .

Kokapet (2 KM), Neknampur (2 KM), Manchirevula (4 KM), Gandipet (4 KM), Manikonda

(4 KM) are the nearby Villages to Narsingi. Narsingi is surrounded by Moinabad Mandal

towards west, Hyderabad Mandal towards East, Ramchandrapuram Mandal towards North,

Quthbullapur Mandal towards North.

Hyderabad, Singapur, Sangareddy, Farooqnagar are the nearby Cities to Narsingi.

This Place is in the border of the Rangareddi District and Hyderabad District. Demographics

of Narsingi

The village has witnessed high degree of urbanization due to its proximity with GHMC

periphery and Nehru outer ring road (ORR). In consequence, the agriculture has just vanished,

and the real estate business is at peak resulting into high disparity among the natives. There is

a glaring prosperity among the few and acute deprivation among the majority population.

There is high struggle for livelihood and adverse effects on the education of the children. The

large concentration of marginalized groups, their acute deprivation amidst prosperity and

pathetic educational scenario are key factors that makes a strong ground for an appropriate

and qualified intervention so that the conditions of the underserved can be improved. At this

point the university-village partnership can be instrumental in achieving the goal.

Major source of livelihoods are manual labour, famous buffalo market, grossery shops,

village hat (every Thursday), mechanics, painter, mesons, etc.

Based on interaction with villagers, community transact walk and social resource mapping,

volunteers also identified educational institution of the village: One Primary School (Telugu


NSS Cell, Maulana Azad National Urdu University | Valedictory

Programme of the Camp 19

medium), One High School (Telugu Medium), One Junior College for Girls (Telugu

Medium), One Upper Primary School (Urdu Medium) and Nine Private Schools were

identified.

The same exercise helped the volunteers to get aware about the services provided by the

government. The volunteers identified 8 Anganwadis, 4 PDS Shops, one Rural Health Centre

and One Veterinary Hospital.

Valedictory Programme of the Camp

The valedictory function of the special camp was organized in the University on dated

31.03.2016 at Siayid Hamid Library, MANUU. It was a very successful event as Shri. Ashok

Yadav, Pradhan, Narsingi participated along with all the ward members and other influential

community members. From University, Registrar; the Dean, School of Education and

Training; Principle, Polytechnic; and faculty from various department and centre were




present. Dr. Mohammad Fariyad welcomed all the guests and the dignitaries. Mr. Md Israr

Alam presented the major findings of the one week camp. While presenting the findings, it

was stressed that there is much need to focus on education specially the Urdu medium school

where drop out is major problem in association with parents negligence.

Mr. Mohd Ikram, volunteer NSS Cell MANUU has explained in detail the process of doing

different exercise and its utility for doing baseline studies and need assessment exercise.

Safiullah Shaikh, volunteer, NSS also presented his experience of spending time with

volunteers of different department and stressed on how the heterogeneity of group helped in

developing diverse form ideas and views. They learned working with group. Tahyyat Kulsum,

volunteers NSS shared her experiences and highlighted issues of drinking water and women

poor health.

Dr. Shakeel Ahmad,

Registrar, MANUU

overwhelmed by the

presence of villagers in

the programme and

indicated it as a symbol of

effective Narsingi-

MANUU relations. He

appreciated the efforts of

the volunteers in general

and girls in specific. He

ensured all effective support and activities possible at the university end would be extended to

the village. He also emphasised the need for active community participation and involvement

to this end.

Prof. Fatima Begum, Dean, School of Education and Training also assured that students and

faculty from her school would dedicate all their possible support and cooperation in

improving the educational condition of the village and would develop better educational

climate in the village.




At the end of the programme all the volunteers were given Special Camp Certificates.

Certificate distribution to volunteers

THANKS!!!




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