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How it works

How it works

The platform is built around one loop. Everything else exists to make this loop repeatable and visible.

  1. 01

    Post

    Anyone · any language

    A resident reports a problem or proposes an idea, in their own language, from a basic phone on a weak connection. No complicated sign-up.

  2. 02

    Tag

    Domain × place

    It is tagged by civic domain (water, roads, health) and by place level: ward, village, block, district.

  3. 03

    Route

    To the owning office

    It goes to the office that owns it, with a reference number. A public clock starts for acknowledgement.

  4. 04

    Refine

    Neighbours + stewards

    Neighbours add facts, photos and support, or propose alternatives. A steward groups related posts into one plan.

  5. 05

    Decide

    Community vote

    The community reviews and votes. The plan goes to the implementer and its status is tracked in public.

  6. 06

    Remember

    Long-term plan

    Plans and outcomes roll up into the place’s three-to-five year development plan, revised every year.

01

Places

Every post belongs to the most specific place that applies and is visible at every level above it: state, district, block (mandal, taluka or tehsil), gram panchayat or urban ward, village or locality.

02

Civic domains

Every post carries one primary domain. Each domain maps to the authorities that own it in your place.

  • Water

    drinking supply, borewells, tanks, canals, irrigation

  • Sanitation and waste

    drains, toilets, garbage collection, sewage

  • Roads and transport

    roads, bridges, bus service, street lighting

  • Power

    supply hours, transformers, connections

  • Health

    PHC, ambulance, vaccination, disease alerts

  • Education

    schools, teachers, anganwadi, scholarships

  • Livelihoods and agriculture

    crops, storage, processing, markets, credit, skills, jobs

  • Land and housing

    records, housing schemes, encroachment

  • Safety and welfare

    policing, women's safety, pensions, ration, disability support

  • Environment

    floods, drought, forests, pollution

  • Governance and services

    certificates, grievance handling, meetings, information access

03

What a plan looks like

A plan is a one-page document a steward writes from a group of related posts. It has the same shape everywhere so that any office, cooperative or funder can act on it.

Place and domain
Levels and primary domain
Problem statement
Three to five sentences in the words of the people affected, with numbers
Who is affected
Households, people, area; which posts and how much support
Options considered
The ideas discussed, with votes, and why one was chosen
Proposed solution
Concrete: a 50 KLD water scheme at X, a drain from Y to Z
Who can implement
Office or body, with the scheme or budget line if known
Rough cost and funding routes
Estimate; which scheme, fund, grant or partner could cover it
Priority
Reach, urgency, feasibility, community votes
Status
Proposed, acknowledged, under review, funded, in progress, done or rejected, with dates and reasons
Contributors and steward
Who wrote, reviewed and carries it

04

The long-term development plan

Each block or ward has one living development plan. It groups the place's plans by domain, sets priorities across domains, states a three-to-five year direction, and records what was funded, completed and dropped, with reasons. It is reviewed in a public meeting every year and exported as a printable document that a panchayat, municipal body, district planning committee or funder can take into its own process.

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