Transparent and Corruption-free MNREGA

An add-on layer to current government's MNREGA system to provide a more transparent, easy-to-use and corruption-free environment.

Summary

built add-on layer to enhance existing MNREGA application
plagiarism check using object detection and classification
utility features such as OCR and AR ruler
impacts employment of 80 million people directly

What is MNREGA ?

MNREGA stands for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. It's objective is to

Provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to rural unskilled labour
Increase economic security
Decrease migration of labour from rural to urban areas

It gives a significant amount of control to the Gram Panchayats for managing public works, strengthening Panchayati Raj Institutions. Gram Sabhas are free to accept or reject recommendations from Intermediate and District Panchayats.

It incorporates accountability in its operational guidelines and ensures compliance and transparency at all levels.

Current system and it's issues

working

Once work is allocated and workers are assigned work, The MGNREGA Spatial Enumerator (MSE) officer uploads images of progress about the project at three stages

beginning of project
half way through the project
on project completion and all these information is publicly available on governments site.

shortcoming

Even with all the check present in current system there are some major shortcomings such as:

lack of check for uploaded images
lack of ease of access
lack of check for plagiarism

Example

One such example of mis-happening is presented below:

You can check out all projects and their details on Bhuvan-MGNREGA by Ministry of Rural Development.

If you will navigate to Uttar Pradesh -> Faizabad, you find this peculiar project where a canal line project is supposed to be built, but you can see the progress for yourself; is it correct ?

Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Our Solutions

Goal	Description
Transperancy	Open Database & ease of use
Corruption	- Object detection ML model - classification MLmodel - plagarism checker
Utility	- OCR - Augmented Reality