Last year, we were hiring for Ministry of Rural Development’s Data & Insights Unit to use data science to responsibly improve rural-dev service delivery across schemes.

Hiring similar posts again (last tweet).

First, here's what the wonderful team did in <12 months:

(1/n) PMGSY (Rural Roads): We have an AI based warning system which flags suspicious payments comparing images of road inspections with payments being made to contractors for maintenance.

But do warnings work?

(2/n)

Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are top-down in policy but also the supplementing IT is built & designed for Delhi.

It best reflects in the design of reports/dashboards & data entry forms. The tools required by the state to monitor/help itself are often missing.

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#sarkari Ofcourse, MIS is a reflection of policy and there's directionality. But overtime & innocuously it dictates the conversation, governance and bureaucracy of the program they administer.

While, policy goes through feedback cycles with states, IT requirements almost never.

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