Swachh Bharat Summer Internship / Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (100 Hrs) / Rural Outreach (BT-108) - Important Questions

Design a comprehensive implementation plan for a rural sanitation and hygiene campaign under Swachh Bharat/Unnat Bharat Abhiyan for a village of 2,500 population. Your plan should include objectives, stakeholder mapping, activity timeline, roles and responsibilities, risk mitigation, and success criteria.

Prepare a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework for the above rural sanitation campaign. Define input, output, outcome and impact indicators, data sources, frequency of measurement, and a simple scorecard for ongoing monitoring.

Describe the methodology to conduct a baseline survey in the village. Include sampling strategy, questionnaire design, key sanitation-related variables to collect, ethical considerations, and steps for data quality assurance.

Explain Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) strategies suitable for improving sanitation practices in rural communities. Provide examples of IEC materials and community engagement activities tailored to low-literacy settings.

Prepare an estimated budget and resource mobilization plan for the 100-hour Swachh Bharat internship activities in the designated village. Include line-items for personnel, materials, transport, IEC materials, training and contingency.

List the steps to form, train and sustain a Village Sanitation Committee (VSC). Describe the committee's roles, capacity building modules, meeting cadence and simple tools to track committee performance.

Develop an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and sustainability plan for community toilets and household sanitation improvements implemented during the outreach. Include roles, funding mechanisms, maintenance schedules and a simple monitoring checklist.

Explain the process of analysing baseline and endline survey data to measure impact. Describe basic quantitative indicators (e.g., % households with improved toilets), simple statistical tests or comparisons you would use and how to present results to stakeholders.

Outline the essential sections of the final report for the 100-hour rural outreach internship. Specify the content expected in the Executive Summary, Methodology, Findings, Recommendations and Annexures.

Explain how to identify and link project activities with relevant government schemes and departments (e.g., SBM—Gramin, MGNREGA). Give examples of convergence opportunities and steps to secure institutional support.

Case Study: A village sanitation initiative achieved high latrine construction but low usage after three months. Analyse possible reasons for low usage and propose a detailed corrective action plan covering technical, social and institutional measures.

Discuss ethical considerations while conducting household surveys and interventions in rural areas. Include informed consent, privacy, non-coercion, cultural sensitivity and handling of vulnerable groups.