रूपरेखा और पायलट
शुरू करने के लिए यहाँ किसी संविधान संशोधन की ज़रूरत नहीं। एक वार्ड, एक सहायता केंद्र, एक छोटा पारदर्शी कोष — यह अपने आप में एक पूर्ण और उपयोगी चीज़ है।
Five phases
- Phase 0
Design and simulation
Model alternative unit sizes and boundary rules against real demography. Test the finance across rich, middle-income and poor communities. Define precisely which functions are local, shared, municipal, state or national. Draft the legal, privacy, labour, child-safety and procurement frameworks, and the model bye-law. Agree common technology standards and interoperability.
- Phase 1
Twelve pilots, chosen to be hard
Begin with support centres, a small transparent fund, task matching, learning programmes and community events. Measure participation, cost per service, work created, resident satisfaction, inclusion, grievance rates and completion. Keep every sensitive power out of the pilot entirely unless a clear statutory framework already exists.
- Phase 2
Cluster networks
Connect units that work into Sangams sharing specialists, equipment, training, procurement and employment. This is where the local-first, escalate-next principle is genuinely tested for the first time.
- Phase 3
State-scale interoperability
Standardise digital protocols and service definitions while preserving real local administrative and cultural variation. Equalisation support so that quality does not track local wealth.
- Phase 4
A national network, not a national bureaucracy
Common standards, identity and consent mechanisms, shared learning resources, research networks, skill mobility and transparent fiscal transfers connecting locally governed units.
Twelve places, chosen because they are difficult
Piloting only where success is easy produces a model that works only where it was never needed. The commitment is to twelve deliberately varied sites — and to publishing the ones that fail.
1 · Metro slum ward
Dense, tenure-insecure, high migration. The hardest test of who counts as a resident.
2 · Prosperous urban colony
Where residents already pay for private alternatives and may see no reason to participate.
3 · Small town
Weak municipal capacity, strong local hierarchies.
4 · Peri-urban fringe
Neither municipality nor panchayat fully responsible. The jurisdictional gap.
5 · Prosperous village cluster
Land-owning dominance — the clearest test of whether sortition resists capture.
6 · Poor village cluster
Where almost every household falls in the exempt band and the fund is mostly Shram-daan.
7 · Tribal block
Existing customary governance that the model must work beneath, not over.
8 · Hill district
Travel time, not population, sets the unit boundary. Tests the core design rule.
9 · Border district
Security constraints, documentation difficulties, restricted data.
10 · Coastal fishing belt
Seasonal livelihood, cyclone exposure, a workforce absent for months.
11 · Drought-prone block
Water as the single dominant local issue and the main test of the Jal-Van Ledger.
12 · Flood-prone block
Annual disruption, and the first real test of the disaster-response design.
Cost per service delivered. Time to resolution. Who did not participate, and why. Grievances raised and upheld. Money spent against money raised. And an honest account of what failed — written by someone who does not report to the people running it.