Sponser: NITI Aayog, Govt of India and DC’s Office, Chatra, Jharkhand.
Sponser: NITI Aayog, Govt of India and DC’s Office, Chatra, Jharkhand. The MoU of the Aspirational Chatra Project was signed on 2 March 2019 between School of Development Studies (SDS), TISS and Deputy Commissioner’s Office, Chatra, Jharkhand. Of the 115 districts identified by the Niti Aayog under its Aspirational District Programme, Chatra is one of the 35 districts enlisted as a Left-Wing Extremist Area and has been allocated to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The programme, with its thrust on multidimensional outlook to development, incorporating Health, Education, Infrastructure, Livelihood and Digital Capacity, envisions to transform economically weaker and alienated districts into hotbeds of innovation and growth. SDS, TISS team has developed a unique multi-pronged strategy to use this opportunity to explore and address the gap between the commercial potential and social development of the district, reasons for the backwardness of the district and how it can be overcome. The project aimed to guide on how to enhance economic opportunities, reduce distress migration, suggest measures to enhance food security and facilitate ecological synergies to mitigate the effects of climate change. Prof. Ritambhara Hebbar, SDS (TISS) was the project leader, with Prof. Sivaraju, Prof. Ashwani Kumar as Senior Advisors, and Prof. Sandhya Rani and Dr. Sandhya Iyer as Sectoral Experts. The following formed a part of the deliverables of the project: