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India's development challenge

₹2.6 Trillion¹

spent annually on rural development programs

700M+²
Rural Indians
500+³
Central & State Schemes
~3%⁴
Schemes with impact evidence

Are we spending trillions without knowing what & how it works?

¹ MoF Economic Survey 2023–24 ² Census 2011 · Registrar General of India ³ PRS Legislative Research 2023 ⁴ J-PAL / IDinsight evidence review

The problem

Field data exists.
Insight doesn't.

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Paper registers
Field workers fill notebooks. Data never reaches decision-makers.
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Siloed spreadsheets
Each NGO has a different format. No cross-scheme visibility.
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Duplicate surveys
The same family surveyed 4× a year by different programs. Data never linked.
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No longitudinal tracking
We can't answer: did this family's income improve after the intervention?

The Catalyst Thesis

Think Global.
Act Village.

The only way to achieve global development goals is to measure and act at the ground level —
every family, every village, every intervention, every rupee.

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Global SDG Goals
17 UN goals that define what development success looks like — from zero poverty to quality education and clean water
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Village-Level Data
Track every family, asset, program & indicator across every level — household, SHG, village, block & district
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Proven Interventions
AI surfaces what's measurable, cost-effective & impactful — so every rupee of development spend actually works
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Synergistic Impact
Aggregate & integrate interventions across the same geography — multiplying outcomes and eliminating costly duplication
Development Catalyst

Development Catalyst

A field data platform that connects every household, every scheme, and every intervention — so you can prove what works.

📱 Mobile-first PWA
🔐 Secure & RLS-protected
📊 Built-in analytics
🌐 Works offline

Live app · not a mockup

Dashboard & Field Analytics

.../dashboard
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COVERAGE AREA
All Villages · 4
ADMINPriya Sharma
Synced 17 Jun 2026
916
HOUSEHOLDS SURVEYED
3406
TOTAL MEMBERS
3853
SCHEME ENROLLMENTS
507
OPEN ASSESSMENTS
+ NEW HOUSEHOLD ENTRY
FIELD ACTIONS
📊
HOUSEHOLD ASSESSMENT
✅
SCHEME ENROLLMENT
👥
SHG MANAGEMENT
.../analytics
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COVERAGE
4 villages
Admin view · all assigned geographies
916
Households
3,406
Members
3,853
Active enrollments
5.2
Avg household size
Coverage by village
Households surveyed
Keezhurappanur301
Melur300
Arangur300
Nallur15

916 households · 4 villages · real data from Tamil Nadu

Intelligence layer

SDG Goals & Development Scorecard

.../sdg
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17 UN SDGs mapped from field data. Scores 0–100, higher = closer to target. Faded = not yet measured.
Keezhurappanur
SDG index · rank #1 of 4
56
Moderate
1
No Poverty
63
2
Zero Hunger
67
3
Good Health
4
4
Education
46
5
Gender Equality
25
6
Water & San.
76
7
Clean Energy
92
8
Decent Work
56
9
Infrastructure
42
10
Inequalities
79
11
Communities
35
12
Consumption
—
13
Climate
—
14
Below Water
—
15
Land
60
16
Institutions
88
.../scores
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DEVELOPMENT CATALYSTWeights
Composite development index (0–100) per village.
Keezhurappanur
Rank #1 of 4
56
Moderate
Economic & Livelihood73
Financial Inclusion41
Education & Skills46
Health & Nutrition50
Housing & Amenities69
Infrastructure Access41
Water & Agriculture72
Social Capital56
▲ Economic▲ Water & Agri▼ Financial▼ Infrastructure
.../sdg/trends
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SDG index trajectory · composite score per snapshot
All Villages — Score Trend
805530BaselineQ1Q2Current
KeezhurappanurMelurArangurNallur
SDG Improvement Leaders
SDG 7 · Clean Energy
Keezhurappanur
+12 pts
SDG 6 · Water & Sanitation
Melur
+9 pts
SDG 8 · Decent Work
Arangur
+7 pts

17 UN SDGs scored · composite development index · trajectory tracking per village

Spatial intelligence

Household Map & Village Resource Map

.../households/map — 901 GPS-tagged homes
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901 houses with GPS · 240 BPL (27%). Tap a house for details.
BPL (240)Non-BPL (661)
Indicative layout · tap a point to open category map & download
.../infrastructure/map — 106 facilities, 13 categories
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106 facilities with GPS across 4 villages.
WaterHealthAgri MarketsGovernanceCivicEducationFinancialSocial

BPL/Non-BPL household clusters · water, health, education, agri & 9 more facility types

Everything in one platform

Built for Every Layer of Development Work

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Real-time Dashboard
Village KPIs, poverty indicators & program coverage at a glance
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GPS Household Maps
901 homes tagged, BPL/Non-BPL clustered & visualised on live maps
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UN SDG Tracker
All 17 goals scored per village with progress bars & trend lines
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Development Scorecard
Composite index with trajectory tracking across time periods
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Infrastructure Maps
106 facilities across 13 categories — health, water, schools & more
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SHG Management
Self-help groups, members, meetings & savings tracked end-to-end
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Scheme Enrollment
Beneficiary records & entitlement gaps across government schemes
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Mobile-first PWA
Field workers collect data on any device — works offline, syncs instantly
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Score Simulator
Tweak indicators to simulate how interventions would shift the development score
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AI Layering
Predictive insights & pattern detection overlaid on every dataset
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Intervention Engine
AI recommends highest-impact actions from family level up to entire village
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Impact Measurement
Before/after tracking to prove which interventions actually worked

All modules live & operational · Tamil Nadu pilot · 4 villages · 916 households

Built for multiple stakeholders

One Ground Truth. Many Beneficiaries.

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Development Ecosystem
NGOs · Government · Foundations · UN Agencies
→ Programme planning, field monitoring & SDG goal tracking
→ Aggregated interventions to eliminate duplication across donors & agencies
→ Evidence-based impact reporting for funders & government
Strongest Commercial Hook
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Financial Sector
Banks · NBFC-MFIs · SFBs · NBFCs
→ Client profiling & KYC ground-truth validation at the village level
→ Credit underwriting using household assets, SHG history & scheme data
→ Loan group assessment, repayment capacity & over-indebtedness check
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Private & Corporates
Enterprises · CSR Teams · ESG Desks
→ Rural market entry, demand mapping & distribution network planning
→ CSR programme design — targeted, non-duplicated & geographically coordinated
→ ESG reporting with verified field data — not self-reported estimates

One verified dataset · Shared across sectors · Multiplied impact

Step 1 — Onboarding

Field workers ready
in 60 seconds

No IT setup. No training week. A field coordinator signs up, sets up their organisation and village — and starts surveying households immediately.

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Organisation setup

Name your NGO, add districts and blocks in one step.

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Village registration

Select state → district → block → village. Auto-linked to government geo-codes.

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Role-based access

Field staff, supervisors, and admins see only what they need.

Development Catalyst
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FULL NAME
Priya Krishnamurthy
EMAIL ADDRESS
priya@samagraha.org
ROLE
Field Coordinator
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Step 2 — Real-time dashboard

Your entire field picture,
at a glance

0
Households Surveyed
0
Members Profiled
0
Scheme Enrollments
0
Active Villages
🏠 Households
📊 Analytics
🗺️ Map View
📋 Assessments
🎯 Schemes

↑ Live data from Nallur, Shanmugapuram & 2 other villages · Dindigul, Tamil Nadu

← Households Household
Murugesan Arumugam
Nallur · DEMO-001
BPL
5
Members
OBC
Caste
Economics
Primary livelihoodAgriculture
Annual income₹68,000
Land owned1.2 acres
Amenities
✓ Electricity ✓ Mobile ✕ Toilet ✕ Tap water

Step 3 — Deep profiles

Every family.
Fully understood.

Each household profile captures 40+ data points — from caste and income to durables, amenities, and financial relationships.

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Individual members

Age, gender, education, health, employment for every person.

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Financial inclusion

Bank access, insurance, formal vs. informal credit — per member.

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GPS-tagged location

Every house plotted on a map. Reach analysis included.

Step 4 — Scheme intelligence

Track 3,800+
enrollments at once

Connect households to the government schemes they benefit from. Cross-reference eligibility, enrollment, and impact — across all programs simultaneously.

  • ✓
    PM-KISAN farm income support
  • ✓
    PMJDY bank account linkage
  • ✓
    PMAY housing scheme
  • ✓
    NREGA employment guarantee
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    35 more schemes tracked
Scheme Enrollments
3,853
Total enrollments
507
Pending assessment
PM-KISAN
412 families · ₹6,000/yr
Active
PMJDY
891 accounts opened
Active
PMAY-G
143 applications
Review
NREGA
628 job card holders
Active

The insight layer

What actually
moved the needle?

Development Catalyst doesn't just store data — it answers the question every funder and policymaker asks: which interventions drove real change?

By tracking the same household longitudinally across surveys, schemes, and assessments — we can compute what changed and why.

Sample: Income improvement by scheme combination (Nallur, 2024-25)

PM-KISAN only
+12%
SHG + Loan
+28%
NREGA + SHG
+35%
All 3 combined
+61%

* Illustrative projection based on survey methodology. Live analytics in app.

The vision

From 4 villages today
to 10,000 tomorrow

Development Catalyst is infrastructure for the development sector — a longitudinal database that makes impact provable at village, district, and national scale.

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NGO Partners

Digitise your field operations. Get evidence for your funders. Spend less time on data entry, more on impact.

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State Governments

Real-time saturation data for scheme convergence. Know which villages are under-reached within weeks, not years.

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Impact Investors

Fund interventions with longitudinal household data attached. Finally — evidence-based social investment.

Development Catalyst

Join us.

We're looking for pilot partners, state government collaborators, and mission-aligned investors to take Development Catalyst from 4 villages to scale.

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NGO Partners
Pilot with your field teams. Free for first 3 villages.
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Government
Scheme convergence data for district collectors & programme officers.
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Investors
Back the infrastructure layer for evidence-based development.
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