Here below you can find the procedure of Praja Sadhikara Survey (PSS) / Smart Pulse Survey. Here below covered Smart Pulse Survey – Introduction, COMPONENTS OF THE PEOPLE HUB DATABASE, NEED FOR SMART PULSE SURVEY, CONVERGENCE OF CORE DATA TO CREATE THE PEOPLE HUB, FORMAT & PROCEDURE FOR SMART PULSE SURVEY, DEPARTMENTS REQUIRED – Departments Required For Participating In Smart Pulse Survey & ADVANCE ACTION – Advance Action To Be Taken By Departments Prior To The Survey details read more below.

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Introduction

Andhra Pradesh Smart Pulse Survey is a massive survey of all households, aimed to capture the required socio-economic data directly in digital form, with online validations. The field surveyors can enter the data by accessing the relevant portal through a connected tablet so that the data validations happen online and the scope for mistakes is minimized and the consolidation and analysis of data can be completed within 2 weeks of the completion of field survey.

The objectives of the proposed Smart Pulse Survey are summarized below:

• Completing the seeding of Aadhaar in the databases of identified developmental
• Ensuring the correctness of the data already seeded with Aadhaar;
• Ensuring that the demographic data of any person is identical in the SRDH
• Eliminating duplicate records;
• Deleting the records of persons who have expired;
• Creating a self-consistent set of records in the form of AP State Socio-Economic and Welfare departments;database and the departmental database;Database (AP SEDB).
• The basic purpose of the Policy is to create the People Hub as a Single Source of Truth. This can’t be achieved unless all the relevant databases mentioned earlier are made to converge and interoperate seamlessly, within a short period of time to ensure
• synchronization of the various datasets. The Smart Pulse Survey precisely attempts to do this.

Against the above background, the Smart Pulse Survey can be defined as a coordinated and synchronized effort at creation, integration and convergence of the multiple databases relating to socio-economic data of the people with the SRDH database. Government of Andhra Pradesh has adopted Aadhaar as one of the most important datasets to be used in the implementation of the development and welfare programs. The following facts bear this out:

Aadhaar enrolment by UIDAI has crossed 98% of the residents of the State.

A Policy titled “Policy on Unique Identification of Residents of AP” (hereinafter called the Policy) has been approved by the Cabinet and notified in G O Ms 16ITE&C Department dated 29/07/2015. While the policy gives pivotal importance to Aadhaar, it specifies thatno person shall be deprived of any service for want of Aadhaar number in case he/she is otherwise eligible or entitled, as per the prescribed criteria.

• Due to the drive taken up during the last one year, the seeding of Aadhaar in the databases of various departments has increased to 80-95%.
• Aadhaar has been successfully used in various programs like the Social Welfare Pensions, Scholarships, Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Debt Relief to farmers.
• ITE&C Department is in the process of implementing a comprehensive application, conforming to global standards, to create the People Hub, so as to ensure the purity, integrity, reliability, security, privacy and availability of the people database.
• The AP State Enterprise Architecture, named “e-Pragati”, designed by the ITE&C Department, gives a pivotal place to Aadhaar-based identification of persons.
• The policy mentioned in (b) above as well as the e-Pragati Architecture mentioned in (f) above, enjoin creation of the People Hub as a Single Source of Truth of core data on the residents of the State, by undertaking a Smart Pulse Survey.

Andhra Pradesh has already created a State Resident Datahub (SRDH) in association with the UIDAI. The SRDH mirrors the Aadhaar data relating to AP from the Data Repository of UIDAI in Bangalore/ Manesar. The data is updated at a defined periodicity. The Basic Data on any resident that Aadhaar has, contains the fields Unique Aadhaar Number, Name, C/o Name, Date of Birth or Year of Birth, Gender, Address, Postal PIN code, Photo, Biometric data (10 fingerprints + Iris). While UIDAI has shared the demographic data elements with SRDH, the biometric data is available for a case-to-case online bio-metric authentication.

COMPONENTS OF THE PEOPLE HUB DATABASE

People Hub database consists of 2 principal portions – the demographic data contained in the SRDH and the Socio-economic data contained in the various databases created by the line departments, as part of implementing their developmental and welfare programs. While the demographic data contained in the SRDH is nearly accurate and highly reliable, the departmental databases are either not complete or not fully aligned and synchronized with the SRDH data. If the objectives set forth in the Policy are to be fulfilled, there is an immense and immediate need to achieve the convergence of these various databases.

NEED FOR SMART PULSE SURVEY

The basic purpose of the Policy is to create the People Hub as a Single Source of Truth. This can’t be achieved unless all the relevant databases mentioned earlier are made to converge and interoperate seamlessly, within a short period of time to ensure synchronization of the various datasets. The Smart Pulse Survey precisely attempts to do this.

Against the above background, the Smart Pulse Survey can be defined as a coordinated and synchronized effort at creation, integration and convergence of the multiple databases relating to socio-economic data of the people with the SRDH database.

Smart Pulse Survey is a massive parallel survey of all households, aimed to capture the required socio-economic data directly in digital form, with online validations. The field surveyors can enter the data by accessing the relevant portal through a connected tablet so that the data validations happen online and the scope for mistakes is minimized; and the consolidation and analysis of data can be completed within 2 weeks of the completion of field survey. The objectives of the proposed Smart Pulse Survey are summarized below:

• Completing the seeding of Aadhaar in the databases of identified developmental and Welfare departments;
• Ensuring the correctness of the data already seeded with Aadhaar;
• Ensuring that the demographic data of any person is identical in the SRDH database and the departmental database;
• Eliminating duplicate records;
• Deleting the records of persons who have expired;
• Creating a self-consistent set of records in the form of AP State Socio-Economic Database (AP SEDB).

CONVERGENCE OF CORE DATA TO CREATE THE PEOPLE HUB

The Policy which envisages an ideal situation, where the demographic data contained in the departmental database and that contained in the People Hub / SRDH match in all respects, namely, the data definition and data content, Such an envisaged situation will facilitate more efficient processing of service requests and establishing of identity and addresses of the residents. The following principles are will enable the beneficiary data of all departments to converge.

• The demographic details of a resident in the departmental database shall be based on any statutory document like the birth certificate, school or college certificate or passport, if such a document or online information is available.
• If the demographic details specified in the Aadhaar differ from the data based on such documents as in (i), the resident shall be advised to get the Aadhaar data corrected by preferring an application at the MeeSeva Counter or online.
• In case the resident does not have any documentary support, and there are differences in the departmental data and the Aadhaar data, the latter prevails and the departmental database shall be modified accordingly.
• The convergence may be undertaken preferably after the percentage of seeding and its verification crosses 80.
• The convergence shall be undertaken as a part of the Smart Pulse Survey.

FORMAT & PROCEDURE FOR SMART PULSE SURVEY

The Annexure shows the Format of the People Hub, which consists of both the Demographic Data (Aadhaar data from SRDH) and the Socio-Economic data (beneficiary-data related (in the departmental databases). An online application interface is being developed for use by the enumerators during the Smart Pulse Survey. A detailed user manual will be issued for the use of the enumerators and the supervisors.

The following is a high-level description of the procedure proposed for the Survey.

 A. Administrative Logistics Of The Survey:

1. Altogether 30,000 enumerators will be deployed in all the Districts, drawn from the participating departments (mentioned in para 6 below).
2. Each enumerator shall be assigned an Enumerator’s Block (EB) consisting of a population of 1000, which may constitute about 300 households.
3. The survey would be carried out for 45 Days, 5 days a week, from Monday to Friday. The enumerators will have the opportunity to fill up the entries missing due reasons like “house locked”, “person not available” or “Supporting Documents not available readily”, in the intervening Saturday/ Sunday.
4. Survey shall be conducted from 9 am to 6 pm on each day, with a break of 1 hour from 1 to 2 pm.
5. On an average, each enumerator will have to cover 14 households on each survey day.
6. For every 10 enumerators, one Supervisory Officer (SO) will be appointed. The SO shall undertake a verification of 5% of the entries made by each enumerator during the previous day.
7. A series of Train-the-Trainer programs will be held at the State and District levels, to impart the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct the survey. The trainers, in turn, will conduct 1-day training for the supervisors and enumerators at the Mandal level.
8. Appropriate publicity campaign will be undertaken by the I&PR department, prior to the conduct of the Survey.
9. The District Collectors shall prepare a Plan of Action, consisting of delineation of EB’s, appointment of SO’s and Enumerators, conducting the training programs, arranging for the publicity campaign and monitoring the progress of the survey through senior officers.

B. Technical Logistics For The Survey:

The Survey will be carried out using connected tablets supplied recently. Paper-based survey shall not be allowed.
To enable survey to be carried out in areas not having cellular coverage, offline data-entry on the tablet will be allowed, including capture of biometrics offline. The enumerator will be required to reach an area having connectivity at the end of each day, and validate the data entered offline.

The App developed by ITE&C department will have suitable interfaces for Registration of Enumerators and SO’s

Allocation of EB’s to all Enumerators and SOs, by the Collectors.

• Online/offline data entry by enumerators, along with online/offline validation features;
• Validation by the SOs, including making any corrections in the data entered by the Enumerators;
• Approval of the data by the beneficiary/ resident, using bio-metric authentication (online/offline);
• Approval of the data by the Enumerator and SO (5% by the latter) through biometric authentication.
• Online, real-time MIS to monitor the progress of enumeration by the Senior Officers.
• Technically qualified personnel, trained in the application will be positioned at the Revenue Division level, for attending to technical problems that may arise during the survey.
• A Central Control room will be established by the ITE&C department to attend to field level issues and problems.

DEPARTMENTS REQUIRED

Departments Required For Participating In Smart Pulse Survey

The employees of the following departments shall participate in the Survey.

S.No	Participating Department	Focus Area/ Scheme
1	Civil Supplies	ePDS
2	Revenue	Web Land
3	Rural Development	Pensions, MNREGA, SHG
4	CDMA	Property Tax
5	Housing	EWSH
6	Social Welfare	Scholarships, Residential Schools & Hostels
7	BC Welfare
8	Tribal Welfare
9	Minorities Welfare
10	Women & Child Welfare	Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition
11	Health & Family Welfare
12	Agriculture	Primary Sector Programs
13	Horticulture
14	Sericulture
15	Animal Husbandry
16	DISCOMs	Electricity Connections
17	Irrigation	Ayacut Detailss

The following observations apply in regard to the participation of the departments:

• The employees of all the above departments shall undertake the survey work, covering the entire format, irrespective of the department to which they belong.
• The Focus areas/ Schemes have been mentioned in the above table to draw attention of all the departments to focus on cleaning and making ready the respective databases relating to those schemes.
• In the training program, sufficient focus shall be given to explain the manner of filling up each column/ field in the format, to all the enumerators, irrespective of the department to which they belong, so as to avoid any mistakes in filling in the data.
• As all the departments will eventually benefit from the result of the survey, all departments shall bestow special attention to ensure the quality of survey.

ADVANCE ACTION

Advance Action To Be Taken By Departments Prior To The Survey

Departments may perform demographic verification & cleanse their existing databases by removing duplicate / dead / migrated / ineligible beneficiaries.

The cleaned data shall then be shared with People Hub / AP SRDH

• ITE & C Dept, GoAP shall
• Host the Aadhaar & Dept Data at a centralized location.
• Develop a web application for Smart Pulse Survey, to be hosted in SDC.
• Ensure that adequate number of tablet PCs are available to the field functionaries, along with connectivity & bio-metric authentication device (finger print)
• Provide necessary capacity building to the identified department enumerators.
• Maintain & Support the application & data during the Smart Pulse Survey
• Conduct pilot of the Smart Pulse Survey in identified 3 Mandals each in 3 districts & improve/enhance the application, logistics and MIS to be ready for the roll-out to all 13 districts.
• Planning & Revenue Depts to identify the enumerators for conducting the Door-to-Door Smart Pulse Survey.
• A database of such Enumerators along with their Aadhaar Numbers to be shared with ITE & C dept.

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