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Seva Innovation Challenge 2026 · Emerging Technologies

Planning a village’s future shouldn’t rest on guesswork.

(Nation building starts with village building)

GPDP Sahayak is an AI planning platform for Gram Panchayat Development Planning. It helps a Gram Sevak, Sarpanch and members prepare a complete, evidence-based and fundable plan, so that no village need or eligible fund is missed.

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Tested prototype Pilot planned: 10 GPs, Wani taluka
Needs ranked by score, in Marathi
Working prototype on real data for Purad (Nerad) GP, Wani: 61 functions ranked by need, in Marathi.
The problem

70+ functions to plan. Rarely a trained professional to plan them.

Every Gram Panchayat must prepare a development plan that spans 70+ functions, from agriculture and irrigation to digital public services. It is not only about roads, nali and street lights: in this new era, a village should aspire to much more. Yet the Gram Sevak, Sarpanch and members who prepare it are rarely trained development professionals.

The scale of the problem: whose development depends on these plans
83 cr+
villagers across India depend on Gram Panchayat plans, prepared every year
ⓘ Census 2011
70+
functions every plan must consider, from agriculture to data literacy
2.5 lakh+
Gram Panchayats across India face the same task
ⓘ Census 2011
A Gram Sevak’s planning season

  1. The plan is due before the Gram Sabha.

    70+ functions to cover, from cattle care to digital literacy. One person, alongside every other duty.

  2. The data is somewhere.

    Census 2011, Mission Antyodaya 2019-20, PAI scores, registers, portals and GRs in English. Much of it outdated, some of it missing.

  3. Rules, resources and programmes keep changing.

    Fund rules are revised, budgets shift, and programmes are launched or replaced. In 2026 the 16th Finance Commission arrived and VB-G RAM G replaced MGNREGA.

  4. So the plan follows the loudest demand.

    A road, a light, a drain. Soil, water, nutrition and livelihoods stay unplanned, year after year.

What the plan should weigh
70+ functions
  • Agriculture
  • Irrigation
  • Soil & land
  • Livestock
  • Fisheries
  • Forestry
  • Drinking water
  • Sanitation & waste
  • Health
  • Nutrition
  • Women & children
  • Education
  • Skills & jobs
  • Livelihoods & SHGs
  • Housing
  • Energy
  • Climate resilience
  • Biodiversity
  • Disaster preparedness
  • Elderly care
  • Markets
  • Village safety
  • Digital public services
  • Data literacy
  • …and more
What usually gets planned
A road.A street light.A drain.
The demands that are most visible or voiced the loudest.

The result: plans that are incomplete, built on intuition, a few visible demands and biases, and weakly evidenced. Eligible funds go unclaimed, and the value the village could create for its people goes unplanned.

Why it matters
Year after year, the cost falls on the village.

A weak plan leaves eligible funds unclaimed and health, livelihoods, women, children and climate needs outside public spending, year after year.

Evidence from the planned pilot GP, Purad (Nerad), Wani
50.3
PAI 2023-24 score (Grade C). Weakest: poverty-free 37.3, water-sufficient 38.1, women-friendly 38.5.
0 / 300
farmers got a Soil Health Card report; only 20 households have piped water.
ⓘ Mission Antyodaya 2019-20
75.2%
of children aged 6–59 months in Yavatmal district are anaemic.
ⓘ NFHS-5
Our solution

A complete, evidence-backed view of all 70+ functions.

GPDP Sahayak is an AI planning platform for Gram Panchayat Development Planning, that gives every Gram Panchayat what it has rarely had: a complete, evidence-backed view across 70+ functions, from agriculture and irrigation to digital public services & data literacy. It combines the best available public data with local inputs on socioeconomic conditions and demographics, shows the source and date of every number, and builds a plan that can strengthen the case for more funding and creates value for current and future of the village.

70+
functions reviewed against village conditions
33
fund sources checked against their rules; new sources can be added
Target
≤ 1 day
to a full draft plan, instead of weeks of manual compiling
ⓘ Target, to be measured in the pilot
How it works

The whole planning chain in one tool.

  1. 01
    An automatic village profile built from public data
  2. 02
    Guided inputs for what public data lacks
  3. 03
    Needs ranked across 70+ functions
  4. 04
    Matching of every fund source and its rules
  5. 05
    Budget-constrained prioritisation with plain-language reasons
  6. 06
    Gram Sabha approval with bilingual exports
Safe AI

Safe AI for non-technical users.

GPDP Sahayak makes AI safe and useful for people with no technical training, in a setting where a wrong number can misdirect public money.

  1. 01
    AI only proposes
  2. 02
    Answers are checked
  3. 03
    Rules live in data, not code
  4. 04
    Works when things fail
Compared with today

Today’s tools record a plan or find gaps. None plans end to end.

One explainable chain no other tool we found offers
  1. Village data
  2. Need score
  3. Costed work
  4. Fund rule
  5. Optimiser
  6. Gram Sabha vote
Expected impact

Better plans, with less effort, for the people they serve.

Planned target
21,900+
people the planned pilot aims to reach through the plans of 10 Gram Panchayats in Wani
ⓘ Census 2011
Target
≤ 1 day
to draft a plan, versus weeks today
ⓘ Target, to be measured
Planned target
~100
Gram Sevaks, Sarpanch and members to be supported in the planned pilot
ⓘ Estimate

Better plans with less effort

Gram Panchayats can prepare more complete, evidence-backed development plans in less effort.

Informed decisions

The Gram Sevak, Sarpanch and members can review 70+ functions against village conditions instead of relying on intuition or a few visible demands.

Fewer missed funds

By matching each activity to the fund sources it may qualify for, the app should reduce the chance of eligible funds going unclaimed and strengthen the village’s case when seeking them.

More community trust

Transparent priorities, with reasons shown to the Gram Sabha, should improve trust and participation.

Comparable plans at scale

Climate and SDG tagging and a standard roll-up format let districts and the state compare and combine many plans.

Lasting value

The aim is lasting value for the people each Gram Panchayat serves, today and in the years ahead.

Scale-up path

A new state needs data, not code.

Rules, schemes and templates are data an admin edits. A standard roll-up lets block, district and State combine plans.

  1. 1 GP
    Purad (Nerad), Wani: the prototype already runs on its data
  2. 10 GPs
    Wani taluka, planned pilot · 21,900+ people
  3. Yavatmal
    District proposal at 12 months
  4. Maharashtra
    Block, district and State combine plans in one roll-up
  5. ~38,000 GPs
    Maharashtra Zone · 8 cr+ villagers
  6. 2.5 lakh+ GPs
    India · 83 cr+ villagers
Planned pilot

From tested prototype to field-proven in 12 months.

  1. Idea
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Working prototype ✔ today
  4. Field pilot (planned)
  5. Ready to deploy
3 months
Real GRs and data loaded, Marathi reviewed, cloud set up; Purad (Nerad) plan through its Gram Sabha.
6 months
All 10 Wani GPs prepare their 2027-28 GPDP; BDO reviews.
12 months
Results measured; Yavatmal district proposal; results demonstration to MITRA and VSTF.
10 planned pilot GPs, Wani taluka ⓘ To be confirmed
Planned pilot cost, 10 GPs, 12 months
≈ ₹5.6 L
ⓘ Indicative. 2,500+ automated tests and 6/6 acceptance tests pass, run on synthetic data with a mock AI; no real Gram Sabha has used it yet.

Team

Shivaji Subhash Lode

Shivaji Subhash Lode

Team lead (individual)

Student; designed and built GPDP Sahayak end to end: product, software, AI, data, GIS and the optimiser.

Subhash M Lode

Subhash M Lode

Mentor

CEO, Bharat Valley Venture Capital; Development Professional.

Talk to us about better village planning.

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