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DATAMATION CAPABILITY STATEMENT

Datamation (ISO-9001) is a leading multi-disciplinary Development & Socio-Economic Research, Consulting, Project Management, Evaluation and Monitoring    firm; offering highly specialized services.

We specialize in Governance including evolving Participatory models for Governance, Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Education, Public Health & Nutrition, Institutional Development, Transport and Tourism; Gender, Rural and Urban Development, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), Bio-technology, Water Management, and Energy sectors.

Datamation’s Socio-Economic and Consulting Management Advisory Department   draws  it  expertise  from team of highly experienced  professionals  experienced  in various sectors. We operate from 30 locations across the country and have a proven track record of delivering cutting edge research and advisory  services using this network of offices cost-effectively. In addition,  we  also draw  our  expertise from a qualified external resource base of  top  notch  Consultants specializing  in various sectors.

I. AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES SECTOR

**Development of an Integrated Communications and Positioning Strategy for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), Hyderabad.

**Development of an Integrated Communications & Media Outreach Strategy for ITCs International Agri-Business Division based on extensive field work in the state of  Maharashtra.

**Market Research for estimating market size and potential of Monsanto’s products in Punjab, Uttaranchal and Western UP.

**Market Research for the Agriculture Implants, Agriculture Machinery, Intermediate products for Kerala Agro-Machinery Corporation Ltd. (KAMCO)

**Survey and study of the cropping pattern amongst farmers of 10 districts of UP for the Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR)-Govt. of India.

**Empanelment by the National Institute for Agriculture Marketing (NIAM)-Govt. of India for conducting Studies and Evaluations.

**Survey and assessment of over 150,000 horticulture growers of East Godavari District for the Andhra Pradeh State Horticulture Mission-Govt. of AP.

**Impact assessment and Evaluation of the National Horticulture Mission activities in Rajasthan State for the Govt. of Rajasthan.

**Vegetable Baseline Survey in the states of Maharashtra and Goa for SFAC-Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India.
**Survey of the Rubber Plantations for the Rubber Board in Kannur, Kozhikode and Malappuram districts.
II. IT & e-Governance Sector (Development and Maintenance):

(a) Web site design and maintenance functions:

We have more than five years experience of web based software development, hosting and maintenance experience as is evident from the attached certification:

*Design and hosting of www.icrisat.org portal for ICRISAT, Hyderabad.

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.indiafemalefoeticide.org  vide letter# 24076/32/2001/PNDT dated December 3rd 2001 of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India and the letter has been signed by Mr. A.R. Nanda-IAS, Secretary-Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The link of this site may also been seen from the website of www.mohfw.nic.in

*Content development, partnerships and technology assessment for the India Country Development Gateway www.indg.in instituted by the Department of Information Technology-Govt. of India.
  
*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.incredibleindia.org  of Ministry of Tourism. The contact person for the project is Mr. Venkat (9910220280).

*National Council for Hotel Management and Catering (www.nchmt.org) which is part of the Ministry of Tourism-Govt. of India; and we have been hosting their website as well as undertaking maintenance of the site from last more than three years.

*The website on Council for Board for Secondary Education (www.cobse.org) which is part of the Ministry of Human Resources Development-Govt. of India has been hosted, developed and maintained by Datamation.

*The Portal on Female Foeticide www.indiafemalefoeticide.org has been also hosted, developed and maintained by Datamation as an ongoing arrangement.  

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.hudco.org  of India Habitat Centre 

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.Aptel.gov.in  of Appellate Tribunal For Electricity, Ministry of power 

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website of Botanical Garden of Indian Republic(BGIR) , The contact person for the project is Dr. Ahmed Ulla .

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.indiagovernance.gov.in of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and  DARPG.

*Hosting, Development and Maintenance of the website www.mmtclimited.com  of MMTC Ltd.

I. e-Governance Program Management Experience:
*India Country Development Gateway Portal : The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India: The India Country Development Gateway pilot portal was  planned and bids were invited as well as RFPs made since Dataamation was assigned by the World Bank and the Govt. of India the responsibility of technical evaluation and benchmarking of  various portal technologies including development of the pilot portals.

The pilot portal used standard tools offered in free ware such as XML database AIDA proprietary to the Development Gateway Foundation and web server technologies such as Apache.  The development of the pilot portal was spread over a period of six months and Hindi front end apart from back-end processing capabilities including search capabilities were incorporated in the same.

*National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology : For a leading Hotel Management Institute - National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, an interactive portal was planned after holding six month long extensive discussions with all stakeholders. Hindi search and retrieval capabilities were introduced in HYPERLINK "http://www.nchmct.org " www.nchmct.org has been operating successfully for past three years. The portal has been developed using application server Tomcat.

*Planning and Development for the Udayan Care Udayan Care is a New Delhi based Voluntary organization committed to sustainable social development working with the disadvantaged child.  HYPERLINK "http://www.udyancare.org" www.udyancare.org has been developed in free ware.

*India Female Foeticide—Selective Sex Abortions: Planning and development for the  portal  HYPERLINK "http://www.indiafemalefoeticide" www.indiafemalefoeticide. org advocates greater gender equality apart from  encourages the citizens to stop female foeticide.

*Development of the E-Services driven Community Multi-Media Centers in the Seelampur-Zaffrabad area for UNESCO; based on extensive project development and  planning.

*Development of the E-Services and Citizen services driven Panchayat Community ICT Center in the Moorkhanad Panchayat, Mallapuram District of Kerala as part of `kshya’ Program.

*E-services service Centers for the infoDev-World Bank initiative resulting in setting up of 20 Community Multi-Media Centers (CMCs) in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of Central UP.

*Project Development and Implementation  for two `socio-cultural’ initiatives of the Govt. of Karnataka entitled `Dasasahiyta’ and `Rachna Sahiyta’.

II. e-Governance Strategic Program Development Experience:

*Member of the National e-Governance Apex Group set up by the Govt. of India.
*Worked with the IL&FS-DIT as a core member of the 100,000 CSC scheme.

*Documented and Researched 32 ICT for Development Case Studies for the National Institute for Smart Governance.
*Established, Documented and Researched Ongoing ICT for Rural Development Projects for the National Institute for Rural Development, Govt. of India.
* Designed and developed the blue print for the Delhi Govt’s e-governance initiatives roll-out in bi-lingual languages.
*Development of the E-Services and Citizen services driven Panchayat Community ICT Center in the Moorkhanad Panchayat, Mallapuram District of Kerala as part of `Akshya’ Program.
*E-services service Centers for the infoDev-World Bank initiative resulting in setting up of 20 Community Multi-Media Centers (CMCs) in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of Central UP.
*Project Development and Implementation for two `socio-cultural’ initiatives of the Govt. of Karnataka entitled `Dasasahiyta’ and `Rachna Sahiyta’.
*Legal framework for the Public-Private Partnership under the aegis of the `Urban Governance’ project of the Regional Centre for Urban Environmental Studies(RCUES), Lucknow University-UNDP project.  The ULB based PPP was extended to five different towns in UP and Uttaranchal.
*Review of the Citizen-Govt.-Legislature interface under the aegis of the `Bhagidari’ scheme of the Delhi Govt for the General Administration Department of the Delhi Govt. 
*Review of the Strategic planning and implementation framework including the Legal Framework for the study on the `E-Governance Study: Theory to Practice’ for the Indian Institute of  Management, Bangalore. 

III. Transport and Tourism:

Datamation is also empanelled with the Ministry of Tourism-Govt. of India, India Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. (ITDC), and with Kerala Tourism, Gujarat Tourism, Punjab Tourism, Tripura Tourism, Goa Tourism for rendering Tourism Destination Planning and  Infrastructure Development.

**Integrated Tourism Development of Wagah Border-Amritsar Circuit Development for Punjab Tourism. The project entailed development of techno-commercial and Integrated Development of the Historical and Archeological sites spread over the Wagah Border in Amritsar District.

*Integrated Tourism Development of three different sites in Tripura viz. 100 Gods Temple, Kalmasagar. The project entailed development of techno-commercial and Integrated Development of the Historical and Archeological sites spread over the Tripura.

**Technical and Financial Appraisal of the Tourism Infrastructure in the state of Goa.

**Continuous and Domestic Tourists survey and the Technical and Financial Appraisal of Tourism Infrastructure Development in Kerala and other policy inputs for the Govt. of Kerala. 2004-07

**Continuous and Domestic Tourists survey and the Technical and Financial Appraisal of Tourism Infrastructure Development in Kerala and other policy inputs for the Govt. of Kerala. 2008-12

**Tourism surveys in the State of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattishgarh, Sikkim.

**Restoration and Conservation of the City Gates for the State Govt. of Rajasthan i.e. Department of Archeology, Govt. of Rajasthan.

 

IV. Rural Development Sector:

**Perspective Plan and Evaluation of the NREGS implementation in Udham Singh Nagar District of Uttarakhand and Mewat District of Haryana.

**Designing convergence of various Rural Development schemes being run by the line departments; including NREGS at the Panchayat level for the e-PRI project of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj-Govt. of India; and these states include Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Kerala

**Evaluation of the SGSY scheme implementation in Kota Division for Rajasthan Govt.

**Designed Rural Non-Farm Livelihood Interventions for Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Sudhar Nigam Ltd.

**Development of the sustainable livelihoods development plan for the Dalit Voluntary Action Front.

**Impact assessment and evaluation of the World Bank funding in the Poverty alleviation initiatives of the Govt. of Sri Lanka; based on study of 120 Sri Lankan villages.

*Evaluation Study on the Role of SHG and micro finance inputs from JTDP in relative wellbeing of women and their empowerment for the Jharkhand Tribal Development Project.

*Evaluation Study on the Community empowerment in terms of institutional capacity building and access to and control over the natural resources for regeneration and management for the Jharkhand Tribal Development Project.

*Evaluation Study on the Socio economic and environmental impact of natural resources (Specially Land & Water) conservation works in the villages for the Jharkhand Tribal Development Project.

*Evaluation Study on the Migration pattern of the Tribal Community and Impact of JTDP in checking migration for the Jharkhand Tribal Development Project.

*Evaluation Study on the Effectiveness and efficiency of GS/ GSPEC in meeting community needs for the Jharkhand Tribal Development Project.

*Rural Tourism Development for Jharkhand state and its impact on the local economy.

*Evaluation of the NREGS implementation in Udham Singh Nagar District of Uttarakhand.

*Evaluation of the SGSY scheme in Kota Division of Rajasthan for Rajasthan Govt.

*Designed & Monitored Rural Non-Farm Livelihood Interventions for Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Sudhar Nigam Ltd.

*Development of the sustainable livelihoods plan for the Dalit Voluntary Action Front.

*Impact assessment and evaluation of the World Bank funding in the Poverty alleviation initiatives of the Govt. of Sri Lanka; based on study of 120 Sri Lankan villages.

*Impact assessment of the centrally sponsored scheme of the -Gold Hallmark Scheme of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs.

 

*Impact assessment of the Sheep and Wool Improvement scheme (SWIS), Central Wool Development Board, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India.

*Study of the raw material consumption of rare medicinal herbs, animal extracts on behalf of the National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Department of Ayush. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India.

*Documentation of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) initiatives for Department of Information Technology’s NISG which included best practices in Rural ICT services, Rural Citizen Services.

 

V. Urban Development: 

Datamation is empanelled with the Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India; for the preparation of CDP and other infrastructure projects as per JNNURM framework.  We have prepared DPR for a large number of cities and the archaeological conservation of the inner city is a key component of our work.

**Sanitation Survey in all Urban Local Bodies of Karnataka for the Department of Municipal Administration (Govt. of Karnataka).

** Sanitation and Safai Karmachari Survey within all wards of the Bruhat  Bengaluru  Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

**Survey of the coverage of the establishments under the Employee State Insurance Scheme (ESIC) and assessing the gaps and also rating the cities was conducted for ESIC in Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and MP

** Survey and assessment of the Slum Development schemes under the IHSDP scheme for the SUDA, UP for Deoria and Mau towns. The Detailed Project Report on the Urban Infrastructure including Sanitation was appraised by HUDO and other agencies of the UP Govt. and finally approved by the MuD, Govt. of India.

**Baseline Study and of Urban livelihoods initiatives affecting the urban poor of the Seelampur-Zaffrabad cluster in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the Department of Social Welfare-Govt. of Delhi as part of the `Stree-Shakti’ program me. Development of alternate service delivery model based on convergence service delivery within the Municipal Corporation of Delhi; as well as assessment of the vulnerability of the Urban Poor was part of the scope of the work

**Development of the sustainable urban livelihoods development plan in the Hyderabad-Secunderabad-Vizag ULBs for the Dalit Voluntary Action Front.

**Study of the Urban Handloom Cluster in Saunsar for the MP Handlooms.

**Mapping of all Informal and Formal Business Establishments, Nature of Business and also Employment thereof in all the Urban Clusters of MP viz. Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Gwalior.

VI. Public-Private Partnerships:

**Design and Implementation support for Administrative Reforms in the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and  Municipal Corporations in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala.

**Development of a Handbook on the Public-Private Partnerships for the Ministry of Urban Development’s Regional Centre for Urban Environmental Studies (RCUES), Lucknow.

**Design and development of Public-Private Partnerships under the UIDSSMT and IHSDP and JNNURM initiatives of the Govt. of India for the Department of Urban Development, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh; and State Urban Development Agency, Uttar Pradesh Govt.  

**Design and implementation of  Corporate Social Responsibility Programs for CII and other International Bodies.

**Design and implementation support for the participatory Poverty Assessment and Income generating schemes and Local economic development for various Poverty Alleviation Initiatives.

VII. Health Sector:

**Concurrent Monitoring & Evaluation of the NRHM activities in the states of Kerala and Uttarakhand for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India.

**Audience Research and Impact assessment of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India’s NRHM Radio Program-`Khusion Bhara Aangan’

**Audience Research and Impact assessment of the NRHM Health Cards distributed at the `Tirmala Tirupati Devasthanam’ (TTD)

** Evaluation of the Mother NGOs activities as well as Urban NGO activities for Orissa Rural Health Mission, Govt. of Orissa in two districts. 

**Need Assessment Project on HRGs and other vulnerable population group to HIV/AIDS under UPSACS. 

**Planning and setting up of Civil Society Network for combating sex selection abortions under the leadership of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India. 

**Implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Act (PNDT) for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare-Govt. of India. This is part of the RCH initiative.

**Implementation of the Stree Shakti Health Camps focusing on Integrated Health Initiatives for the women; for the Department of Social Welfare-Govt. of Delhi; for past six months.

**Implementation of the Innovative Health Scheme initiative of the World Bank; on behalf of the UPHSDP. .

**Baseline survey and Implementation of the RCH Program in the New Kondli area of  East Delhi.

**Assessment and evaluation of the implementation of the capacity-building initiatives of the HIV/AIDS training programs imparted to various workers of the State AIDS Agencies. Standard guidelines mandated by NACO for their training programs were implemented by Datamation in the evaluations.

**We have  been providing our advocacy and learning materials for the HIV/AIDS programs run by the Delhi Govt’s Dept’s of Social Welfare and the Gender Resource Centre. Lastly our educational content in HIV/AIDS is being integrated into the Delhi Govt’s school’s programs in addition to the overall Life-skills education program.

**Evaluation of the Training programs of the District level authorities on the implementation of the PNDT Act for controlling the incidence of PBEF for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
**Sustainability Impact assessment and evaluation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) implementation in few districts of West Bengal for UNICEF.

**Monitoring of working of the ANM and Anganwadi workers working with the ICDS Department of the Govt. of West Bengal on behalf of UNICEF.

**Operational review of `Catholic Relief Services'--a voluntary American organization supporting USAID’s Food for Work program.  The  review involved study at CRS's  zonal  office  level, counterparts  and operating partners levels spread all  over  India. The    assignment    also   included    recommending    restructured organizational models that would result in sustainable development.

**Sustainability, Impact assessment and evaluation of  Vitamin A-Profilixis Nutrition on Pre-school as well as Childhood Mortality and Morbidity on behalf of the Ford Foundation conducted by the Department of Paediatrics & Health, Banaras Hindu University.  Several Datamation Resources were associated with the project. The project was implemented over 4 year’s duration.

** Sustainability, Impact assessment and evaluation of Community based approach for combating malnutrition in Infant, Children, Adolescents for the Department of Women & Child Development, Govt. Of India.

VIII. Education Sector:

Datamation Consultants Pvt. Ltd.-ISO 9001 company, has a proven record of conducting various Education sector Research Projects for SSA and many other Govt. as well as international  organizations viz. UNICEF,  World Bank in Education, Health sector etc.

• TAS of DPEP interventions in 10 Districts of Rajasthan.
• Research Studies and Evaluation “Teachers Absence in Primary & Upper Primary Schools”-Rajasthan
• A Baseline study of the Status of Teaching of English Elementary Schools in Rajasthan in reference in Speaking, Writing & Teaching Skills of Teachers in English Language
• Assessment of school drop outs in the state of Uttarakhand 
• Effectiveness of Multilevel, multi grade Teaching Kunjapuri Model and its use in large class situation-Uttrakhand
• The study of effectiveness of school grading system in developing classroom management and school management.-Uttrakhand
• Introduction of the workbook & its impact evaluation on children of classes 1&II. –Uttar Pradesh
• Use of Tribal Folk materials and its impact in Classrooms- Uttar Pradesh
• An Impact Study of Teacher Training Programme undertaken under SSA-Jharkhand
• Mid Term Achievement Survey, in DPE, Tribal and other districts district
• 5% Post Enumeration Survey under SSAA, Punjab
• Evaluation of DISE data-Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttrakhand,
• Impact assessment of the multi-mode, non-formal `Kunjapuri’ education model in 30 schools of the five Districts of Uttaranchal on behalf of the `Uttaranchal Sheeksha Sub Ke Liye’.
• Child Census in the state of Uttaranchal for identifying all out of school children.
• Terminal Assessment Performance up to Grade Vth of various Govt. schools in ten DPIP Districts for Rajasthan Council of Primary Education. 
• Evaluation of Alternative Forms of schooling in Rajasthan.
• Evaluation of the Higher and Elementary Education Infrastructure across the main highway stretches of the state of Rajasthan for the Rajasthan Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (RIDCOR)
• Feasibility Study for the roll-out of Educational services from integrated rural development perspective for one of India’s largest Corporate Business House ITC/ The Study was done in nine districts of Maharashtra.

 

VIII. Gender & Social Sector Institutional Audit and Evaluations:

We have more than ten years experience of conducting research and evaluation in the social sector such as women and child development.
**We have successfully completed more than two evaluation/research studies on women as is evident from the attached reports. These studies have been done for the Rashtriya Mahila Kosh-WCD, Govt. of India and the World Bank.

**Study on the Livelihood Training and Forward backward linkages, micro-credit and and SHGs for Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Sudhar Nigam Ltd.Govt. Of UP.

**Impact assessment and Sustainability evaluation of the Micro-credit linked programs on the lives of the Sri Lankan women for the Gemi Diriya Project. Govt. of Sri Lanka; on behalf of the World Bank.

**Evaluation of the Gender Resource Centre working for the Mission Convergence-Govt. of NCT. 

**Ongoing Research & Consultancy for the Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, Department of Women & Child Development-Govt. of India

**Impact assessment of innovative Information & Technological Tools (ICTs) on the most marginalized & disadvantaged women living in communities

**Datamation has been supporting the HIV/AIDS programs at the Central level wherein we were engaged with the NACO in conducting baseline surveys amongst the most affected groups of women.

**We have been providing our advocacy and learning materials for the HIV/AIDS & other women’s health programs run by the Delhi Govt’s Dept’s of Social Welfare and the Gender Resource Centre.

**Monitoring and evaluation of the ICDS program implementation especially amongst the pregnant & lactating women, ANM & Anganwadi workers in the few districts of West Bengal for UNICEF.

**Monitoring of working of the ANM and Anganwadi workers working with the ICDS Department of the Govt. of West Bengal on behalf of UNICEF.

** IX. Rural Water & Sanitation:

**Sustainability Evaluation of the Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation scheme `JalaNidhi’ from two districts of Kerala Thrissur & Palakkad.

**Assessment and Evaluation of the low cost sanitation schemes in the Karnataka state and also assessment of the manual scavengers within the state for the Department of Municipal Administration, Govt. of Karnataka.

**Sustainability evaluation of the Accelerated rural water supply scheme (ARWSP) hand pump evaluation in the state of Bihar.

**Sustainability evaluation of the `Indira Gandhi Rural Drinking Water Supply scheme’ for the Public Health Engineering Department-Govt. of Haryana.

**Socio-economic baseline study of 60 blocks in Rajasthan for the State Water Resources Department-Govt. of Rajasthan.

**Sustainability evaluation of the sanitation and dry latrines, safai karmacharis in all Urban wards of Karnataka for the Directorate of Municipal Administration-Govt. of Karnataka.

**To assess existing capacity of NGOs to carry out water sector related projects at the village level and prepare strategy for their selection and capacity building for the Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Govt. of Maharashtra.

**Assessment of the existing strategy and propose Health, Education, Sanitation strategy (HESS) for behaviour change and better environmental sanitation for the Govt. of Maharashtra.

**Assessment and monitoring of repair of dams in Kutch district, for the Gujarat Kutch Nav Nirman Abhiyan /UNDP/ NGOs.

 X. Micro and Small Enterprises, Handicrafts, Handloom sector;
 
**The Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) commissioned project aimed at examining and evaluating the working of the KVIC Institutions particularly 7,800 village production and sales outlets located in the rural areas. The project covered review of the fast-moving items, slow-moving items, how much inventory of Khadi & Other products is being maintained in the Bhawans; the Human Resource Profile, Financial & Accounting Practices, Automation and Modernization carried out in the outlets.  

**Karnataka Handloom Development Corporation Ltd-The Project entailed preparation of a detailed marketing strategy for KHDC whose flagship brand `Priyadarshini’ has been stagnating despite presence of a large number of outlets (40+) all over the state and outside. Datamation undertook development of a complete marketing strategy for KHDC, apart from developing a brand strategy. Sick outlets were identified for closure, fast & slow selling items were identified. Appropriate packaging and sizing for various items was determined. SWOT of the Brand was carried out and Brand valuation was done as well.

Retail outlets mapping and Retail logistics has been a key component of our work with KHDC.

**Khadi and Village Industries Commission-Under the aegis of this project; we undertook brand evaluation of more than top 100 Khadi and Village items sold from various retail outlets of KVIC. The Brand valuation also included products such as Sandal soap, shampoo, agarbattis (incense stick), pickles, khadi & polyvastra and others. The KVIC outlets were also surveyed. Retail Mapping and Retail logistics has been a key component of our deliverables.

**Madhya Pradesh Hasta Shilpa Evam Hatkargha Nigam Ltd. –The project entailed review of the current positioning of the handloom products made in the Saunsar cluster, and also development of a marketing strategy, retail sale of the handloom products and their packaging was undertaken by Datamation.

**Development Commissioner (Handicrafts)-Govt. of India sponsored Artisan census-2009 was executed in three regions of the country viz. Western Region, Southern Region and the North East Region. The project is expected to cover more 500,000 artisans.

**Development Commissioner (Handicrafts)-Govt. of India sponsored Artisan census-2010 was executed in three regions of the country viz. Western Region, Southern Region and the North East Region. The project is expected to cover more 800,000 artisans.