What We Do
Research & Technology
Field research, and the tools we built because the field needed them.
What we do
Research at JCKTPIC is fieldwork first. Our teams sit in villages, run participatory exercises, and come back with data that communities recognise as their own. That work then feeds two directions — publications and policy inputs on one side, and working technology on the other.
Services
What we offer
- Baseline surveysVillage, household and enterprise level.
- Impact assessmentMid-term and end-line evaluation against stated indicators.
- Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)Transect walks, resource and social mapping, seasonal calendars, wealth ranking.
- Participatory Action Research (PAR)Long-form community-led enquiry.
- Detailed Project Reports (DPR)Livelihood, skill and infrastructure proposals.
- Indigenous knowledge documentationOral tradition, ethnobotany, craft technique, food systems.
- Socio-economic and livelihood studiesTribal agriculture, food security, migration, closed-plantation economies.
- Data servicesInstrument design, enumerator training, digital collection, analysis, reporting.
Process
How we work
The research cycle loops: community entry, participatory mapping, data collection, analysis, report and publication, back to the community.
Detail
Institutional research
We have conducted 25+ baseline surveys, PRA and impact assessments with Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, alongside independent social research on tribal agriculture, food security, indigenous knowledge systems and rural livelihoods in Odisha and North Bengal.
Technology
Our technology
Mahul Vani AI
A vernacular voice assistant built for people who do not type. Mahul Vani covers 30+ tribal languages, carries an archive of over 100,000 indigenous knowledge entries, gives hyper-local agricultural guidance, and can read a photograph of a crop or a pest and answer back — by voice, in the speaker's own language.
Featured in the Times of India
VanaDrishti VR
An immersive training platform with 50 modules — forest, farm and craft environments that let a trainee practise before they ever stand in the real one. Used alongside our on-site training and, increasingly, packaged with Mahul Vani as paid farmer-training modules in agriculture and allied sectors.
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Baseline surveys, PRA & impact assessments
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