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Project Raahat

Project Raahat is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Project Raahat rather than just read about it. In short: Project Raahat is an initiative of Enactus Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies and was started on 29 December 2015 in collaboration with Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, India. Under Project Raahat, the management of Community Toilet Complexes (CTCs) is undertaken by the students, including aspects relating to operational management, aesthetic modifica…

Key takeaways

Project Raahat belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Project Raahat to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Project Raahat from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Project Raahat is an initiative of Enactus Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies and was started on 29 December 2015 in collaboration with Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, India. Under Project Raahat, the management of Community Toilet Complexes (CTCs) is undertaken by the students, including aspects relating to operational management, aesthetic modification and sensitisation activities. The project was opened at toilets in Sultanpuri and Kirti Nagar.

Need Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside and not into a designated toilet. The term is widely used in literature about water, sanitation, and hygiene issues in developing countries. Open defecation causes public health problems in areas where people defecate in fields, urban parks, rivers, and open trenches, near the living space of others.

Raahat Model The Raahat Model is carried out in phases.

The first leg of the project is identification of a slum in which they can conduct their operations. The sites have to be scouted for the demography, as well as adequate infrastructural requirements to suit the needs of the project. Need assessment surveys are carried out for the same. After a required site has been chosen, the appropriate governmental body (mostly DUSIB) is contacted for allocation of a toilet complex in the vicinity of that area. Also, an entrepreneur and a cleaner is identified from the community which acts as the caretaker for the toilet complex. The entrepreneur is free to take decisions for the CTC in consultation with the project members. The caretaker is taught how to carry out basic operations for the site for a period of one year, after which the intervention of the team is minimal. Skill development and training of the entrepreneur takes place simultaneously. Raahat empowers it’s entrepreneurs in the following ways: Livelihood i.e. a source of income is provided by the project. Most people in slums work as daily wage laborers who either don’t earn in proportion to their work or are unable to fend for their families. Raahat provides productivity linked income to the entrepreneurs which uplifts them through a better living status. Safety and Security of job and work is not often found in the informal sector. Raahat complies with all the rules and regulations of formal business sector and hence shifts the populace from the unorganized to an organized business environment. Social Security Benefits are almost never availed by urban slum dwellers. All the Raahat entrepreneurs and cleaners are provided with basic amenities like a gratuity fund and life insurance, bringing them peace of mind. The operations begin with aesthetic modification of the site with wall art, posters and vertical gardens. Moving forward, proper set-up for the model to work.

Innovations

Raahi The team created a cartoon character called Rahi, a superhero, to draw the attention of slum kids towards the importance of using a toilet. The character is used in their camps, being impersonated by one other members. Kids see Raahi as a someone who is there to help them lead a healthy life.

Ticket System A ticket system has been put in by Project Raahat in their complexes which enables the community to reap benefits through reduced expenditure on their use of the CTC. Under conventional pay-per-use system employed in majority of the toilet complexes, the users are charged Re.1 each time they use a toilet complex. Under the Ticket system, they buy a bundle of Rs.10 containing 11 tickets instead. The users turn in one ticket each time they use the complex.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Project Raahat

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Project Raahat claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Project Raahat before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Project Raahat ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Project Raahat

In research: Project Raahat appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Project Raahat in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Project Raahat is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Sanitation, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Project Raahat outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Project Raahat in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Project Raahat means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Project Raahat out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Project Raahat in simple terms?

Why does Project Raahat matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Project Raahat?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Project Raahat.