metagaonFor a block or a district
Your programmes built the producers. We move the goods.
We are not asking anybody to adopt a new platform. Self-help groups (SHGs), producer collectives and village enterprises already exist in every block in Bihar. What they have never had is a cheap, reliable way to move what they make across the block and district. That is the network we already run.
Where a vehicle network plugs in
Bihar's own rural livelihoods mission is the closest fit, and the pattern below holds for any of them.
| What the programme already has | What is missing | What we already run |
|---|---|---|
| Group-run kitchens | Reach beyond the building they cook in | A kitchen sells to the villages around it with no storefront and no delivery to arrange |
| Group produce and craft | Market linkage — the oldest unsolved problem in the model | A catalogue for the district, and a storefront for buyers outside it, at a price the group sets |
| Village-level retail | Restocking without a day's travel to the block | The block market and the wholesale tier beneath it, on the same vehicles |
| Producer groups and FPOs | Aggregation and first-mile movement | Standing weekly demand, the grower named, collection on the fleet |
| A community cadre | Nothing — this part already works | Our Sahayak is the same idea: one person covering one panchayat, whose word is the verification. They can be the same person. |
| Elderly and ultra-poor households | Something that reaches a person who cannot travel | Daily meals cooked in the same village, paid help from neighbours, and a doctor for ₹50 without a day's wage lost |
A second record the fleet builds as it drives: rural road conditions
The fleet's vehicles measure road condition as they drive. Every trip returns motion and energy data, and 645 km across 2,112 road segments in Nalanda now carry a condition rating built from 19,381 of the fleet's own passes.
No block or district engineer has that for rural roads, and nobody is selling it to them. It needs no household to sign up to anything, and it is the easiest thing on this page to say yes to.
One district, as we hold it
900 km of road across 3,146 segments, 285 villages and panchayats placed with real coordinates, and 229 panchayats enumerated across 20 blocks. Bright is road the fleet's vehicles have measured; faint is road we have mapped but not yet driven.
What a block pilot involves
- 01
An introduction, not a procurement
The first useful step is a conversation with whoever runs the programme on the ground. Nothing is bought and nothing is sanctioned.
- 02
One block, named
We start where the groups already are, and where a vehicle can reach them. One block is enough to find out whether this helps.
- 03
The producers keep their own prices
Nothing about a programme's own arrangements changes. We carry goods and show them a market; the group decides what it sells for.
- 04
You see the village pages from the first week
Every village page shows what the network already counts — who delivers there, who earns from it, and which services run in that panchayat. No separate survey to commission, and nothing going stale between rounds.
Ask for a block.
Tell us which block and which programme, and we will come and show you what it looks like there rather than in a slide. Write to pilots@metagaon.com and a person answers — we are a small team in Nalanda and these do not go to a queue.