Visit to Chaitanya (Gramin Mahila Swayamsidha Sangh), Rajguru Nagar (Khed), Pune

I drove to Khed from Pune city on the 4th afternoon. Khed is a small Taluka place and everybody seems to know everyone else. It wasn't difficult to spot the office (even though it is small) for how famous Chaitanya is.

First, I met with 2 members of technical staff - Tushar and Deepak. They seem to have a very good understanding of their operations and numbers, and answered all my questions without blinking. Later, the CEO, Ms. Kaushalya joined and I gave an informal presentation of Plebeian - the model and management team. She was more interested in the people who are going to run the show.

Ms. Kaushalya liked the idea, and showed interest to be a part of the Plebeian system. I look at thier williness for partnering with Plebeain as an important milestone. She had certain concerns though, including:
- How and who will collect the requirements
- Chainanya has around 16000 clients, do we want to have all of them in the system?
- How and why the Plebeian website will gain popularity
- How Plebeian itself will operate ;) because the Plebeian team is distributed.
..etc (mostly related to the business requirements and not questioning our presence or ability)


She expected us to extend a proposal that will include the responsibilities of both the parties in the partnership. Before that, she would like to know the whereabout of Plebeian (Team, registered office, nature of the org etc), because she candidly said that she never heard about it, and we cant blame her, can we!!! ;) She also expects to have some sort of interface which should be more than communicating over a telephone line - our analyst needs to go on site, learn their operations and collect requirements.

Currently, they are not using any MIS for accounting purpose but a plain MS excel. I wonder how they manage to put 16K clients information into such a volatile storage utility.