An Application Suite: Effectiveness in Tracking and Monitoring of Skill Training Programs

Abstract

Conducting and monitoring skill training programs for rural population always involves a huge amount of administrative tasks and tracking processes. To ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of the program it is mandatory to implement a proper tracking and monitoring system. In this paper, we present a software application suite for monitoring and tracking of the PMKVY (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana) training programs in the rural settlements of India conducted by an NGO. We discuss the common challenges and the design considerations that were used while designing and implementing the application. Sentiment analysis was applied on the feedback received through the mobile application and it was observed that 66% of the feedback were of positive polarity. Also, the word frequency analysis on the same data revealed that the feedback was mostly about the students and that too on a daily basis. With these observations, the potential to apply NLP in the future is also discussed.