IGNOU MSCHSC Project: MHCP 001 (MHCP 1) Field Project and MHCP 002 (MHCP 2) Research Project

IGNOU MSCHSC Project: Two Courses, Two Kinds of Work

Everything else follows from that split. The Year 1 file has no synopsis, no hypothesis and no chapter scheme. It is a practicum record of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercises, visits, a campaign plan and a case study, written to the proformas in the field project manual IGNOU issued in January 2025. The Year 2 study is the one that looks like a dissertation, and it is the only MHCP course with an approval step before the work begins.

The table sets the two courses side by side, from the MSCHSC Programme Guide (September 2024), the Year 1 field project manual (January 2025) and the July 2026 Common Prospectus.

One question reaches us early from MSCHSC students: does the November or May window cover the MHCP 2 proposal as well? The Programme Guide attaches those months to the finished files, the completed MHCP 1 file and the MHCP 2 report. It names no month for the proposal, which goes by email once your counsellor has signed it.

Which MSCHSC Reference Set Matches Your Year?

Material in this IGNOU MSCHSC project category is sorted by course code, because the two courses produce different documents. A Year 1 student needs to see a finished field file: how a social map is described, how a focus group is written up, what a three-day campaign looks like on paper. A Year 2 student needs a model research proposal and a model report.

MHCP 001: Twelve Field Activities, Ten to Submit

For the IGNOU MSCHSC project in Year 1, the MHCP 001 Field Project in Home Science manual lists 12 activities and asks for 10. Seven are compulsory: Activities 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 12. From the other five (5, 7, 8, 9 and 11) you pick any three. Activities 2, 3 and 4 are three PRA exercises, each done with a different tool chosen from five: social mapping, resource mapping, seasonal diagram, transect walk and technology table.

Students often ask us which topic the Year 1 manual hands them. It fixes none. The FGD subjects it suggests (adolescent nutrition, breast-feeding, financial literacy and others) and the campaign themes both end with “any other”, so for MHCP 1 those lists are examples, not a menu.

Where to begin is the part MSCHSC learners describe to us as the hardest, and many say no counselling session showed them a finished field file. The manual’s own order helps: choose one area first (malnutrition, women’s empowerment, migrants, climate change and so on), then look for an organisation working on it.

Finding an NGO and Carrying the Annexure II Letter

An IGNOU MSCHSC project in Year 1 runs through an organisation: an NGO, a government agency, a civil society group, a company’s CSR foundation or any development body near you. The manual makes finding it your responsibility. The Academic Counsellor at your study centre can help you identify a community or organisation, and the Programme Guide says study centres will help learners reach one, but the choice stays with you.

Annexure II of the manual is a permission letter addressed to the organisation. It is signed by an official or coordinator at your IGNOU Regional Centre, so collect that signature before your first meeting with the NGO. If an organisation is slow to say yes, the manual suggests starting with the community itself: visit the village, tribal area or slum a few times, build rapport and identify key informants before any activity.

In the synopses we see on other IGNOU courses, evaluator comments often ask for a study rooted in the student’s own city or location. MHCP 1 builds that in: Activity 12.2 asks for a need assessment plan for your own village, so an organisation near home saves you a second round of travel.

How Long Does the MHCP 1 Project Take?

The manual budgets the IGNOU MSCHSC project in Year 1 at 24 field days of 5 hours each, spread over two to three months depending on your organisation’s schedule. You do not have to be in the field every day. Keep a field diary from the first visit, because each activity in the file must carry its own date.

The finished file goes in for evaluation in November or May. On our planning, a student aiming at November should finish field work by about September, which leaves October for writing, the counsellor’s page-by-page signatures and the two annexures.

In our records, 70 to 80 percent of project students start only in the final month before a date falls due. For MHCP 1 that habit runs into arithmetic: 24 field days cannot be squeezed into October if the file is meant for November.

Some MSCHSC students hold back because they expect IGNOU to push each date by a month. Nobody can promise that, and an extension does not add field days to an MHCP 1 file that still needs a signature on each page.

Year 2 has its own rush: many MHCP 2 proposals leave in the final week before students hope to send the report, which leaves no time for approval, let alone the study.

Writing the Year 1 Field File, Activity by Activity

Format questions about the IGNOU MSCHSC project file have answers in the manual, but they are spread across its activities. Gathered in one place:

• Use both ruled sheets for writing and plain sheets for drawing and pasting photographs.
• Paste live photographs of your visits, preferably geo-tagged so they show the date and location.
• Write the date of the visit for every activity separately.
• For each PRA tool, draw and paste the diagram, then describe it; name 3 to 4 key informants; a resource map also needs direction indicators (North, South, East, West).
• For the seasonal diagram and the transect walk, the manual’s worked examples run through objectives, observations, inferences and, for the walk, community insights and a reflection.
• For the FGD, write each question with the answers received, then the outcomes and how the discussion could help qualitative research.
• For the campaign, write each of the three days separately and explain the IEC material you used.
• On the first page: your name, enrolment number, course code MHCP-001 and course name Field Project in Home Science, with your Academic Counsellor’s signature.

Once the field days are over, the first thing Year 1 students ask us is what shape the MHCP 1 file should take. The manual answers activity by activity rather than in one place, which is why the table above pulls each activity’s headings together.

Page order comes next. For MHCP 1 the manual fixes only the front: the first page with your particulars, then Annexure I and Annexure III. After that, the activities in their own number order is the arrangement we suggest.

A gap we see often in field files: the tool itself is missing, whether the FGD question list or the entrepreneur’s interview schedule. The MHCP 1 manual asks you to write down the FGD questions with responses and to prepare a schedule for Activity 8, so both belong inside the file.

Annexures I and III and a Signature on Every Page

Two forms travel with the IGNOU MSCHSC project file in Year 1, and a third stays with the organisation. The Academic Counsellor or Supervisor also signs every page of the file, as well as the declaration.

The annexures confuse many MSCHSC students. Annexure III gets left out, or Annexure II, the letter meant for the NGO, goes into the MHCP 1 file in its place.

On Annexure I we often find blanks: the counsellor’s designation or address missing, now and then the student’s own enrolment number. The form asks for your name in block letters, your enrolment number and the organisation’s name, so fill each line of the MHCP 1 declaration before anyone signs it.

A missing counsellor signature on Annexure I, the MHCP 1 declaration that the work is bonafide and original, is the one gap we most want caught before an envelope is sealed.

Sending the MHCP 1 File: Envelope or Portal

The IGNOU MSCHSC project file for Year 1 goes in by one of two routes, in November or May.

• By post or courier. Put the original file in a sealed envelope marked “Field Project in Home Science – MHCP-001”, addressed to the Student Evaluation Division (SED), Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068, with your name and address as sender. The manual’s own address line misprints the University’s name as “India Gandhi”; write it correctly.
• On the portal. Scan every page, each carrying your counsellor’s signature, and upload the file in PDF format on IGNOU’s portal for project submission, Annexures I and III included.

Before either route, keep a scanned copy or photocopy of the whole file. The Programme Guide asks for two copies of each MHCP file, one for IGNOU and one kept by you.

Emailing the finished MHCP 1 file is a slip we see. The manual names only the SED envelope or the portal; email is the soft copy route of the MHCP 2 report, not of the Year 1 file.

Keep proof of posting. A dated speed post or courier receipt is your only record that the MHCP 1 envelope left before the November or May window closed.

How many copies, and to whom, is a question we answer each season. For MSCHSC the Programme Guide’s answer is two copies of each MHCP file: one to IGNOU, the second kept with you.

Who Guides an IGNOU MSCHSC Project?

The guide for an IGNOU MSCHSC project is the Academic Counsellor or Supervisor approved for project work, the person the Programme Guide calls the “Guide”. The Year 1 manual adds that this counsellor at your study centre is approved by the Discipline of Home Science, School of Continuing Education (SOCE). Neither document describes an outside-guide route of the kind MBA or MLIS students use, and the counselling schedule from your study centre tells you when the counsellor is available.

Among the counsellor’s listed duties are helping learners with projects and helping them identify an NGO or government organisation for both MHCP courses.

Most MSCHSC students we speak to have not checked who counts as an eligible guide. For both MHCP courses the documents give a narrow answer: a counsellor approved for MSCHSC project work at your study centre.

Students sometimes tell us no guide was available, so they asked a relative or a former teacher to sign. Check approval first: an MSCHSC project signature is meant to come from the approved Academic Counsellor or Supervisor, and your study centre or the programme coordinators can tell you who that is.

When a counsellor asks for several rounds of changes to an MHCP 2 proposal, weeks pass before the email to the evaluators is even sent. Put that time into your Year 2 calendar.

MHCP 002 Research Project in Home Science: What the Programme Guide Asks

The Year 2 half of the IGNOU MSCHSC project is a research study, quantitative or qualitative, which can be done with a voluntary organisation or a government agency. The Programme Guide asks that the topic have research significance and follow a proper research methodology, and it encourages tying the project to a local community, NGO or development institution. Its sequence, as printed:

1. Prepare the Research Proposal and get the concurrence and signature of your Academic Counsellor or Supervisor at the study centre.
2. Email it to the evaluators at IGNOU headquarters, at the email id that will be provided to you, for approval.
3. After approval, carry out the study and prepare the detailed project report file under your supervisor’s guidance.
4. Get the Academic Counsellor’s signature on the report file.
5. Submit it in November or May: soft copy to the email id given for project submission, or hard copy to SED, IGNOU Headquarters, New Delhi.

The Programme Guide says the printed material for both MHCP courses comes as separate project handbooks with all guidelines, and that the MHCP 2 report must carry the forms in that handbook’s annexures. The Year 1 handbook is on eGyanKosh; we could not find the Year 2 handbook online in October 2026, so ask your study centre for it.

Many MHCP 2 studies we see lean only on published figures. The Programme Guide does not forbid secondary data. It does ask for a project tied to a local community or organisation, which in practice means data you collect there.

Missing objectives, hypotheses or a methodology section is a gap we find in many Year 2 proposals. The Programme Guide asks for “a proper research methodology” in plain words, so an MHCP 2 proposal without one starts on weak ground.

Proposals come back when the rationale or the questionnaire is missing. For MHCP 2 the rationale is where you show the research significance the Programme Guide asks for, and the draft tool shows the evaluators how the data will be gathered.

The IGNOU MSCHSC Synopsis: Building the MHCP 2 Proposal

Students search for an IGNOU MSCHSC synopsis; the Programme Guide calls the same document the Research Proposal. It prints no section list, and the Year 2 handbook that should carry one was not online when we checked. Until you have that handbook, a proposal built from the MHC-008 research methods course covers what an evaluator of a community development study will look for. This outline is our planning aid, not an IGNOU list:

• Title naming the community or programme and the place
• Introduction and rationale (why the question matters there)
• Review of literature
• Objectives, and hypotheses where the design is quantitative
• Research design, named, with one line on why it fits
• Population, sampling frame, sampling method and sample size
• Tools of data collection and how you will check their reliability
• Plan of analysis matched to each objective
• Period of the study and a chapter scheme
• References

In MHCP 2 proposals the references and the literature review often disagree: authors cited in the review are missing from the list, or the list carries works the review does not mention. Check each name both ways before your counsellor signs.

Two lines we often find missing from an MSCHSC proposal are the period of the study and the chapter scheme. With no MHCP 2 section list in print, add both; they take a few lines and answer questions evaluators raise on other IGNOU courses.

Sending the MHCP 2 Proposal by Email

For the IGNOU MSCHSC project in Year 2, the proposal does not go to a study centre counter or a Regional Centre. Once your Academic Counsellor or Supervisor has agreed to it and signed it, you email it to the evaluators at IGNOU headquarters, at the email id IGNOU provides to you. That id is given to students, not printed in the Programme Guide, so we do not publish one here.

Some Year 2 students plan to send the proposal and the report together near the report window, without a signature on either. MHCP 2 runs in stages: the signed proposal is approved first, then the study is done, then the signed report file goes in.

Students ask whether the MHCP 2 proposal goes to the study centre, the Regional Centre or Maidan Garhi. For MSCHSC it goes by email to the headquarters evaluators; only a hard copy of the finished report travels to SED at Maidan Garhi.

Keep the sent email with its date and attachment. For an emailed MHCP 2 proposal that copy is your receipt, and it is what you quote when you follow up.

How Long Does MHCP 2 Approval Take?

The Programme Guide gives no approval period for the IGNOU MSCHSC project proposal, and the evaluators’ reply comes to you by email. Plan your field calendar on the assumption that it will take a while.

Across IGNOU project courses, our experience is that a proposal takes two to three months to come back approved. Plan the MHCP 2 fieldwork after that gap, not inside it.

Many students do not know whom to ask when a month or two passes in silence. For MSCHSC, the July 2026 prospectus names the programme coordinators: Prof. Heena K. Bijli (heenakbijli@ignou.ac.in, 011-29572948) and Dr. Meenu Verma (meenuverma@ignou.ac.in, 011-29572951), Discipline of Home Science, SOCE, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi.

We have seen students on other courses whose approval did not reach them before the session ran out. With MHCP 2, write to the coordinators with your enrolment number and the date of your original email well before the report window.

Approval Comments and What to Do With Them

An approved MHCP 2 proposal can still carry instructions from the evaluators, and those instructions shape the report you send later.

Most approvals we see on IGNOU projects arrive with correction points attached; expect the same for MHCP 2.

Students often treat approval as the finish line and skip the comments. Work each comment into the MHCP 2 report and keep the approval email with your papers.

The comment we see most is on the review of literature: bring it up to date. For an MSCHSC study that usually means adding recent programme data and studies on the scheme or community you chose.

What If the MHCP 2 Proposal Comes Back?

No resubmission rule for MHCP 2 appears in the documents we read. Revise against the evaluators’ comments, have your counsellor sign the new version, and send it by the same email route unless the reply tells you otherwise.

When students resubmit, many forget the first version. Send the revised MHCP 2 proposal with the original and the evaluators’ comments attached so the reader can see what changed; the Programme Guide sets no format for this, so treat it as our suggestion.

Students also ask which papers go with an MSCHSC proposal and whether it should be bound. The Programme Guide asks for the counsellor’s concurrence and signature and says nothing on binding; an emailed MHCP 2 proposal is simply a signed, scanned document.

IGNOU MSCHSC Project Topics for MHCP 2

Good IGNOU MSCHSC project topics for Year 2 name one community or programme, one question and one method you can manage from home. The examples below are our planning ideas, not an IGNOU list, and each draws on a Year 2 course.

• Mothers’ exposure to nutrition counselling and complementary feeding practices in one block (MHC-006, Management of Maternal and Child Health)
• Knowledge and skills of self-help group members before and after a livelihood training (MDV-110, Training and Development)
• A behaviour change campaign on handwashing and household practice in one village (MHC-007, Social and Behaviour Change)
• Women’s participation in gram sabha meetings in one panchayat (MHC-009, if chosen as your elective)
• Outcomes of a CSR-funded skilling programme for women in one district (MEDS-051, if chosen as your elective)
• Handloom or handicraft work as a livelihood for women in one cluster (MHC-005, Block 2 on Textiles and Handicrafts for Livelihood Promotion)

Your Year 1 file can seed the question. Activity 12.2 already asked for a need assessment plan in your own village, and a PRA exercise or a focus group may have surfaced a problem worth testing. No document says whether an MHCP 2 project may build on your MHCP 1 site, so ask your counsellor before you commit.

Topic lists on other sites offer child cognition or college students’ food choices. Those belong to other branches of Home Science. MSCHSC is a community development and extension programme, so a study of a community, a programme or an extension activity sits closer to what MHCP 2 asks for.

Drafting the MHCP 2 Method From MHC-008

MHC-008, Research Methods in Community Development and Extension Management, is a 4-credit Year 2 course with four blocks: Research in Community Development; Development Research and Qualitative Research Methods and Techniques; Tools of Data Collection; and Data Analysis. Its assignment for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions asks you to work through the same decisions an MHCP 2 proposal needs. The pairing below is our reading, not an IGNOU instruction; reuse the reasoning, never the assignment text.

In MHCP 2 reports the analysis chapter is often too thin to carry the objectives: one percentage table per question and no test of the hypotheses. The cross-tabulation and correlation questions in the MHC-008 assignment are the analysis your report needs.

What Order Should the MHCP 2 Report Follow?

No chapter list for the MHCP 2 report appears in the documents we could read. The order most community development studies follow is preliminary pages (title, the handbook’s forms, the approval), introduction, review of literature, methodology, analysis, findings, summary and recommendations, references and an appendix with the tool. Check it against the Year 2 handbook once you have it.

In our experience, a report that carries an old review of literature loses ground. Before the MHCP 2 report is signed, update the review from the version in your approved proposal.

MSCHSC sets no referencing style, so pick one consistent format and check that each report or data source used in the MHCP 2 analysis appears in the list.

Some students attach each filled questionnaire to the report. The Programme Guide says nothing on this for MHCP 2; one blank copy of the tool in the appendix is common practice.

Where Does the MHCP 2 Report Go?

The finished IGNOU MSCHSC project report in Year 2 goes in November or May, after the Academic Counsellor has signed the report file: as a soft copy to the email id provided for project submission, or as a hard copy to SED, IGNOU Headquarters, New Delhi. The same Programme Guide page also describes an online portal upload for both MHCP courses, with every scanned page carrying the guide’s signature and each annexure scanned too. Follow whichever route the notice for your cycle names.

Missing papers send reports back. For MHCP 2 the Programme Guide names the annexure forms from the handbook that certify bonafide work at your organisation, plus your counsellor’s signature on the report file; collect both before you scan or post.

IGNOU MSCHSC Project Fee and Evaluation

The IGNOU MSCHSC project fee follows the credit slabs in the July 2026 Common Prospectus, which apply from the January 2023 admission cycle: Rs 300 for project work of up to 4 credits and Rs 500 above 4 credits, paid with the Term-End Examination form and not refundable. MHCP 1, at 4 credits, is Rs 300. MHCP 2, at 6 credits, is Rs 500.

Students paying for both MSCHSC projects in one cycle often mix up the two amounts. MHCP 1 sits in the Rs 300 slab and MHCP 2 in the Rs 500 slab, because the line falls at 4 credits.

Is there a viva? We are asked this about both MHCP courses. Neither the Year 1 manual nor the Programme Guide describes one; the manual says the MHCP 1 file is assessed by evaluators at IGNOU headquarters out of 100 marks.

Year 1, Year 2 and the PGDCDEM Exit

MSCHSC is an 80-credit, year-wise programme with January and July admissions, launched from the July 2024 session under Notification No. 146 of 13 June 2024. Year 1 carries 40 credits, MHCP 1 among them, and a student who stops after Year 1 can exit with the PG Diploma in Community Development and Extension Management (PGDCDEM). MHCP 2 is not part of that diploma; the M.Sc. cannot be completed without it.

Theory courses carry one compulsory assignment each and a term-end examination in June or December, and in the first year of admission a student can sit the examinations only after one year. The MHCP courses have no assignment: they are assessed on the project work.

Where the MSCHSC Documents Disagree

Reading the manual, the Programme Guide, the launch notification and the prospectus side by side turns up these mismatches. The last column is our advice.

Own Fieldwork, AI Drafts and Reference Sets

A reference set for the IGNOU MSCHSC project shows structure and method. It cannot stand in for your file: MHCP 1 needs your own photographs, visit dates, counsellor signatures and an NGO certificate, and MHCP 2 needs data you collected. The Programme Guide warns against copying project work from others or buying it from the market, and says such unfair means lead to disqualification. Use a set to see how a section is built, then write from your own field diary.

Time is usually the real problem. Students who leave the MHCP 1 file to the final weeks find that 24 field days cannot be written up from memory.

Drafts produced with AI tools by students who have not read the Year 1 manual miss its proformas: no key informants, no direction indicators on maps, no dated visits. The MSCHSC write-up has to answer what the manual asks, and only the manual says that.

Proposals drawn from the same widely shared source end up with the same MHCP 2 topic as other students’ work, and a duplicate topic is a familiar reason for a proposal to come back.

Assumed Data and Copied Text

Evaluators at IGNOU decide approval and marks for both MHCP courses; nothing on this page or in a reference set changes that.

Some analysis chapters we see rest on numbers nobody collected. For MHCP 1 the PRA diagrams and FGD answers must come from your own sessions with named informants; for MHCP 2 the tables must come from your own survey.

An AI-written MHCP 2 report sent in as it is repeats the topics and phrasing of others made the same way, which is one more reason the same MSCHSC titles keep appearing.

Text lifted from websites into an MSCHSC file without a plagiarism check is a risk you can see in advance. Run a check on the MHCP 2 report before your counsellor signs it.

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Your First IGNOU MSCHSC Project Step This Week

Whichever year you are in, the IGNOU MSCHSC project rewards an early start more than a long one.

1. Year 1: read all 12 activities, pick your three choice activities, and list two or three organisations near home.
2. Year 1: get Annexure II signed at your Regional Centre and start a field diary on the first visit.
3. Year 2: ask your study centre for the Year 2 handbook and the email id for proposals.
4. Year 2: draft the proposal from your MHC-008 notes, then book time with your counsellor for the signature.

If you want a project prepared around your own topic rather than a reference set, see our customised project service. Preparing for the theory papers too? The MSCHSC solved guess papers cover the term-end examinations.

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