The two-day pre-survey training for the household survey of two villages, Venmani and Palakurichi, in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, was successfully conducted by Arindam Das (Joint Director, FAS) with the assistance of T. Sivamurugan, on April 30, 2019. The participants conducted mock interviews on May 1, 2019. Survey in Venmani village began on May 02, 2019.
The training was attended by the following students and research scholars:
| Sl no | Name | Sex | Institution |
| 1 | K. P. Prithviraj | Male | Madras School of Social Work |
| 2 | Denver Harrison | Male | Madras School of Social Work |
| 3 | Saranya G | Female | Madras School of Social Work |
| 4 | Preethi V | Female | Madras School of Social Work |
| 5 | Monica B | Female | Madras School of Social Work |
| 6 | M Muthuneela | Female | Madras School of Social Work |
| 7 | Suresh Kumar F | Male | Madras School of Social Work |
| 8 | Sangeetha R. | Female | Madras School of Social Work |
| 9 | Arun Bharathy | Male | Madras Institute of Development Studies |
| 10 | Sankara Pandi K | Male | Madras Institute of Development Studies |
| 11 | R. Jancy Rani | Female | University of Madras |
| 12 | M Karuppasamy | Male | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad |
| 13 | Nandhini Nanjappan | Female | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad |
| 14 | Sabarisakthi | Male | The Gandhigram Rural Institute |
| 15 | S Nithya | Female | The Gandhigram Rural Institute |
| 16 | A Logeshwari | Female | The Gandhigram Rural Institute |
| 17 | Durgadevi | Female | The Gandhigram Rural Institute |
| 18 | Kalpanadevi O | Female | The Gandhigram Rural Institute |
| 19 | Arularasan G | Male | Pondicherry University |
| 20 | Nithya K | Female | Pondicherry University |
| 21 | Sankaran M | Male | Pondicherry University |
| 23 | Sethu CA | Male | Foundation for Agrarian Studies |
| 24 | Arindam Das | Male | Foundation for Agrarian Studies |
| 25 | Rakesh Kumar | Male | Foundation for Agrarian Studies |
| 26 | Divya Devadiga | Female | Foundation for Agrarian Studies |
| 27 | Sanjukta C | Female | Foundation for Agrarian Studies |
| 28 | V Surjit | Male | National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj |
| 29 | T Sivamurugan | Male | National Intitute of Technology Trichy |