Aapaan Samachar is an all-women community news network located in Bihar’s remote Ramlila Gachi village. “We look around for issues that affect the villagers, shoot them and then put them on air,” says the channel’s news anchor Khushboo. This news network runs on minimum resources. Reporters, camerapersons and anchors, all move around on bicycles with […]
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Another hero emerges
We are aware of the stupendous super human efforts of late Dashrath Manjhi from Gaya in Bihar who tore open a 300-feet-high hill to create a one-km passage.Now we have another legend from Bihar who has achieved something which is again an unique achievement in itself. Kamaleshwari Singh, a semi-literate farmer of Manikpur village in […]
Bihar first to introduce Biometrics tracking for NREG
It’s encouraging to see the way technology is being used to bridge the gaps between haves and have not’s . Bihar govt has decided to issue smart job cards that also double up as ATM/debit cardsv for villagers working under NREG scheme through biometric authentication. These villagers are workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee […]
