A farming initiative by the two IITians Shashank and Manish has helped the villagers of Bihar’s Vaishali district earn three times what they used to earn a year ago. The initiative has been introduced in 30 villages so far. The two IITians who refused to pursue a cushy and lucrative career and decided to work [...]
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IITians leave cushy jobs to work with farmers
July 8, 2011 in Agri Business, Agricultural Innovation, Entrepreneurship, IIT, Innovation, Social Entrepreneurs
Bihar Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) Conference
May 15, 2011 in BENCON, Bihar Economic Development, Bihar Entrepreneurs Network (BEN), Bodh Gaya, Development Projects in Bihar, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development, Social Entrepreneurs
Bihar is witnessing a unprecedented surge in investment sentiments, private players have shown keen interest in tapping the great potential which Bihar has to offer. Biharis around the world have also been keenly observing the growing revival of Bihar and there long cherish dream to invest in Bihar. Most of the Non Resident Biharis are [...]
Agricultural Innovation in Rural Bihar
October 17, 2010 in Agri Business, Agricultural Innovation, Grassroot Innovation, Rural Development, Social Entrepreneurs
Bihar has seen significant growth in the area of infrastructure and related dimensions of economic development in the last few years. Bihar has around 60% of its workforce sustaining livelihood through agricultural sector and 42% of the State Domestic Product comes from agricultue. It clearly indicates that without agricultural development, growth will remain on periphery [...]
Bihar’s Super 30 gets International Recognition
September 19, 2010 in Anand Kumar, Education in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, IIT-JEE, IIT-JEE Topper, Patna, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Service, Super 30, Super 30 Video, Wonders of Bihar
Bihar’s Super 30 has added another laurel to its credit. Recently Super 30 was featured by Time magazine in the list of the “Best of Asia 2010“, now Newsweek in its latest edition included Super 30 in the list of four most innovative schools in the world. Newsweek quotes “For years now the path to [...]
Green Initiative
June 7, 2010 in Development Projects in Bihar, Environmental Science, Grassroot Innovation, Green Initiative, Social Entrepreneurs
On the eve of world’s environment day, it’s heartening to see encouraging green initiatives in Bihar. Civil Servent SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar. BBC reports “His campaign to encourage people to plant trees effectively addresses two burning issues [...]
Social Innovation Matters
February 7, 2010 in Cycle Rickshaw Project- Samman, E-Governance in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, Jankari, Social Entrepreneurs
If someone ever felt short of ideas and inspiration, one just needs to looks at the fabulous innovations which have taken place in Bihar over the last few years. Always lambasted for it’s under utilization of its natural resources, recent idea rich innovations have given momentum to grass root innovations. This has been the most [...]
Global recognition for Bihar’s Husk Power Project
July 14, 2009 in Bihari Newsmakers, Development Projects in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, Husk Power, Newsmaker from Bihar, Social Entrepreneurs
In one of my earlier post I had mentioned about the classic example of grass root innovation by Manoj Sinha who was featured on NYT for his unique contribution of coming up with Husk power system for transforming rural power generation. Husk Power Systems won first place in 2008 in the University of Virginia business [...]
Power Generation for Rural Bihar
January 3, 2009 in Bihar 2.0, Bihar Economic Development, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, Grassroot Innovation, Social Entrepreneurs
Grass root innovation is gaining considerable momentum in Bihar. We have yet another success story of Manoj Sinha who has been recently featured on NYT for his unique contribution of coming up with Husk power system for transforming rural power generation. Husk Power Systems won first place in 2008 in the University of Virginia business [...]
Bihar’s Transformation Journey
June 27, 2008 in Bihar 2.0, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, BPO, Development Projects in Bihar, Drishtee, Gaya, Grassroot Innovation, IIM, IIT-JEE, Patwatoli, Social Entrepreneurs, Video
Bihar is witnessing a slow and steady transformation these days and the heroes of this journey are its often ignored human capital. We have so many success stories today which have been path breaking and also been augmenting incremental change in the social landscape of Bihar. These stories are definite signs of Bihar’s turnaround story. [...]
Community Radio Project in Bihar Schools
March 20, 2008 in Bihar 2.0, Bihar Economic Development, Community Radio, Development Projects in Bihar, Social Entrepreneurs
The community radio project in Bihar is all set to get started. Schools will soon double up as broadcasting stations in Bihar where the government has proposed a community radio project for which 11 high schools of Patna and Nalanda have been selected. The aim is to disseminate information on government and other socially useful [...]
About The Author
Ajit is a prominent photographer & blogger with distinct recognitions to his credit. His photographs has been published on various world photography journals. His blog HR Funda is featured amongst the Career 100 - a list of the top 100 career related blogs globally.His Cool Bihari blog is one of the first Bihar related blog and has also built a small community of passionate Biharis.
- Patna Airport and The Juggernaut of Bihar’s economic development June 11, 2010
- Durga Puja in Bihar October 1, 2006
- Bhojpuri Movies on Roll January 30, 2006
- Gauravshali Bihar Book and I am Bihar T-Shirt February 1, 2007
- Cycle Rickshaw Project-Samman February 11, 2007
- The Boy from Siwan.. July 21, 2007
- German MNC in Bihar August 28, 2007
- ET Business Reformer - Nitish Kumar August 25, 2009
- Management Institute at Patna - A dream becomes reality March 10, 2008
- Bhojpuri Music July 5, 2008
Tourism
- Mahabodhi Temple - Blissful Bihar
- The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin
- Bodh Gaya: Center of the Buddhist World
- Bihar’s Growth Story : The Road Ahead
- Cruise along Ganges river @ Patna Floating restaurant
- Revisiting Bihar
- Bihar has turned the corner
- Kapil’s Eleven in Patna
- Bihar on roller coaster
- Branding Bihar