In 2015, the success of Chanderiyaan encouraged several CSR groups to adopt handloom clusters in partnership with DEF. Located 340 kilometres north-west of Bhubaneswar, Barpali is a densely populated block in Bargarh district of Odisha. In Barpali, there are more than 2,000 handlooms spread across several pockets of clusters, each at a distance of five…
Digital Empowerment Foundation, with the support of Chanderiyaan introduced the first ever Internet Wi-Fi service in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh to connect the communities and assist easy navigation for tourists of Chanderi. This initiative not only attracted the tourists, who visit Chanderi round the year, but also evolved as a new trend among the local internet…
Nichalagarh is an amazing place located in the foothills of Mount Abu. It consists of many hamlets and is a part of Abu Road tehsil of Sirohi district in Rajasthan. If one looks up for Nichalagarh on a search engine, they will come to know that it is the same Nichalagarh that was in the…
Every morning at 7 am, about 40,000-60,000 people in and around the village of Tilonia in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, turn on their radio transistors and tune into 90.4 FM to listen to Norat Mal and Aarti Devi’s broadcast. Tilonia is a small village, with a population of about 7,500, located north east of Ajmer,…
