Story of a carpenter driven by his passion to become digitally literate
Sixty year old Nambiyar Khan is a native of Saidanpur village in district Barabanki of Uttar Pradesh. A watchman by profession, he also has a penchant for singing. He has been entertaining people of the community which his sweet voice. One day, staff of baank-e-loom (CIRC) Saidanpur, during one of the community walks, noticed him singing. They asked him that why he doesn’t consider uploading his videos on YouTube, to which Nambiyar told them that he didn’t have any knowledge of computers. And so, he was invited to the centre the next day to get himself enrolled in the Basic Digital Literacy Course. Soon he learnt to work on various computer applications with confidence. His interest lies in music and YouTube videos. The centre is helping Nambiyar to record his video and upload on YouTube so that soon the world would be able to hear his voice.
