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LinkEighteen kilometres from the nearest town of Valsad in south Gujarat sits Tighara, a village where locals communicate in real time with their relatives living on the other side of the world. Welcome to Gujarat’s first Wi-Fi village.
A few months ago, Tighara locals settled in Panama, London and Atlanta came home with their software and electronics expertise, organised a meeting with the youths of the village and set up a Wi-Fi system so they could easily talk to their family members back home.
Being professional techies, the NRI youths had brought along routers and special cameras and fixed it on the village streets.
“Our attempt was to bring those who are staying abroad closer to the village. We have installed around six cameras at different locations and they are connected with well-developed servers. We have also used local landline phones,” said Tejas Patel, a software engineer who lives in central London and is currently home on vacation.
There are laptops, computers in many of the houses here, explained Patel, adding the system was started just a few weeks ago.
The Wi-Fi service is welcome to Gujarat’s first Wi-Fi village, no thanks to govt available at nominal charges: 10 GB to 15 GB usage at only Rs. 300 per month or Rs. 7,000 per year. The charges taken from the villagers will be used to give more facility to the villagers, adds Tejas Patel.
The service has no doubt been delightful, especially for the old villagers.
“My son Deepak is in Atlanta now and we often see each other and chat online. Using a webcam, Deepak had seen our repainted house and new furniture and even his bedroom, which we have kept as it is since his memories are attached to it. During the festivals and marriage functions, Deepak could see the entire functions through cameras attached at various places,” said Bhagu Patel, a farmer.
“We have also started medical facility like a health centre wherein poor villagers are getting medicines for Rs. 5. We have not taken help from any of the government schemes. Everything has been done by villagers,” he said, adding the neighbouring villagers are keen to copy Tighara.
Congress party loots people's money using these schemes, helping the poor is presented as the objective so anybody opposing these schemes can be dubbed anti-poor and attacked. Congress will divert this money to its party funds and the status of poor will remain unchanged. Congress ka Haath, Aapki jeb kaatein ko tyaarNarayana Rao wrote:call me facist why we need food security ? Why not do something more constructive with the same money liek improving agri infra or make sound food policy which alone will make food avliable to all people.
Question : So what is the commonality between these 3 states?joshvajohn wrote:Ragavendra I cannot disagree with you in someways as the corruptive fellows make use of such systems and so abuse the whole programme in the name of the poverty. But you must see Gujarat, TN and Kerala who are reforming the systems to many extent though the corruptions are still out there.
More laws wont change the corrupt nature of congress party. There is a Prevention of Corruption Act which should have been used by now to prosecute Manmohan singh, Sonia Gandhi, Nachiket Kapur for bribing MP's to vote for them. Has that law been used? You know the answer.joshvajohn wrote:We need to strongly recommend Lokpal bill. Also we need movements at grassroots to educate and work against the corruption regimes as well as the officialdoms.
Some people dont have shame like manmohan who says corruption in 2G scam is like charity.joshvajohn wrote:Exposing is the best way to shame and bring these guys down. It is sad that even the supreme court judges (past) seem to have made money from their jobs though many of us believed that it was the only system that was uncorrupt.
No you are wrong, congress party is the source of most of the corruption, Even you agreed about non-congress parties governed states being better at delivering services to the poor and fighting corruption.joshvajohn wrote:Raghavendra
While I agree your concern for corruption in general, I think, you are too focussed on blaming Congress alone. All the politicos in India are corrupted. I do not think there is a special exception to any party.
All this is good to hear but wont happen, people fighting corruption are burnt alive by congress, see the sonawane case or the murder of RTI activist satish shetty. You are only putting people in danger with this bhashanbaazi.joshvajohn wrote:A culture of hating corruption as a religious movement from all faith groups and also from other social reforming movements should spread and influence our society.
When current laws are not being used to punish the corrupt, how will the proposed new law solve the problem of rampant corruption in public distribution system? joshvajohn wrote:If MMS cannot get this bill passed he should be replaced by someoneelse in Congress who would have courage to bring change in our country.
Yes duffer gandhi has enough courage, give him a chance to loot people. His mother has shown her courage by stashing millions in her swiss bank accounts while acting like a martyr shunning power while using her puppet PM to hide her criminal deeds.Take it one step further. The people are corrupted too. They will say any lie for Rs 10. More educated may demand Rs 100 but will also say what you want. Verily Kaliyug.joshvajohn wrote:All the politicos in India are corrupted..
RamaY-ji, why dont you read the full text?RamaY wrote:^
So the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council comes out with a criteria to offer food security based on caste/tribe. Awesome. Combine this with converted Dalits should get SC/ST recognition we have a wonderful scheme to make India a super power.
The caste-based identification is a second filter, the first filter is pretty unexceptionable...The NAC had suggested inclusion of particularly vulnerable tribal groups' (PTGs), the Maha dalit groups, households headed by single women or disabled person or a minor, destitute households which are dependent predominantly on alms for survival, homeless and bonded labourers in the priority group. "After the inclusion of these categories, the highest priority should be given to the inclusion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the identification of "Priority groups" under the National Food Security Bill
United Nations: There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.
For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress. But she is sarpanch of Soda village, 60 kilometres from Jaipur, in backward Rajasthan and the changing face of growing dynamic rural India.
30-year-old Rajawat, India's youngest and the only MBA to become a village head -- the position mostly occupied by elders, quit her senior management position with Bharti-Tele Ventures of Airtel Group to serve her beloved villagers as sarpanch.
Rajawat participated in a panel discussion at the two-day meet at the UN on March 24 and 25 on how civil society can implement its actions and spoke on the role of civil society in fighting poverty and promoting development.
It is necessary to re-think through various strategies of action that includes new technologies like e-services in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in an era where resources have become limited, she told the delegates of the international conference.
"If India continues to make progress at the same pace as it has for the past 65 years since independence, it just won't be good enough. We'll be failing people who dream about having water, electricity, toilets, schools and jobs. I am convinced we can do it differently and do it faster.
"In the past year alone, I and the villagers in Soda have brought about a radical change in the village purely through our own efforts. We have had no outside support - no NGO help, no public, nor private sector help," she said.
On achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Rajawat said she sought full support from outside agencies and the corporate world. "I thank United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) which had deputed its senior adviser in India Mr Babu Lal Jain to visit Soda and extend all support in the opening of the first bank in the village. That made all the difference."
"In three years I will transform my village. I don't want money. I want people and organisations to adopt projects in my village as often projects fail owing to lack of a local connect and that is what I am here to provide by bridging that gap.
"I want the conference to help bring about faster change so that this generation can enjoy that kind of life that I - and you in this audience - take for granted," she said to thunderous cheers from the delegates.
one middle finger to the Gandhis on this.joshvajohn wrote:Govt looking at Guest Control Order to avoid ‘ostentatious behaviour'
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EGoM undecided on food safety bill, import of wheat; to consult PM, SoniaLast month, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had said the government should allow exports of wheat and rice as the country had huge stocks of grain and global prices were favourable. But officials said the EGoM has decided to wait one month, until the end of the current wheat procurement season, before taking a call on exports.