Surojana Devi | SKOCH Challenger Award - Honest Independent Civilian Honour

Surojana Devi: Rural Delivery Systems

Surojana Devi
Prof Surojana Devi, IIT-Madras receiving the Skoch Challenger Award for Rural Delivery Systems from Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

Surojana Devi: Rural Delivery Systems

Prof Surojana Devi has taken the benefit of wireless networking to the village India. Helping the local entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu and other parts of India to set up a village internet kiosk offering services like browsing, DTP, video-conferencing and e-mail; the kiosk also duplicates as a classroom teaching computers to the village children. There are more than 2000 such kiosks already operational. The entrepreneur is helped in her venture by banks like SBI with soft loans. The kiosks are also offering agri-clinics and veterinary services.

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