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In the village of Manvat, in Maharashtra's Parbhani district, the local youth generated a computerized database of unemployed persons eligible for the central government's Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and communicated through the Internet with the administration. This two-way flow of information brought the area around Rs.70 lakhs worth of development investment in agriculture, water works, and sanitation, employing 4000 persons from 22 villages around Manvat.
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In Nitrud, in Beed district, villagers collected 4 lakh litres of water through a simple percolation technology after applying Jal Chitra's software (see box) for water mapping and auditing that identified key shortages and possible solutions to meet the demand.
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In Rodpali, in Raigarh district, villagers' land was acquired by the government during the development of New Bombay. The village youth prepared a computerized database on their educational background and negotiated placement of 21 young persons in the company that came up on the land they once tilled.
As estimated by the World Health Organisation, there are 38 million blind and 110 million people with low vision all over the world, and this large chunk of society is unable to gain from the mammoth information explosion that has revolutionised our way of living - all because of lack of availability of technology and appropriate adaptation to their special needs.
Illiterate
1,182,160,000
Internet users per thousand
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Updated on May 23, 09
Created on Apr 28, 09
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