Anirban Nandi and Paulami Nandi – PhD Scholars IIT Kharagpur in rural development has declined a proposal to pursue post-doctoral studies in the United States to help children in north Bengal villages access better education. The husband-wife duo have created a mobile library that helps students stay in touch with the latest books as well as provide complementary classes.
This mobile library contains textbooks for children; Most of them have been collected from the urban households of Siliguri, while others have been bought by both. This mobile van library currently houses more than 5,200 books.
Anirban and his wife Poulami take this van to 30 villages in North Bengal.
They provide study books to the children of the village and renew these books every three months.
Not only books, but the mobile library also provides tuition to the village children for Rs.10. From spoken English to computers, the couple teaches various courses to children living in the villages of North Bengal.
Anirban’s father was a farmer and his mother was a nurse, he was always interested in working for the village.
While doing research at IIT Kharagpur on rural development, he explored various problems faced by the villagers. Poulami was his research assistant at the time. Eventually both got married.
Talking to News18 Anirban said, “Mobile libraries connect with people, we need to empower more people. We got the opportunity to live out of India and do post-doctorate but seeing the smiles on the faces of the women and children of the village; Empowering them makes us happy. The theory that we had to promulgate from the AC room, we are now doing it from these village houses, it is our satisfaction.
The villages of Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Alipurduar are mostly actually garden villages. Anirban and Poulami’s organization ‘live life happily’ trains and empowers village mothers. Now she has more than 8000 women in her team who work as Self Help Groups.
Speaking to News18, Poulami said, “I think we have a different level of satisfaction we can’t get anywhere else. We are working together on personal and social development, that’s great. “
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