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enajori.com
Enajori.com is the first online monthly bilingual magazine from Assam, launched inMarch, 2010, which has asserted itself to one of the most popular websites of the regionwith monthly average hits of 1.5 lakh readers. The aim of the project is to showcaseAssam’s rich and diverse culture represented through its various ethnicities as well asdiversity in language and religion. The online portal delivers a full database of Assam.Through the world of internet,the online magazine covers topics such as theAssamesegolden era of music, cinema and literature along with current issues of interest related to modern writings, wildlife and tourism.The vision of this website is to create a singleplatform wherein the entire population ofAssam, in its entire cultural and artistic splendor, is presented in a humble attempt to put Assam’s rich culture and heritage on the world map. Read more >>

Website : www.enajori.com

Amader Kishorgonj
This project has been launched with the goal to retrieve hidden historical and culturalinformation from the Haor Area, a wetland ecosystem in the North Eastern part ofBangladesh. In a country where one third of all area can be termed as wetlands, theHaor basin nevertheless stands out as an internationally important wetland ecosystem, which is situated in Sunamganj, Habiganj and Moulvibazar districts. It is a mosaic of wetland habitat, including rivers, streams and irrigation canals and large areas of seasonally flooded cultivated plains. Through the web based application kishorgonj.com a huge amount of information has been collected about a natural habitat on the edge of extinction. Read more >>

Website : www.kishorgonj.com

The Interactive Museum
The museums in India are losing popularity among children, students and tourists due to the passive, restrictive, non-informative and uninteresting presentation of exhibits.The museum officials observed that visitors quickly pass through the galleries without learning much about the Indian cultural heritage and history. To change the situation the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum in 2011 introduced the use of touch screen based interactive features to overcome the restrictions in the museums for the visitors to virtually handle, play, visualize, engage and learn from the interactive museum. Read more >>

Website : www.hcdc.cdac.in

NIOS Online
The institution for Open Distance Learning is using ICT as a major strategy towards reaching the unreached and providing the quality support to NIOS learners especially to people with a disability. The NIOS Online project has brought convenience to its learners and introduced user friendliness into the basic operations of NIOS in the area of admission, examination and accreditation and enhanced the quality of the support services to its learners. The NIOS has its own web portal www.nios.ac.in for dissemination of information and for providing online citizen centric services as a major initiative of good governance. The admission process in NIOS is 100% online due to which the content of the NIOS website is designed learner friendly, simple and accessible. Read more >>

Website : www.nios.ac.in

CLT e-Patashale
The CLT e-Patashale Live online initiative was launched in January 2011 and provides teaching to rural schools without access to qualified teachers, especially those to teach science, for example math or English. The programs objective aims at acknowledging the fact that children in remote villages are excluded from access to high quality teaching due to the lack of qualified teachers in the majority of rural government schools. The program uses technology to substitute the real presence of teachers and connect qualified personal from the CLT Hub to many remote classrooms simultaneously. Since, these are live teaching sessions, as opposed to broadcast, the teachers can address problems in real time situations.The content used is localized,to map the learning styles of rural children, cost-effective, scalable and replicable. Read more >>

Website : www.cltindia.org

BijliBachao
BijliBachao is the outcome of a need to learn and spread the importance of saving electricity to veryone who uses it. It is well known that in our country the supply of electricity doesn’t match with itsdemand.Coupled with this is the problem of CO2 emission and climate change associated with electricity generation.On the other hand rising electricity bills are becoming a matter of concern for many Indian households. Efficient use of electricity offers a win-win solution to both the issues. BijliBachao has been started with the vision of empowering consumers with useful information and tools to helpthem understand their electricity consumption and learn ways to reduce the same.Theidea essentially is to make energy efficiency ‘a cool product’. Read more >>

Website : www.bijlibachao.in

Inclusive Growth with Financial Inclusion and Livelihood
AISECT has partnered with the Government for setting up 2926 Common Service Centers (CSCs) in Madhya Pradesh, 1487 in Chhattisgarh and 585 CSCs in Punjab as banking services increasinglybecomeing a basic social and economic necessity,AISECT currently works as a Business Facilitator (BF) as well as a National Business Correspondent (BC) for State Bank of India. Under the Financial Inclusion Scheme,AISECT is extending hassle-free savings, loan facilities and other banking services at an affordable cost to the under privileged and unbanked population. The twin objective is to ensure greater financial inclusion and increasing the outreach of the bank combined with the need tosubstantially increase the market share in the rural and semi urban areas. Read more >>

Website : www.aisect.org

Rural Shores Business Services
Rural Shores Business Services is a rural-focused socio-commercial initiative inaugurated in June 2008 dedicated to creating employment in villages all over India through its mission of establishing Rural Business Process Outsourcing (Rural BPOs) centers.The central vision of the program is to take employment to the people to reduce livelihood induced migration from rural areas to cities.The educated youth in rural India have few job opportunities in their places of origin and often have to leave their families behind to migrate to the cities in the hope of making a decent living. However in many cases they are not able to fit into the city culture and are hardly able to make ends meet. Read more >>

Website : www.ruralshores.com

Naukri SMS
NaukriSMS started in May 2009 aiming at the development of skills to ensure sustainable livelihood option. It supplies unskilled workers from the unorganized sector with voice and text based information on employment and corresponding skill training possibilities. The mobile and internet facilitated IP technology using Live Connect allows the registering, searching and connecting of employers and employees for the sake of mutual benefit. The central objective of the initiative is to bridge the digital divide since most of the workers are semi-literate and find it difficult to read newspaper to find out about available job options, suitable employers or skill training. In addition they are not well networked and traveling in search for employment is expensive and time consuming. Read more >>

Website : www.naukrisms.in

Oxigen Services (P) Ltd
Oxigen aims to be an instrument of financial inclusion for people operating at the bottom of the pyramid in India. The key vision is to touch lives through innovative technologies and alliances at the bottom of the customer pyramid through the delivery of business and financial services through a cost efficient platform comprising of Mobile,Web and POS delivery. Oxygen’s objective is also to be a market leader in providing efficient recharge service to customers and seeks to deliver next generation services to consumers in rural and urban areas, by offering compelling business opportunities for entrepreneurs across all segments. Read more >>

Website : www.myoxigen.com

Saral Rozgar
SaralRozgar is a mobile service which seamlessly connects skilled and semi skilled professionals to jobs of their choice. SaralRozgar tries to create an organized market place for the blue-collared labor segment, such as drivers.The initiative presents a complete end to end ecosystem with the goal to bring all stakeholders on one platform involving job seekers and providers, agencies, NGOs and direct selling agents. Using SaralRozgar, especially illiterate and technology deprived employment seekers will be supplied with support for the creation of resumes to apply for jobs using their mobiles. Conversely, registered employers will be able to browse through the candidates on theWeb, select the matching candidates and contact them directly through automated channels. Read more >>

Website : http://www.saralrozgar.com/

 
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