GUWAHATI: A group of research scholars from
IIT Guwahati have got together to set up rural libraries and community centres across the northeast in an attempt to develop the socio-cultural milieu of the region. They have already started off in some villages of the
Nalbari, Baksa and Karbi Anglong districts.
Bibhuti Ranjan Bhattacharjya, a research scholar at the
Centre for Rural Technology in IIT-Guwahati, said they are planning to start with at least 20 libraries in 10 villages. "We are planning to set up two libraries in each village," Bhattacharjya told TOI. An MoU has been signed with Food for Thought foundation for the programme.
The project was inaugurated at Raitkuchi village in Nalbari district by
AK Goswami, former principal of
Cotton College and president of Medini foundation, in September this year
