Village Jaankar

If India has to become a developed nation, India's villages must be developed.
Development of villages need empowered villagers.

Our idea of a Village Jaankar is an empowerment citizen in each village, who will further empower the villagers. To ensure that one citizen does not become the sole owner of knowledge, we are planning to have two to three village jaankars in each village, typically representing multiple stakeholders like teachers, SHG leaders and panchayat leader.

These Village Jaankars would be the gateway of information to the villages and would also be the windows of the villages to the outside world. Multiple stakeholders can use the VJs in different ways. e.g. an NRI may like to request the VJ to send her / him the photograph of their village school or they may request the VJ to identify beneficieries they would like to support. Governments and Corporates may like the VJ to be contact person for the villages and so would be the research agencies and media.

While we are looking at multiples of 638387 VJs who would be village people, we are also looking at 638387 VJs who are Non Resident Villagers who are from villages but are now staying in cities.

Simultaneously, we are looking at 638387 VJs who are NRIs from different villages.

The whole idea is to create a network of individuals who have interest in specific villages.

638387.org is working with enlightened citizens to form the role of the different VJs and this will be spelt out soon.

In the meantime, if you would like to become a VJ of any of the above categories, send a mail to Sangeeta@IndianNGOs.com

If you have an opinion about the role of the VJ, send a mail to Sanjay@IndianNGOs.com

August 05, 2008