Nainital’s Ghoda Library: Changing lives in distant areas

Express News Service

DEHRADUN: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about Nainital’s ‘Ghoda Library’ within the a hundred and fifth episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ collection on Sunday, its innovator Shubham Badhani has determined to increase his distinctive schooling marketing campaign so that individuals in rural areas and kids disadvantaged of progressive data in distant rural areas can take full benefit of it.

Speaking to this day by day proper after the completion of the Mann Ki Baat programme on TV, Shubham, overwhelmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s encouraging phrases, stated, “The idea of opening this mobile “Ghoda library” got here to our thoughts given the opposed geographical situations and troublesome connectivity routes of the state”.  

“Horses, which can work smoothly in these difficult areas, we have used them for this purpose,” Shubham added.

“Diwan Singh Rawat, a farmer from Jalna village, has given us his horse after being impressed by this campaign for this ‘Mobile horse library’ that started on June 12 this year,” stated Badhani, including, “When the information of this ‘Ghoda library’ experiment unfold to close by villages, we received an awesome response, because of which at the moment we now have 10 horses offered by varied volunteers from totally different villages.

Badhani stated, “Since the library is mobile, at one round we issue books to the children and on the next round we take back the old books after a week and re-issue the new books.”  

“So far the entire network of ‘horse libraries’ has been built in villages like Bagni, Jalna, Gountiya, Dhinwa-khadak, Mahatgaon, Dola, Mahal dhura, Kalsee and Talla Jalna”.

“People in urban areas anyway had easy access to information through TV and huge libraries or workshops and instructors to enhance their knowledge, but, for rural children, getting their hands on a random book somewhere, would open a new window to the world outside their small locality,” Shubham believes. 

Expressing concern over the schooling of kids in Uttarakhand, Shubham stated, “The largest concern is that there are nonetheless a whole bunch of distant villages which aren’t related to the web or social media. There are nonetheless thousands and thousands of kids who’re wanting to study in regards to the outdoors world and getting an opportunity to learn the guide is sort of a dream come true.”

DEHRADUN: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about Nainital’s ‘Ghoda Library’ within the a hundred and fifth episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ collection on Sunday, its innovator Shubham Badhani has determined to increase his distinctive schooling marketing campaign so that individuals in rural areas and kids disadvantaged of progressive data in distant rural areas can take full benefit of it.

Speaking to this day by day proper after the completion of the Mann Ki Baat programme on TV, Shubham, overwhelmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s encouraging phrases, stated, “The idea of opening this mobile “Ghoda library” got here to our thoughts given the opposed geographical situations and troublesome connectivity routes of the state”.  

“Horses, which can work smoothly in these difficult areas, we have used them for this purpose,” Shubham added.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Diwan Singh Rawat, a farmer from Jalna village, has given us his horse after being impressed by this campaign for this ‘Mobile horse library’ that started on June 12 this year,” stated Badhani, including, “When the information of this ‘Ghoda library’ experiment unfold to close by villages, we received an awesome response, because of which at the moment we now have 10 horses offered by varied volunteers from totally different villages.

Badhani stated, “Since the library is mobile, at one round we issue books to the children and on the next round we take back the old books after a week and re-issue the new books.”  

“So far the entire network of ‘horse libraries’ has been built in villages like Bagni, Jalna, Gountiya, Dhinwa-khadak, Mahatgaon, Dola, Mahal dhura, Kalsee and Talla Jalna”.

“People in urban areas anyway had easy access to information through TV and huge libraries or workshops and instructors to enhance their knowledge, but, for rural children, getting their hands on a random book somewhere, would open a new window to the world outside their small locality,” Shubham believes. 

Expressing concern over the schooling of kids in Uttarakhand, Shubham stated, “The largest concern is that there are nonetheless a whole bunch of distant villages which aren’t related to the web or social media. There are nonetheless thousands and thousands of kids who’re wanting to study in regards to the outdoors world and getting an opportunity to learn the guide is sort of a dream come true.”