[India] Wired Villages of Warana

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from PROPOOR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER (8 April 2003)]

WIRED VILLAGES OF WARANA

Agrarian India re-packages its schedules, thanks to a silent IT 
revolution. Balu Jadhav owns less than a hectare of land, a buffalo 
and a cow. He used to worry incessantly about his son, who suffers 
from polio. Now Jadhav says he needn’t worry. An IT revolution has 
silently swept through 70 villages in Warana, Kolhapur district, 
Maharashtra. Jadhav has watched the $ 600,000 Warana Wired Village 
Project change everything in these villages where livelihoods centre 
around sugarcane farming and dairying. 
http://www.propoor.org/news/?n=114