Laxmi Kumari
Village Kuran CIRC Kuran Laxmi is a small little girl from a tiny village Kuran, from Rajasthan. She is very sharp and always energetic. Though she is 7 years old, but physically she is very weak. At the age of…

Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) provide Kooran the basic backbone needed for rolling out all kinds of digital interventions for development. It is situated in tribal area of Bali block where CIRC Kuran helping the community with computers, printers, scanners and all basic digital equipment together with Internet connectivity. CIRC Kuran spreads digital literacy and empower hitherto information-dark and marginalized communities to access all possible benefits of digital inclusion and access to the global information super highway.

Empowering the community with digital tools and contents, Taking ahead the spirit of ‘Skill India’, CIRC across the country constantly endeavor to create a robust, computer literate workforce, besides improving enterperneurships. Computers have demonstrated great potentional in the catalyzing the overall skill development of youth as well as women in rural India. Capacity building activities, such as enhancing language and communication skills, behavioral and capacity building skills, management skills, etc are affectively carried out through online and offline platforms at CIRCs. This essentially includes programs that offer an elaborate curriculum through predesigned study modules, created with easy to understand content, often followed by tests conducted to evaluate student performances.

Facilitating information flow and management of public schemes for citizen empowerment and good governance in backward districts of India
Digital Empowerment Foundation launched Soochna Seva in collaboration with the European Union in January 2014 with an aim to spread awareness about existing public schemes, using ICT/non-ICT tools, among the deprived sections and enable them to derive benefits from the same. In addition to empowering the masses with information, Soochna Seva has set its focus on capacity building of the local communities, groups and citizens and advance cooperation between the stakeholders and local administration to develop an operative framework for public scheme information dissemination and entitlement.

Tata Trusts with Centre for Micro Finance (CMF) as the nodal agency in Rajasthan, have designed a five year (2015-2020) integrated multi-thematic project ‘Transformation Initiative’ (TI), which is currently being implemented in four blocks of South Rajasthan (Bali in Pali district, Abu Road & Pindwara in sirohi district and Sayra in Udaipur district) covering approx. 70,000 households and 350,000 population. The initiative seeks to demonstrate proof of concept of transformational change in the quality of life of community through integration of livelihoods, drinking water and sanitation, education and nutrition initiatives.
Village Kuran CIRC Kuran Laxmi is a small little girl from a tiny village Kuran, from Rajasthan. She is very sharp and always energetic. Though she is 7 years old, but physically she is very weak. At the age of…

With a past experience in networking and hardware engineering, Pankaj joined Digital. As a part of the CIRC project, Pankaj has been connecting with the grassroots by interacting with communities, understanding their needs and aspirations, and encouraging them to make digital a part of their lives.

With a postgraduate degree in social work, Suraj started work in 2016 as the Center Coordinator in the CIRC. Prior to joining the CIRC, Suraj worked as a master trainer for five years in a project of the Foundation for Education and Development called Doosra dashak. With his five years’ experience.

Working on the post of Master Trainer At CIRC. Before joining the DEF before working on e-Mitra for the first 3 years, have a working experience of 1 year food department and have worked in addition to 7-year part-time accountants. Starting September 1, 2016 started working as a master trainer at CIRC.