This project is an initiative of Bihar Development trust.

Bihar Development Trust has partnered with MAKETICK Foundation, California, USA to fight for 2.5 million dollar sponsered by American Express. This amount will be given to most deserving ideas that makes a positive impact in the world. Our project name is ASHA – The Livelihood Programme for millions

The project has been categorised under economic development & microfinance subcategory within community development category.

According to Dr. Ravi who belongs to the “Bihar Development Trust”

“We believe that our goal to establish a platform that will facilitate to create sustainable livelihoods for these underprivileged artisans, particularly rural and women artisans and thereby, improve their economic and living conditions is the most deserving one. The artisans are organized as self help groups; provided with orders and designs to fulfill the order and given credit to purchase raw materials. The production goes through a QA cycle. The artisans will be federated at the district level and organized as Producer Company.”

The project is already working with the weavers of Bhagalpur, Bihar.

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About ASHA – The Livelihood Programme for millions the project submitted by Bihar Development Trust

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PATNA: Famous as maths wizard Anand Kumar who once sold ‘papad’ on the streets to eke out a living is a happy man today with all the 30 aspirants of IIT-JEE from his coaching institute, Super 30, making it to premier IITs.
Kumar, who runs the coaching institute with Additional Director General of Police Abhayanand, set it up in 2003 for providing free coaching and boarding to students from economically weak backgrounds.
The number of students from the institute who made it to the IIT rose from 18 in 2003 to 22 in 2004, 26 in 2005, 28 each in 2006 and 2007 to 30 aspirants this year.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar congratulated the students of Super 30 and also Sithikant, a student of St Michael’s High School in Patna, who topped the All India Merit List for IIT-JEE this year.

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