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Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

December 18, 2010 in Bihar Economic Development, Development Projects in Bihar, Entrepreneurship, Grassroot Innovation, Green Initiative, Husk Power

For a State growing at around 10% per annum, Bihar’s power requirement is expected to be around 8000 mega watts in the in next 5 years. Bihar has a power generation capacity of 584MW compared with a demand of around 2500MW. The deficit is made up by accessing the central pool quota of 1,200MW, of […]

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Agricultural Innovation in Rural Bihar

October 17, 2010 in Agri Business, Agricultural Innovation, Grassroot Innovation, Rural Development, Social Entrepreneurs

Bihar has seen significant growth in the area of infrastructure and related dimensions of economic development in the last few years. Bihar has around 60% of its workforce sustaining livelihood through agricultural sector and 42% of the State Domestic Product comes from agricultue. It clearly indicates that without agricultural development, growth will remain on periphery […]

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Bihar’s Super 30 gets International Recognition

September 19, 2010 in Anand Kumar, Education in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, IIT-JEE, IIT-JEE Topper, Patna, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Service, Super 30, Super 30 Video, Wonders of Bihar

Bihar’s Super 30 has added another laurel to its credit. Recently Super 30 was featured by Time magazine in the list of the “Best of Asia 2010“, now Newsweek in its latest edition included Super 30 in the list of four most innovative schools in the world. Newsweek quotes “For years now the path to […]

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Green Initiative

June 7, 2010 in Development Projects in Bihar, Environmental Science, Grassroot Innovation, Green Initiative, Social Entrepreneurs

On the eve of world’s environment day, it’s heartening to see encouraging green initiatives in Bihar. Civil Servent SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar. BBC reports “His campaign to encourage people to plant trees effectively addresses two burning issues […]

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Abhivyakti 2010 - Bihar Film Festival

May 1, 2010 in Abhivyakti, Bihar Film Festival, Cultural Program, Grassroot Innovation

The longest running low cost film festival in Bihar, started as ‘All Bihar VHS videofest’ in 1995 is held every two years to encourage the use of audio-visual media as a tool of holistic development, democratic values and freedom of expression. A three day festival of the alternative kick starts on Friday 30 April, as […]

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Social Innovation Matters

February 7, 2010 in Cycle Rickshaw Project- Samman, E-Governance in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, Jankari, Social Entrepreneurs

If someone ever felt short of ideas and inspiration, one just needs to looks at the fabulous innovations which have taken place in Bihar over the last few years. Always lambasted for it’s under utilization of its natural resources, recent idea rich innovations have given momentum to grass root innovations. This has been the most […]

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Global recognition for Bihar’s Husk Power Project

July 14, 2009 in Bihari Newsmakers, Development Projects in Bihar, Grassroot Innovation, Husk Power, Newsmaker from Bihar, Social Entrepreneurs

In one of my earlier post I had mentioned about the classic example of grass root innovation by Manoj Sinha who was featured on NYT for his unique contribution of coming up with Husk power system for transforming rural power generation. Husk Power Systems won first place in 2008 in the University of Virginia business […]

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Power Generation for Rural Bihar

January 3, 2009 in Bihar 2.0, Bihar Economic Development, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, Grassroot Innovation, Social Entrepreneurs

Grass root innovation is gaining considerable momentum in Bihar. We have yet another success story of Manoj Sinha who has been recently featured on NYT for his unique contribution of coming up with Husk power system for transforming rural power generation. Husk Power Systems won first place in 2008 in the University of Virginia business […]

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Bihar’s Transformation Journey

June 27, 2008 in Bihar 2.0, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, BPO, Development Projects in Bihar, Drishtee, Gaya, Grassroot Innovation, IIM, IIT-JEE, Patwatoli, Social Entrepreneurs, Video

Bihar is witnessing a slow and steady transformation these days and the heroes of this journey are its often ignored human capital. We have so many success stories today which have been path breaking and also been augmenting incremental change in the social landscape of Bihar. These stories are definite signs of Bihar’s turnaround story. […]

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Innovation in Bihar’s Agricultural Sector

March 15, 2008 in Agri Business, Bihar Economic Development, Grassroot Innovation

Bihar’s economy is primarily agriculture based and it’s encouraging to see the innovative practices which farmers in Bihar have been adopting over the year to generate various sources of revenue. Traditionally our fertile land has been the major source of revenue and livelihood for the agrarian society in the villages. However over the years floods […]

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