The Bihar Rural livelihoods Project or JEEViKA implemented by the Bihar Rural livelihoods Promotion Society (BRlPS) on Friday organised a road show here to interact with high impact social innovators from the city and surrounding regions for the second Bihar Innovation Forum.
The forum is a platform that aims to identify, celebrate and scale up rural livelihood innovations at the all-India level and apply them for enhancing livelihoods of 1.5 crore rural poor households in Bihar.
The forum focused on innovations under eight livelihood themes, including agriculture, livestock, financial services, rural energy, ICT-based solutions, skill development, non-farm sector, access to entitlements and services.
Senior officials from JEEViKA offered the innovators the prospect of working with one million rural households, 120 million dollar capital investment and last mile delivery through the support of 1,500 BRlPS staff and 12,000 trained community resource persons. The society asked the innovators to apply before May 28 last to take part in the event.
At the final event, 35 finalists across eight thematic areas would be showcased in Patna and 24 winners would be given cash prizes.
The road show had already been organised in five cities and attracted 25 innovators from the cities, said BRlPS State project coordinator Debaraj Behera, who coordinated the event here.