It was really a proud moment for Kiran Kumari who was felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday during the inaugural function of Digital India Week.Kiran, who runs a Pragya Kendra (Common Service Centre) at Bogdo panchayat under Dhanwar block in Giridih, was also gifted a laptop along with a certificate by the Prime Minister to mark the occasion.
“Kiran was chosen for the honour for her extraordinary contribution in the field of computer literacy in her block under the programme digital literacy mission,” said State Anchor for CSC in Jharkhand Shiv Shambhu Prasad. In order to promote digital literacy in the Country, one CSC from each of the state was chosen for the felicitation programme, added Prasad.According to Prasad, Kiran along with her husband Pappu Kumar have done a commendable job in the field of digital literacy within a very short period of time.
“Kiran has the credit of opening over 1300 digital lockers for various persons in her panchayat and has also enrolled more than 20,000 individuals for UIDAI. She has also done an excellent work under e-nagrik seva which has now been changed to e-district service,” said Prasad.Similarly Kiran has already taught computers to 96 individuals in her panchayat under Digital literacy Mission which aims at making literate to at least one family member of each household in of every panchayat, added Prasad.
Kiran, an intermediate, has been successfully running a Pragya Kendra at her village Bogdo for the last several years. “She has also been running a training center for the children by installing five computers at her home,” said a CSC activist Anupam Upadhyaya.Kiran and her husband, basically belonging to a poor family, have now become financially stable; she has also provided employment to at least 8 youths who assist Kiran and her husband to run the centre, Updhyaya added.
Presently, Kiran has been providing services in the field of e-district, National Digital literacy Mission, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, Tele-medicine, PAN and Adhaar Card printing at very reasonable rates.Remarkably, Kiran’s journey to Delhi from Giridih was a critical one where they met with an accident and missed their flight in Ranchi. Despite her husband getting his hand fractured in the accident, they did not lose heart and again went to Patna via road to catch another flight on Wednesday finally managing to reach Delhi a few hours before the programme started.Though, Kiran could not be contacted, officials who met her in Delhi after the felicitation programme said that she was looking quite energetic and enthusiastic and was now planning to add more services to her service list for the villagers in the field of digital literacy.