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TEA GARDEN WORKERS ARE NOW ENTREPRENEURS
A tea garden worker until eight years ago, 48-years-old Matang Tanglua is today among over 5,500 entrepreneurs who won small tea estates of their own, making meaningful contributions to Tripura that emerging as a significant exporter of the commodity.
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DIGITAL VILLAGE PROJECT ; GOVERNANCE AT DOOR STEP
Manas Paul, Gauri Sarkar, Abinash Das ... all are excited. From their doorstep they will soon be able to get any government certificate and permit within a minimum time and will also be able to file complaint with the police ... thanks to the government’s Rs.20,000 crore “digital village†project that will eventually cover all the 250,000 gram panchayats across India in a phase manner.
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RUBBER FARMING : TRANSFORMING LIFE OF POOR
Until 1999, Bipin Chandra Debbarma was a poor nomad. Now the 75-year-old tribal villager at Bishramganj in western Tripura lives in a concrete house, drives a car and has all the costly household gadgets. This incredible transformation in his and his family members’ lifestyle in a span of 13 years has been possible because of the natural rubber cultivation he has been engaged at his Bishramganj village under Sipahijala district and just 40 km west of Tripura capital Agartala.
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BAMBOO : THE ‘GREEN GOLD’ OF LIFE
In North East India’s region, when a new baby is born, to cut his or her umbilical cord a bamboo made knife is used. When a man or woman grows up, bamboo is used in diverse stages of his or her whole life. When people die, bamboo is used to light the funeral pyre. Thus bamboo is an integral part of life in this region and also in many other parts of the world.
