Place · Gurugram, Haryana
Museo Camera
A museum of photography in Gurugram with a collection of more than 8,000 cameras dating from after 1860.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Mann Ki Baat · 28 May 2023
Episode 101
Episode 101 featured a camera museum and an online memory archive, a start-up making paper from water hyacinth, young water savers in Balod, check dams in Khunti, and an ex-serviceman who revived a farm cooperative.
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Group
Indian Memory Project
An online museum, started in 2010, that pieces together India's history through family photographs and stories sent in from around the world.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group
KumbhiKagaz
A start-up that makes paper from water hyacinth, a weed that clogs rivers and lakes, turning a problem for water bodies into a raw material.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Balod, Chhattisgarh
Youth of Balod
Young people in Balod district who go door to door, and even to weddings, to teach people how to save water and stop wasting it.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Khunti, Jharkhand
Check dams of Khunti
Villagers in Khunti district have built check dams to store water, so that they can now grow vegetables and greens, raising their incomes.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Nashik, Maharashtra
Shivaji Shamrao Dole
A former soldier from a poor tribal farming family who studied agriculture after retiring. With a team including other ex-servicemen, he revived a dormant cooperative that now has about 18,000 members in Maharashtra and Karnataka, farms more than 500 acres in Malegaon, builds ponds, and exports grapes to Europe.
As described in Mann Ki Baat