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21491. जहां नहीं पहुंच पाता इंटरनेट, वहां इस शिक्षक ने पूरे गाँव को ही बना दिया स्कूल
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- शहरों में ऑनलाइन क्लासेज के माध्यम से बच्चे फिर भी पढ़ाई कर पाने में सक्षम हैं। लेकिन देश के दूर-दराज़ और विशेषकर पहाड़ी क्षेत्रों के रहने वाले बच्चों को यह सुविधा बहुत अधिक नहीं मिल पा रही प्रतिदिन अल्मोड़ा शहर से 35 किलोमीटर की दूरी तय करके चनोली गाँव के एक जूनियर स्कूल में पढ़ाने आया करते थे।
- मास्क, दवा और स्वच्छता जैसी जरूरी सुविधाओं के साथ, कल्याण मनकोटी ने महामारी के दौरान छात्रों को उचित शिक्षा उपलब्ध कराने के लिए अपनी यात्रा शुरू की। उन्होंने बच्चों के एक छोटे समूह के साथ जंगल के पास, एक खेत में सीखने, पढ़ने और समझने की कवायद शुरू की।
- भोजन माता, समुदाय के सदस्यों और शिक्षकों के सहयोग से बच्चों के लिए दोपहर के भोजन की व्यवस्था की जाती है, हर घर में अनाज और सब्जियां देते हैं। यह “सबका साथ सबका विकास” का एक जीवंत मॉडल बन चुका है
21492. [Startup Bharat] How two college students built a profitable home service business based in Jaipur
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- The Jaipur-based startup is a ‘service at home’ company that provides trained service professionals for various needs at home. At present, the startup is serving eight cities, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Surat, Jaipur, Indore, Kota, and Sawai Madhopur.
- NamasteSir takes bookings on its consumer app ‘NamasteSir: Your Service Partner’, which then assigns these orders manually to its registered partners. However, it is developing a partner app ‘Sir Partner’, which will allow partners to accept bookings directly from the nearest customers.
- NamasteSir offers safe, hygienic, and affordable professional services such as party decorations at home, online pandit, mehndi artists, hourly/monthly car drivers, appliances repairers, electricians, plumbers, etc. It is planning to introduce more services in the coming months.
21493. [Startup Bharat] Jaipur-based VideoMeet has built an ‘aatmanirbhar’ Zoom alternative
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- Bootstrapped startup VideoMeet is riding on the central government’s push for local tech innovation. It has created a free Made-in-India video conferencing platform.
- In three months, VideoMeet has crossed 50,000 downloads on Google Play Store. It is also available on iOS and the web, with a majority of its users logging in via browsers. The platform clocks two lakh daily meeting minutes.
- Unlike many of its peers, VideoMeet lets users create personalised meeting rooms with unique IDs. Once created, users can log in and out of these rooms repeatedly as opposed to creating new meeting IDs for each event.
21494. This Delhi-based startup is making it easier and cheaper for e-rickshaw drivers to earn a livelihood
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- Founded in 2019 with a vision to impact 2.4 million livelihoods of the e-rickshaw community, Delhi-based electric mobility startup E-ChargeUp is aimed at providing quality charging infrastructure across the country, and create a network of battery swapping stations.
- The startup's batteries are lightweight – weighing less than 30 kg. It buys the batteries from a startup called Green Fuel.
- It also builds the software and the deploys it in the energy pods where the rickshaw owner pulls up and swaps the battery. The mechanism works similar to the platform provided by Sun Mobility.
21495. BharatPe aims to build a $100M loan book and its secret sauce is India’s 50 million SMBs
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- Delhi-based startup BharatPe, founded in March 2018 by Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani, which claims to have reached more than four million businesses with its QR codes, is well on the way to using its underwriting business to change the story of SMB owners in India.
- By April 2021, BharatPe expects to make more than $1 million in interest income while helping businesses be free from merchant discount rates, as well as save on monthly payments to SaaS or CRM companies or bookkeeping companies.
- By January 2019, BharatPe had signed up more than 50,000 retailers, who were doing over 1,000 transactions per day using its QR codes. At the same time, PhonePe launched interoperable QR codes and was signing up SMBs fast.
21496. This post master treks 10 km through forest area to deliver pension to a 110-year-old woman
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- S Christuraja, a 55-year-old postmaster from Tamil Nadu, travels nearly 10 km once a month to deliver the pension of a 110-year-old woman by trekking through the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve forest. Kuttiyammal lives at the top of a hill in an area called Injikuzhi. To reach her on time, Christuraja has to start his journey at 7 am.
- But when the water in the dam isn’t sufficiently high, he has to take a longer route and trek for 25 kms.
- He eats breakfast by the stream in the middle of the forest. He then stops at a temple where he takes a bath. After delivering the pension, he takes the path down the hill and returns home by 5 pm. The Senior Superintendent of Post Office, Sivaji Ganesh, told that no one else was willing to take up this challenge
21497. From autos to vintage bicycles, this startup can help you quirk up your sock drawers
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- Mint and Oak is an online socks brand based out of Mumbai that makes socks for men. Currently bootstrapped, the startup has sold over 10,000 pairs of socks over the last year.
- It took Purvi eight months to launch the brand and she started Mint and Oak with her savings of Rs 5 lakh. Since the launch, the startup has grown to be self-sustainable.
- The startup also has operations and warehouse team to carry out the fulfilments. When Mint and Oak started, they were fulfilling orders out of home, but as the business grew, they moved to a professional warehousing facility
21498. [The Turning Point] How poor after-sales service led this entrepreneur to start Onsitego
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- Started by IIM-Bangalore alumnus Kunal Mahipal, Onsitego provides extended warranty, annual maintenance contracts, and damage protection plans for devices and appliances in partnership with India’s top retailers, marketplaces, and consumer finance companies.
- It recently expanded its services with new plans like annual maintenance contract (AMC) for air conditioners and water purifiers, and assured buyback for smartphones.
- Today, Onsitego, which has a 300-member team across India, claims to have a customer base of 6.5 million.
21499. This Hyderabad-based startup aims to take brand engagement and communication beyond social media
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- A team of ten, SocioHub was founded by Chethan and Praveen who knew each other while pursuing their MBA from Babson College, US.
- SocioHub is a SaaS all-in-one community management platform that helps individuals or organisations build, grow and monetise their own branded community.
- Beyond the standard engagement features such as groups, posts, polls, articles, messaging, topics etc, SocioHub also offers a wide range of modules such as event management, membership management, content management etc, that you can choose to opt for based on your community needs.
21500. [Startup Bharat] How this Bhopal-based personal care brand raked in Rs 20 lakh despite the pandemic
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- Founded in 2018 by mother-son duo Manjula and Gaurav Tiwari, Mystique Earth offers natural personal care products. The startup has been selling products on its website since February 2020.
- Once the products are developed, the startup has an in-house dedicated design cell to apply the brand’s inspiration and theme in its primary and secondary packaging, posters, banners, corrugated boxes, and even adhesive tapes.
- The bootstrapped startup currently offers products under three broad segments — skincare, body care, and hair care. The prices of Mystique Earth's products start from Rs 549.