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New Indian Express
27-07-2025
- General
- New Indian Express
Bringing digital India into tribal hinterlands of Odisha
BHUBANESWAR: If people of tribal-dominated Chaturanjali and 13 other remote villages nearby, many not yet entirely accessible, in Mayurbhanj district are experiencing the convenience of government-to-citizen (G2C) e-services today, Manjulata Chattar has had a significant role in it. A village-level entrepreneur of Chaturanjali, Chattar runs a common service centre (CSC) in her village that helps people of the area get access to online banking and other government services. In fact, the CSC was termed as one of the top-performing centres in the country by Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw who also felicitated Chattar with CSC Digital Seva Gaurav Samman at the CSC Diwas held in New Delhi recently. Vaishnaw said Chattar digitally trained herself to start the CSC, which has become a lifeline for over 2,000 villagers, especially women, and marginalised communities, in the rural area of Mayurbhanj district. She provides the CSC services to villagers for free. While the CSC was started by her husband Rajanikant Chattar in 2016, it was converted to CSC+ in 2023. 'After my marriage, my husband encouraged me to take advanced training in computer operations. Since he had already received his CSC operator ID, I wanted to help him run the centre. So, I applied for a CSC ID too, and underwent a month-long training on the Digital Seva portal to qualify as an operator,' recalled 38-year-old Chattar, who is a BA graduate from Karanjia Women's College. While the couple initially handled the CSC operations together, Chattar today runs it entirely by herself and has employed eight staff for help. Of the eight, six are girls of her village who have completed their Plus II or graduation.
Time of India
16-06-2025
- Time of India
Man arrested, 6 minors detained for killing Shirdi farmer for phone
Nashik: The Shirdi police arrested one man and detained six minors on Saturday on the charges of abducting and murdering a farmer. Police said the motive was to steal the farmer's cellphone and sell the same to finance a birthday celebration. According to the FIR, six juveniles, aged between 14 and 17, along with a 22-year-old youth, kidnapped a man on June 8 and killed him that night before taking his mobile phone. Inspector Ranjit Galande said: "It was the birthday of a 15-year-old. To finance a party for him, the boy's three friends abducted the farmer on June 8. They took him to a cane field where they killed him and fled. They sold the farmer's cellphone for the birthday bash. One youth has been arrested and six minors were detained on Saturday after the farmer's body was found on Thursday night." Police records show that the victim, Ganesh Chattar, a 42-year-old farmer from Chasnali village in Kopargaon, had travelled to Sakori village (35 km away) on June 8. At 7.30 pm, three juveniles led him to a nearby cane farm and demanded his cellphone. They subsequently contacted four additional accomplices, including 22-year-old Sahil Bansode, and began assaulting the farmer. Police said, "It was then one of the minors allegedly strangled Chattar while the birthday boy allegedly drew a knife from another minor and stabbed Chattar in the back." The boys then abandoned the body in the cane field. The decomposing remains were discovered on June 12. Postmortem confirmed death by strangulation and stab injuries. The victim's identity was established through a missing persons report filed by his relatives on June 8. The investigation revealed the missing mobile phone, which was tracked through surveillance to a man in Sakori village. Further investigation showed that the family had purchased the device from one of the six detained minors for Rs 4,500. This discovery led to the case being solved, resulting in the detention of the juveniles andthe arrest of the adult. Police have booked them under section 310 (dacoity), and 140 (abducting with intent to murder and victim being murdered).
