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Nagpur: Over 120
farmers, farmers' widows and youth have enrolled for a free
computer training centre set up by a non-resident Indian from Oman
in a Maharashtra village.
Krishnakumar Taori, the group managing director of a construction
company in Oman, is a native of the Ghuikhed village on the
Yavatmal-Amravati border in the farmers' suicide-hit Vidarbha
region.
"With more than 120 registrations, including farmers, widows and
youth, they will be provided basic to advanced computer courses
absolutely free of cost here," said Sanjay S. Dhotre, a BJP MP
from Akola, at the centre's inauguration in Saturday. Taori was
also present at the function.
Dhotre admitted that though MPs received funds for development
works in their constituency, "such an idea to set up a computer
centre did not strike me."
With 10 computers and an internet connection, this is the first
such training centre in the region containing nearly 100 villages.
The courses will be taught in three shifts daily.
In April, Taori, who was born to a cotton farmer in Ghuikhed,
decided to set up the centre after a visit to Pandharkavada
village to distribute saris and blankets to 200 women, whose
husbands had committed suicide due to debt, said an activist.
"At that time, he (Taori) had expressed a desire to set up
computer training centre and industrial training institutes. Land
acquisition for the institutes has been done," Vidarbha Jan
Andolan Samiti chief Kishore Tiwari, who helped in Taori's
efforts, told IANS Sunday.
He said that for the last five years, Taori, the group managing
director of Hasan Juma Backer Trading and Contracting Co. LLC, has
been engaged in providing free education to tribal children of the
backward Melghat region in Amravati district.
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