Bihar builds an army of Internet Saathis

As many as 11,18,000 women and girls, across 5,873 villages in six districts of Bihar, have been trained in basic digital and Internet skills under the Internet Saathi project in collaboration with Tata Trusts and Google. Planned as a ripple effect, DEF trained 1,606 women in switching on and off a phone, browsing Google for food recipes, tailoring patterns, music videos and other websites of internet to expose them to the world of Internet. Each of these women then further trained thousands of others in and around their villages in digital tools and exposed them to the Internet. With that, Internet Saathi has completed its Bihar Chapter.