NAMCHI, 17 Feb: To highlight rural development in Sikkim, a five-member team led by Pragyan Bhattacharya, head of Delhi-based e-Media Solution is currently in South Sikkim. The team is here to highlight rural development and at the same time focus on Bharat Nirman Volunteers and the various work carried out under Bharat Nirman.
The purpose of their visit is to make training films and a documentary to stir up the process of rural development and at the same time also to create awareness on rural development. The team will be touring across South Sikkim for a period of 15 days which began on 11 February.
This team from e-Media Solution represents the National Film Division Corporation (NFDC) which is making the documentary along with training films for the State Institute for Rural Development (SIRD) and also for all institutes involved in rural development. The team has already visited places like Salghari, Tinik-Chisopani, Poklok-Denchung and Mellidara in the South District. Besides this, it is for the first time that such a documentary is being made in the Nepali language by the Ministry of Rural Development.
Simultaneously, similar projects are under progress in other states as well. In the days to come the documentary prepared in Nepali language based on rural development in South Sikkim would be translated into other regional languages so that it would help and provide an example for the people of other states, informed the members of the team.
