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Mission 2007: Technology for rural India
The huge poster displayed at the stall shows the photo of Gauzia, an entrepreneur from Andhra Pradesh. After she lost her husband to cancer, she faced utter poverty because she was illiterate.
What changed her life was the Computer Based Functional Literacy project of Tata Consultancy Services.
The CBFL program started by the TCS in eight Indian languages in 2000 makes an illiterate literate in just 40 hours.
Today, CBFL, functioning in 1400 centres across India, has created 90,000 literates, TCS says.
In Tamil Nadu alone, 18,000 illiterates have been made literate.
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