Programmes · Running
The boat library
A country boat with a tin trunk of books, every Thursday, to five chars too small or too new for a library.
- Who it is for
- Families on chars near Majuli with no library and no bridge
- Where
- Jorhat and Majuli: from Nimatighat to five chars
- Running since
- 2017
- Spent on it in 2025-26
- ₹18,60,000
- For CSR: Schedule VII
- (ii) Promoting education
- Programme lead
- Mitali Doley, Programme lead (sample person)
Who funds it
- A Guwahati foundation (named in the annual report)
How it works
Thursday from Nimatighat
Two librarians and about 400 books.
An hour at each char
Return last week's books, borrow this week's, read aloud with the youngest.
Cancelled in high water
When the district bans country boats, the boat stays tied up; we say so on WhatsApp.
Counted
What we can count
5
chars visited every week
2025-26 · The boat's log
46
Thursday runs made, of 52
2025-26 · The boat's log Six were cancelled for high water.
14,820
books issued from the boat
2025-26 · The boat's issue register
Stories
From this programme
The boat library · September 2026
The boat came instead
In July the river took the path to her library. For seven weeks the boat brought the books.
A girl of 14 on a char near Majuli. Name changed.