Programmes · Running
Training librarians
A year of training for every new village librarian: running a register, reading aloud, choosing books, and child protection.
- Who it is for
- Village librarians, most of them young women who finished school in the village
- Where
- Guwahati, Majuli and on the phone
- Running since
- 2013
- Spent on it in 2025-26
- ₹14,20,000
- For CSR: Schedule VII
- (ii) Promoting education, including vocational skills
- Programme lead
- Debojit Bora, Director (sample person)
Who funds it
- Donations from people in India
How it works
Ten days in Guwahati
Then monthly visits from a senior librarian.
Child protection first
Before anyone works with children.
A certificate
After a year, from Bhoral and a Guwahati college's library science department.
Counted
What we can count
43
village librarians, all from the village they serve
November 2026 · Staff list
38
of them have finished the year's training
November 2026 · Training records
₹4,500
honorarium a month for about 20 hours a week
Since April 2025 · Pay records in the audited accounts
Stories
From this programme
Training librarians · June 2026
A register in her own hand
She finished school in the village and became its librarian. Now she trains new ones.
A village librarian in Dibrugarh district, 22. Name changed.