People in rural, mostly tribal (Adiwasi) communities who live near the town of Khargone face challenges in getting basic utilities such as telecommunications. In the past, people in this village had to travel through the forest and cover around 8 km on foot to reach the main road for any type of connectivity.
The AirJaldi Khargone network team worked to establish a network connection there, setting up a relay dedicated for provision of connectivity to the village area. As a result, local community members are now able to use the internet for all their needs.  

Tribal Communities of Madhya Pradesh

Situated in Murtizapur the Icchapurti Durga temple is a sacred place that attracts thousands of pilgrims and devotees throughout the year, in particular during the nine holy days of Navratri, when people from across the country visit the temple to witness the make offerings and participate in ceremonies.
Our AirJaldi Murtazipur network team has been a part of this religious gathering for two years now. We help the temple management to showcase the function live and operate all the CCTV cameras by providing bandwidth, streaming and technical support services.   

Icchapurti Durga Mata Mandir

I am very happy with this new connection. The speed and stability are much better than what I had before. Before Airjaldi connectivity, there was no internet in our area. I was first provided with a V-SAT connection from BSNL but, though I paid R. Rs 30,000-40,000 I did not get a connection I could work with. So, I used to run my CSC from Angara block which is almost 30-40 km. away from the Paika.. 

After getting connected by Airjaldi’s wirelell link, it became possible for me as well as the local people to carry out our work through the CSC center itself and now people don’t have to go to 30-40 Km. away from their location for any work related to internet. After I got the Airjaldi connection, the government also provided me with work for Grameen bank, which is used by local people

Angara block

Grameen bank

Sanil Oraon: CSC Owner – Paika Village, Ranchi District, Jharkhand,

My name is Ganeshgiri Goswamy and I’m the Forest Guide to help the tourists at the Melghat Tiger Reserve. I’m a native of Semadoh and I have been working as a guide for over 11-12 years. This is the Semadoh Sankul and the good internet network service available now has been very helpful to us. Now, the pocket devices we carry around for our work can be used easily and WiFi is also made free here so that’s really good. The WiFi signal range is good and reliable and lets us staff keep in touch easily and surely and we can update each other on time about anything that’s happening in the area.
Tourism has benefited from this too. They can contact us whenever they want and we can reach out to them easily now with good internet service in the area. The numbers have increased too. AirJaldi has aided us with our work in many different ways.

Ganeshgiri Goswamy | Melghat Tiger Reserve Guide

My name is Ashish Alokar and I run this Setu Kendra (Electronic Services Centre) here at Churni, which is about 70 Km from the Chikhaldara Tehsil. AirJaldi’s internet connection has helped us a lot!!! There are about 42 villages in this region and all the villagers depend on this Setu Kendra due to its central location. Now, it has become so much easier to help people as I can do most of their mandatory e-government and citizens’ documentation works online right here! And because the internet connection is reliable, we don’t have to suffer unwanted stress or tension. Good connection and net speed from AirJaldi has helped children in their education also and the youth are better empowered due to a lot more options becoming available to them. I’ve been emboldened to start a State Bank of India Customer Care Centre (SBI CSC) along with the many other online services I provide here already. This in turn has rippled into the opening of 1500 bank accounts in just 3 months, a record for our villages since it was a huge ordeal for us to open bank accounts as we had to travel a distance of 80 Km to get to the main branch of the bank. There are 1500 more coming! Thank you AirJaldi, for helping Churni to get on the Digital bandwagon of the nation.

Ashish Alokar, Electronic Service Center, Harisal, Maharashtra

Parmarth Niketan It is the largest Ashram in Rishikesh. They are using AirJaldi’s service from early 2016.  With the connection, the ASharm is able toc carry out live broadcasts on all social sites, such as Youtube, etc. Broadcasets include daily morning universal prayers, daily yoga and meditation classes, daily Satsang and lecture programs, kirtan, the world-renowned Ganga Aarti at sunset, as well as Nature Cure and Ayurvedic treatment.

Every year they organize world yoga festival, and other events, during which they upgrade their Bandwidth so that the 500 to 700 people from different countries, who are attending this festival, can use WiFi hotspot facilities a the temple

Parmarth Niketan

Rishikesh

Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Swargashram,Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

I was working as a freelancer at Chandigarh and since I came back to my native location in HP, I always felt the difference of internet speed which is almost nothing when compared to my work needs. My Freelancer work was negatively impacted due to this. I now live in Rajol, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. It’s a village located near NH-154. Even though the village is very close to National Highway still not having the proper internet connectivity. I have used many other connections before, like Reliance, Idea, Tata Docomo, Airtel, Jio, but found no proper solutions for my need of high bandwidth internet connectivity. Then I came to know about the Airjaldi network from one of my friend who is running the hotel business at Dharamshala and also faced the same issue of bad internet connectivity. I called up the Airjaldi team and was guided by the team about the installation requirements like An Iron Poll for fixing up the receiver device in the direct range to Tower placed at Naddi Location. I liked the enthusiasm of the Technical Team. After availing the Airjaldi services I found the services charge a little bit costly at the start but later on I could cover up the costs through my work. Now I can use the net without issues at my home location. It really changed the pace my online work. At present, I am not working as a freelancer, but I still need the fast and stable connection net I have, as currently I am working as Asst. Professor at Dronacharya college, Rait, Kangra. As part of my work, I maintain the college’s website, for which I need always a good internet connection. The Airjaldi network helps me in my work and life and I found it worth recommending to others also. 

<span>&nbsp;</span>Rajol, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.

Naddi

Dronacharya college, Rait, Kangra

Sharad Kumar Verma: University Asst. Professor, Freelancer –Rajol , Himachal Pradesh,

My name is Piyush Manviya and I’m from Katkumbh. Our village is based in a very remote place hence we didn’t have any internet facilities before AirJaldi arrived here. Now as we have access to fast internet connection, we can use WhatsApp, video calling features to do our various works. We can handle a lot of our important work right here, instead of commuting 70-80 Km from Katkumbh. Work related to education, or official reasons.
We use the AirJaldi internet service for internet banking, our bank Passbook and account transactions can be tracked easily now. We can do all that online now, right here in our village. It helps us to keep track of our bank accounts easily. We use BhimApp & DigiPay for all our Aadhar based payments.
For hospital emergencies, we can call 108 or even just message them whenever needed.

Piyush Manviya, Katkumb, Maharashtra 

Peepal Farm has been selling organic produce and homemade products in the Dharamshala area to raise funds for our stray animal recovery center, to create awareness and generate employment Thanks to Air jaldi’s reliable high speed internet, we are now able to take orders for our products from our website and sell products all over India. This has allowed us to create a bigger, more stable business.

Peepal Farm

Dharamshala

Robin: Organic Farm Owner – Peepal Farm, Dhanotu, Himachal Pradesh

I’m Rohit Ravindra Kolhe and I’m a farmer. This is my father, Dr. Kolhe’s home and I’m his elder son. We need internet connection for farming here. The idea is to install an automatic system for dripping and for fertilizers for the soil. We also want to set up cameras and a good internet connection is required for that. I am only involved in my farming but my parents have their NGO here where they conduct training programs and they need internet service for those.

Rohit Ravindra Kolhe, progressive farmer, Harisal, Maharashtra

We quit our jobs, returned to the village and formed a company called ‘Pracaya’ which means coming together. The motto of the company is reverse immigration and promoting vacation with zero carbon emission. To meet this vision, we first took the franchise of Zostel which is a chain pf backpackers hostel and set it up here in Bir Village. Pracaya employes 12 locals, who were earlier working in Delhi/Gurgaon or Chandigarh; for front desk, chef and housekeeping roles.

We also explored a trek in the Barot valley which engaged local trekking guides and started promoting monastic tours on Mountain Bikes MTB along with paragliding.Trek, Take Off and Trail; None of them is polluting the environment. 

All this was only possible with a consistent internet connectivity that we got from our internet service provider, Airjaldi, and the support team which makes itself available 24X7X365 days! Considering the stable connectivity of AirJadli’s internet ser

Bir Village

Pracaya

Ankush Rana, Bir Village, Kangra District, Business Owner, Pracaya.

I work in Software domain and high speed stable internet connection is essential for me.I came to know about Airjaldi from their installed connections at Dharamkot. I contacted to get a connection for Kareri. I liked the prompt replies and communication from entire team. The infrastructure, hardware and connection was installed on time despite remoteness and road being closed. I was impressed with extra efforts the team put in to get everything done. Billing charges were transparent and connectivity and speed were up to the mark.

Dharamkot

Sarbpreet Singh: Online business owner – Kareri, Himachal Pradesh

We sat with the Medical Superintendent, the doctors on the field. They deal with various issues while serving the health needs of the tribal population of the Melghat region, which consists of numerous villages and very remote hamlets. We hear their issues and try to figure out what opportunities still lie for us to contribute with our services and the discussion ends up being very enlightening.

A chat with the Health in Charge dept of Churni

My name is Rishikesh Sopan Khillare and I run the Rise Foundation at Harisal. We work on closing the gap between the people and the government so our work helps to strengthen the governmental system fulfill the needs of the people. We conduct research on education, traditional knowledge and culture of Melghat. We then analyse the data and figure out the needs of the people and in the process act as a facilitator for the government to fulfill these requirements. AirJaldi’s work in the field of Internet service connectivity and network creation has helped us not only to bring digital learning to the villages here but also given us the dream of providing quality education to the rural community through virtual classes.

AirJaldi has helped me make my decision to establish Rise Foundation’s center right here in the village of Harisal because of it’s internet network. We now conduct our research, and data analyses, keep ourselves updated on various matters, every important aspect of our work and life has improved, and it’s all thanks to AirJaldi.

Stories from the field