IIT students' pocket money helps community
The Telegraph (May 3, 2020)
The students took to crowdfunding after coming to know that many people living on and around the campus were having problems getting their basic essentials
Students of IIT Kharagpur have saved their pocket money to reach food and ration to villagers around the campus, many of them jobless during the lockdown.
The students, many of whom have gone back home since the lockdown started, took to crowdfunding after coming to know that many people living on and around the campus were having problems getting their basic essentials.
They had the fund transferred through a digital wallet to officials of Gopali Youth Welfare Society, an orgnisation of about hundred IIT students that was started in 2002 from the welfare of the people in the area.
Some officials of the Gopali gram panchayat, about 3km from the IIT campus, are associated with the society. (Read More)