Gujarat: Rural Experience – Youths answer rural calling

As the skyscrapers and malls emerge as the development indicators in vibrant Gujarat, a few students have decide to slog it out in the scorching heat to get a first-hand feel of development in rural Gujarat.our correspondent reports

Ahmedabad, June 9: “I was leading a very regular life in Mumbai, and was looking forward to some rural experience,” said 19-year-old Jahnavi Doshi, who cleared her Std XII exams from the American School of Mumbai. Born and brought up in Egypt, she had returned to the country about three years back. Doshi, along with her friend, Zainab Kakal (20) joined Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) to work as a volunteer in the tribal belt of Sagbara in Narmada district of Gujarat for a month.

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