Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot college,
Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is a product of Doon School and St.Stephen's College, Delhi. He quit his job with Grindlays Bank over three decades ago and has ever since been at work educating, empowering rural people. In 1972 he founded the Barefoot College in Tilonia, in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. He focuses on imparting employment generating, modern skills to illiterates and school drop outs. He has proved how adept India's masses are with emerging technologies. Most notably, his barefoot women technicians go around intalling and maintaining solar electric systems in rural areas.


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