Koderma

“This programme can not only thrive in Jharkhand, but all over India,” says Siddharth Tripathi, a 1999-batch IFS officer.

A sleepy little town in Jharkhand’s Koderma district, Jhumri Telaiya has more to it than just its residents’ love for music, besides the fact, of course, that it is not a colloquial term or a fictitious place.

After waiting for the government to build a road and a bridge for them for 20 years, these impoverished villagers have taken on the stupendous task of building these themselves.