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After winning prizes and accolades across the country,a fortnightly,Khabar Leh-ariya,brought out for rural women,has bagged the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize for the year 2009.
The award will be presented to Nirantar the NGO that runs the newspaper at a function at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in December.
Launched in 2002 as an information provider to the women in the Chitrakoot and Banda districts of Bundelkhand region,Khabar Lehariya has now become a voice of the lower class neo-literate women of the region. The newspaper has two editions with a circulation of around 25,000 in 400 villages across Bundelkhand.
Announcing the award,UNESCO has stated in its official communique that Khabar Lehariya,which means news waves is a well-structured method of training newly literate women as journalists and democratising information production.
Priced at Rs 2 a copy,the eight-page fortnightly in local Bundeli dialect of Hindi carries information and articles related to the women and women-centric news from across the country. It also carries poems and short stories.
With a 20-member team,Khabar Lehariya has two bureau offices in Karvi in Chitrakoot and Banda.
These members do not just collect news,but also edit and design pages.
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