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  • Within the SITE an experiment known as the Kheda project was undertaken in the Pij district of Gujarat and jointly managed by the Space Applications Centre (SAC) and the Indian National Television

    Chapter 6 1984

  • All Patels trace their ancestry to the Kansas-sized Indian state of Gujarat, but their declared homeland is the southern district of Kheda, which is smaller in area than the city of

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • This pilot project was funded by UNDP and executed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 1975-76, within the framework of SITE, with a particular objective of promoting technological and rural development in Kheda district of Gujarat State.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • Programmes consisted of half an hour of “national programming” transmitted from the Delhi Earth Station via satellite to all SITE receivers, and another half hour of programmes prepared specially for the Kheda district and transmitted from the Pij transmitter.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • Kheda district is mainly agricultural and is among the wealthier and more progressive areas of India.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • Kheda served as a testing ground for a number of programming approaches.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • Although the choice of target for the Kheda project suggested an intended priority for animal husbandry programmes, as one author, who was a member of a multidisciplinary team to measure the impact of the programmes, put it, “more emphasis was placed on broadening of outlook, self-reliance, opening a window to the world, etc. and a somewhat less emphasis on animal husbandry and agriculture.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • The first consists of the Khedawals, named after Kheda, a village in Gujarat, who are a strictly orthodox class holding a good position in the caste.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • _ -- The Khedawals are a class of Gujarati Brahmans, who take their name from Kheda or Kaira, the headquarters of the Kaira

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • The indigo cultivators at Champaran, the textile workers at Ahmedabad and the peasants of Kheda gave him cause in 1917-18 for the launching of highly successful, though localised, satyagraha campaigns which contained in them clear signs of their South African lineage.

    PART I 1918

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