From The Indian Express
Center-Left Owned by Indian Express GroupBunker Roy, whose Barefoot College gave ‘cop outs, drop outs, and wash outs’ a new start, passes away
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Bunker Roy, the social activist who founded the Social Work and Research Centre—known as Barefoot College—in Tilonia in 1972, died on Tuesday at the age of 81. He was noted for empowering rural communities, especially women, by providing them skills and confidence to transform their villages without relying on formal education or conventional institutions.
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Roy founded the Social Work and Research Centre, popularly known as Barefoot College, in Tilonia in 1972
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Sanjit Bunker Roy, the social activist who gave rural communities, particularly women, the skills and confidence to transform their villages without depending on formal education or conventional institutions, died on Tuesday at the age of 81. Roy, the founder of Barefoot College in Tilonia…
