Ramveer Tanwar has started a unique initiative to educate poor children. He has been running a library for poor children for four years. Due to his initiative libraries have been opened in more than 250 villages, which are free of cost. Ramveer has come to be known as ‘Library Man’. 33-year-old Ramveer has studied B.Tech and is doing a job. He got the idea of opening a library for poor children in the year 2018. He saw in his village Jhundpura that the children were not in the direction of studies, but in the grip of drugs. The Panchayat office built in the village was turning into a ruin, which was also becoming a den of drugs. He turned it into a library.
Ramveer started his new journey under the name ‘Mission Hundred Rural Library’. He opened one hundred libraries in a few days. After that he decided to build a village school. Gram Pathshala started with the construction of a library in Ganauli village of Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh in August 2020.
The youth doing government jobs in the village helped him in this work. He took the responsibility of taking over the ruined Panchayat Ghar with the consent of the village head. Turned it into a free modern library with my own money. There was a seating arrangement for 67 children. Gradually, children started getting crowded in this library. After this, a campaign to open libraries in the surrounding villages was started.
There is neither any formal organization nor any NGO of the people involved in this campaign. This is a group of some highly educated and successful people. Most of the team members are job-seekers, doing either government or private sector jobs. These include administrative officers, police officers, teachers, doctors, engineers and sportspersons. There is neither any post nor any office bearer in this organization. It is the resolve of the people of Team Gram Pathshala that until a library is built in every village of the country, no one will stay at their home on a holiday.
As a result of this, these people of the villages are getting a lot of support. With the inspiration of Team Gram Pathshala, so far libraries have been built in more than 250 villages of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana. The specialty of Team Gram Pathshala is that it does not involve in any kind of economic transaction. Its work is only to motivate the people of the village to build a library. The team members go from village to village on every holiday and for the purpose of public awareness, walk, cycle tour and hold meetings with the people. In this meeting the importance of library is explained to the people. At present, about 250 people are working actively in the team of Village Pathshala.