Dhanada Mishra is a Civil Engineer by background and lives and works in Orissa. He has been with AID for several years now and was instrumental in starting the AID chapter in Sydney. He has been actively involved in coordinating all the activities of AID-Orissa. Dhanada also started the AID Rural Technology Resource Centre in Orissa, an institute aimed at training and demonstrating rural technologies and ideas. He is working actively in spreading awareness about NREGA in the interior Gajapati district of Orissa and helped in pointing out loopholes in the implementation of the act. He is also working in concert with the Pratham group in spreading the “Learning to read” program in 5 districts around Gajapati in Orissa. Dhanada Mishra visited the US recently and shared the success of the Learning to read program which is operating in the Gajapati District. Click here for a detailed report on the activities of AID-Orissa led by Dhanada Mishra.