Archana Borthakur (Assamese: অৰ্চনা বৰঠাকুৰ) is an Indian

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from

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. Borthakur founded social welfare society Priyobondhu in pursuit of community development and social change. She is known for her social works like donation of unused clothes, foods, books and household tools to the underprivileged.

Early life and education

Borthakur was born at

Dergaon Dergaon (IPA: ˈdɜːˌgɑ̃ʊ) is a town and a municipality in the Golaghat district of Assam, India.It is 282 km from the state capital Guwahati. Hemchandra Barua, the compiler of ''Hemkosh'' (the earliest Assamese-English dictionary) ...

in Golaghat district of

. She did her matriculation from Dergaon Girls Higher Secondary School in 2000 and higher secondary from Kamal Deorah College in 2002. Borthakur completed her BA & MA in Assamese literature from

Cotton College Cotton College was a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cotton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was also known as ''Saint Wilfrid's College''. The school buildings were centred on Cotton Hall, a country house used by religious communities fro ...

Social work

Borthakur launched a programme titled 'Positive Lights' in 2016 to provide right treatment and care to

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orphaned children. She has also arranged to decorate the care home of such children with lights and Rangoli and distributed food packets and educational materials along with other essential commodities collected from people. In 2018, Borthakur initiated a programme for children under the name and style of ‘Breakfast for a child’. Borthakur distributed school bags, pencil boxes, fluxes, tiffin boxes, erasers, wood pencils, colour pencils, picture books, exercise copies to below poverty level children in 2018. Khetri area on the outskirts of

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

was covered during this mission. Borthakur is educating girls in rural Assam about menstruation and making

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accessible to the underprivileged girls. Borthakur launched a survey project on child labour in 2020 with the help of

district administration. A survey was conducted on children from the age group of 9 to 14 years.

Literary works

Borthakur is the author of three novels ''Poridhi'', ''Aparajita'' and ''Cottonian ekhon rodor khiriki''.

References

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