P2P in Chhattisgarh with Bultoo

Bultoo is how local Adivasis in Chhattisgarh pronounce Bluetooth. 

‘Bultoo’ radio enables rural people in one of India’s poorest states to use mobile handsets to broadcast issues in their own language - Kuduk, Gondi. 

These are converted to Internet-based radio programmes and transmitted to all gram panchayats with broadband facilities. Each morning, one representative of each village visits their gram panchayat office to download those radio programmes onto their Bluetooth-enabled mobile handsets, and carries them back to their village to share through Bluetooth, free of charge, with other villagers. 

All programmes recorded in the district over the day reach every villager via ‘bultoo’. 

All India Radio does not broadcast even a single new bulletin in their language.