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Pravasini Batakar from Odisha’s Kandhamal district crosses streams and waterways to ensure tribal population’s access to health services in remote areas. She has also helped with the Malnutrition-Free Villages project that has impacted over 21,000 villagers.

Harivartha Prajeeth and Dr Mangayarkarasay Leela from Tamil Nadu practice the art of natural farming and have trained 500 others.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued the draft Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2021 in which they proposed a blanket ban on a number of plastic items, amongst other things.

What started as a curiosity to grow plants during her childhood, has turned into an active hobby with encouragement from family and friends for Hyderabad-based Naina Sarda. She details how the often discarded mango seed has been used as a mouth freshener and also for high blood pressure patients while narrating a step-by-step guide on growing mango saplings at home.

Remembering Late Ambika Khare who—as the tiger population in Panna Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, dwindled down to just one—worked hard to join the people with the parks through his interesting nature camps.

7Weaves Social Pvt Ltd, a small textile company founded by Mandakini Gogoi and her husband, Rituraj Dewan, work with indigenous tribes in Assam’s forests to create a unique social experiment. They’re marrying fashion with preserving the biodiversity of the region through Eri silk production and other eco-friendly practices.

These 10 organisations help improve the quality of life in Indian cities and encourage participation from citizens to get involved in changing the system.

Ruchita Jagzap is an architect who shuffles between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. She is also an urban designer by profession and the mother to a 4-year-old and shares the joys of gardening during the lockdown and the experience of planting over 101 saplings in her society.

The journey undertaken by four Bengali men on cycles in the pre-independence era is one of adventure, grit and love for travel. Riding all the way from Asansol to Lahore, a well-kept diary, of almost 90 years, details every bit of their journey with pictures.

From setting up a decentralised rice and milling centre in Kanjariguda village, Odisha, to printing and mobile recharge services, this all-women's self-help group (SHG) is helping boost the income of the village.