When Meenakshi C was made the Conservator of Forests in Kerala's Central Region, her aim was to eliminate the age-old use of polythene bags to raise seedlings.
Rajkumari Kinnar is a 55-year-old trans woman from Jharkhand. She has single handedly raised 8 orphaned children, and spends about 75 per cent of her earnings on the poor and needy.
Rambhai Charan, a 62-year-old retired primary school teacher in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, has single handedly planted more than 5 lakh trees in his village.