Odisha

Prakash Chandra Dehuri from Budhdani village in Odisha turned to banana planting after he was unable to find a job in his village

Bijay Kumar Kabi, director at Action for Protection of Wild Animals in Odisha planted a mangrove forest to prevent Badakot village from being eroded by cyclones

It is because of the efforts taken by the divisional forest officer Pradeep Mirase of Malkangiri forest in Odisha that the fire incidents have drastically reduced from 2,152 cases to 288 in just two years

Odisha is often plagued with cyclones but Amresh Samant from Paradip district started planting 'mini forests' in neighbouring villages to mitigate the environmentally damaging impacts of  soil erosion and flooding

As a divisional forest officer, Sasmita Lenka from Odisha helped bust an international network of pangolin smugglers in Athagarh and Khunnpunni. Despite death threats and resistance from those in power, she took action against 36 smugglers and rescued five pangolins

Prem Sahoo, a professional Odissi dancer from Odisha, credits his lion-hearted mother, Manjulata, for defending his passion and standing up for him when he couldn't.

Dilip from Odisha learnt an innovative method to grow potatoes using agro-waste, to put an end to stubble burning.

Amidst a paucity of funds and able to experiment just once a year, Dilip Baral, in Odisha, covered a tiring seven year journey to conceive a seed extractor machine for tomato and brinjal

Sunil and Ranjan Soren have become the youngest and first players in Odisha to sign a five-year professional contract with Punjab FC. Read the story of how they were discovered

Starting a month-long drive on September 27, the youngsters collected waste reaching Indian shores from countries like Sri Lanka, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia