Gopal Dutt quit his lucrative career in civil engineering and became an organic farmer in 2015. But little did he realise his farming techniques would bag him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records
Maharashtra has issued a policy to replicate the tree plantation model that Popat Shinde from Raanmala village worked tirelessly for 25 years to success
Many who line up also suffer from medical conditions that require timely medication, but they do not want to leave their spot in the queue. Parikul sees that they have their medicines at the stipulated time.
“We looked around to source cloth and found it to be very expensive. It was during this time that the boys decided to collect old bed-sheets from hotels and use those to make the cloth bags,” informs Varsha Aswani, the proud mother of these teen boys with an eco and social conscience.
“It was very early on in life that I developed an interest in swimming. I remember there were so many villagers who would ask me how and why I am swimming but it was something that I enjoyed doing and therefore continued with it,” he recollects.
“Since many of such classroom projects never get this sort of exposure, I decided to enter the competition. Even if it would get some visibility, I knew I would get some collaborators to work with and that was basically my main intent.”
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