Goregaon

A multi-talented girl from Goregaon, Mumbai, Priya Darshini is driven by passion with her hands in several pies. Read on to know more about this philanthropist's life.

Banking on the farm-to-fork concept, Bhagwat is a farmer from Nashik who carries freshly harvested veggies and sells them in Mumbai. Best part? His profits have increased by 20 per cent and Mumbaikars get to eat organic food.

The society segregates and recycles more than 90 per cent waste.

Trisha Bhattacharya and Soorya Balasubramanian, students of classes 9 and 10 from Vibgyor High School in Goregaon, were behind this initiative.

"Police constable Vispute is a saviour. We need more such police personnel in the force. The bravery and calmness she displayed under such tense circumstances was outstanding.”

"In a matter of ten days, we have over 700 crowdsourced umbrellas and Rs 40,000 in cash to arrange for more. "

Even as the grief of losing their son was tearing them apart, Dadarao decided to do something nobody expected. Armed with broken paver blocks, gravel, stones and shovel, he started filling every pothole he witnessed within one month of Prakash’s passing.

When several attempts to open the car door failed, the traffic cop broke the glass window adjacent to the driver’s seat. Without caring for any damage or injury it could have caused him, he managed to open the door.

Currently, the Western-Harbour Line services, operated by the Central Railways run along CSMT-Andheri, CSMT-Panvel and Panvel-Andheri routes.

Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer and academician, is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar.