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About 4,000 employees in 17 units in Oukhoo village of Pulwama contribute to 90% of pencil manufacturing in India

“I observed that the dropout rate was extremely high in the school and my first challenge was to change this. It did not help that the school had no infrastructure,” says Kotresh.

Did you know 8 million trees are cut every year to make 20 billion pencils worldwide? Now think of the happy implications if all those waste newspapers could be repurposed into eco-friendly pencils that don’t break.