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“When I was in grade 9, I started taking an active interest in working on issues around air pollution. I have worked with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Delhi Metro, and also with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on various issues pertaining to the environment,” says the proactive teenager.

Mohanta says that he also often goes to schools to talk to the students about reusing plastic bottles. He says, “I tell them that plastic takes forever to decompose and dumping it is of no use, so we should reuse them.”

Subhajit Mukherjee, the founder of city-based NGO, Mission Green Mumbai, has found a cost-effective solution to the problem of rainwater wastage using PVC pipes and a water drum.

The enrollment of children in the age group 6 to 14 years has been above 95%. However, for the first time ever, the number of children not enrolled in schools has gone below 3%.

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This initiative is benefitting nearly 5000 students in rural parts of Rajasthan, Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh. About 150 teachers are spearheading this project.

At the core of this conference’s theme was a focus on the impact that participants can have beyond the conference.

The experimental kits distributed by LIFE Labs were mostly made of plastic, and last year, at a team meeting, it was revealed that 700 kg of plastic waste was being generated by the organisation, every year.

Anand Gopakumar explains that issues with such learning are mainly found in students and freshers coming from the low-income strata of the society—they find it quite challenging to work in teams, for example. And that's where TAP steps in.

When I read Totto Chan as a child, I wondered if I would feel any different about going to school if mine was like hers, in a railway carriage?