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Fondly known as Malik Bhai, the 29-year-old tea seller has been spending 80 per cent of his income to educate more than 40 underprivileged children since the last three years!

Besides depositing the plastic in garbage bins kept at the school gate everyday, the students also water the over two thousand saplings they have planted along the road. True education indeed! #LiveGreen

Did you know he once injected himself with bacilli to prove that leprosy was not highly contagious? This was just one of his many attempts to smash the social stigma around the disease!

It has certainly been a busy year for social media users. There have been several reasons for the virtual world to come together and help each other. Whether it was the Kerala floods or the #MeToo movement – social media platforms have been abuzz with activity.

Parents from low-income families often struggle to find the time to support their children, are alienated from educational systems themselves, and lack access to the networks that middle- and higher-income parents have.

The founder of Ek Sangharsh, a non-profit organisation, Bahl has engaged in humanitarian initiatives that focus on the betterment of poor and deprived communities, for several years now.

At the peak of his career, it would have been easy for Dev to settle into a posh metro city and live a comfortable life. Secure the future with his wife, Dr Priyanka, an IIT alumnus and professor at a government college. But he decided to tread the road less taken.

“About two years before my retirement. I started getting actively involved in social causes. Since I spent most of my younger days ensuring that I provided well for my family, I wanted to do something meaningful for those less fortunate.”

"We belong to poor families, and the fees which we can't pay is paid by our Basavaraj sir in memory of his late daughter."

Hyderabad's Sujathullah has used his own money in an effort to eliminate hunger, and help people in need.