Meet 48-year-old M Yoganathan, a bus conductor working with the Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation (TNSTC), who has single-handedly planted over 1 lakh trees in the last 28 years.
While the body of the pen is built from plantain leaf, papaya leaf stem, coconut leaf and castor stem, a nib is fixed at one end of the stem. The other end is sealed using maida starch which holds the ink.
A total of 460 doctors and 1,000 staff across all districts in the state have been trained reportedly and the women will be provided with follow-up cards as reminders.
Once a fast-shrinking island in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu's Vaan island has started growing back thanks to a dedicated team of researchers from IIT Madras.