Uttarakhand

Medhavi Keerti, Range Forest Officer posted in Uttarakhand’s Badrigaad Range launched Dhatree, an initiative to train women in making and selling organic soaps, cutlery, rhododendron juice, and other such products. They now earn up to Rs 1 lakh

Jagdish Kudiyal from Dehradun worked relentlessly by planting thousands of trees to revive a dying spring and recharge the groundwater table

EndureAir, an IIT-Kanpur-incubated startup, used smaller drones to fly very close to the dams that were damaged in Uttarakhand. They created very high-quality videos of the whole structure to help engineers obtain a clear perspective of the extent of the damage.

Kavita Bisht from Uttarakhand was attacked with acid when she was only 19. The severity of her attack left her visually impaired. But today, she’s using her own life experiences to counsel and teach young differently-abled children at the USR Indu Samiti School.

Lovepreet Kumar and his wife, Preeti, left their bustling city life in Gurugram to move to Ramgarh in Uttarakhand and embrace a life in the mountains. They run a YouTube channel called Punjabi Trekker, wherein they share their experiences and learnings from their new home.

In the 70s, Steve Lall quit the Indian Air Force and returned to his home in Jilling to preserve and guard the 140-acre mountain top, which covers vast orchards, forests, and farmlands, from encroachers. He runs the Jilling Estate with his wife, Parvati.

The glacier burst in Uttarakhand on 7 February 2021 has caused unprecedented harm to both life and material. Meet the two women officers who are leading rescue operations.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel have saved 12 trapped in the Tapovan tunnel in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, where rescue efforts are still underway.

Chandan Nayal from Uttarakhand quit his job to dedicate his life in protecting and increasing forest cover in the region, inspiring other villages to do the same

Gopal Dutt quit his lucrative career in civil engineering and became an organic farmer in 2015. But little did he realise his farming techniques would bag him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records