The campaign has come as a lesson on the strength of combined effort: several NGO partners, grassroots groups, and the Forest Department.

“They realise that groundwater is a common resource, not private property, and hence requires collective action,”

Through this venture, farmers are finding stable incomes, and sustainable livelihoods as the produce is directly bought without intermediaries

Millets are being made part of the midday meal and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in several districts of Odisha

“Most of the plants dismissed as weeds are edible and we don’t even know it. We walk past them every day ..."

“This kind of art can make people come to the river, not take it to be just a dirty river but something that you would want to come and see. "

"In areas where several borewells tap the aquifer, ... we try to convince the whole community to opt for recharge."

An environmentalist inspires us to think and plan for the future, to focus on the positives, on the solutions, for a better life. He inspires us to dream.

सारे लोकव्यवहारच त्या बोलीत होत असल्यानं कला, संस्कृती, परंपरा, खाद्यसंस्कृती, उत्सव अशा विविध बाबींशी निगडित मोठा खजिनाच बोलीभाषेत असतो.