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Apr 8 2019

How a digital literacy project is changing the lives of Adivasi villagers in Maharashtra

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Education, Information / By SLSV / April 8, 2019 April 8, 2019

The programme, run by the research collective PUKAR, has helped over 30,000 villagers access welfare services and land records. On January 31, speaking in Parliament during the interim Budget session, President Ram Nath Kovind noted that under the central government’s Digital India initiative, 116,000 villages have been digitally connected, 40,000 gram panchayats have wifi hotspots and …

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Apr 5 2019

Indian techie Satyarup Siddhanta, 35, is the world’s youngest to climb tallest peaks, volcanoes

2 Comments / ChangeMaker, Information / By SLSV / April 5, 2019 April 5, 2019

Satyarup Siddhanta is the only Indian to scale “Seven Summits and Seven Volcanic Summits”. Bengali techie Satyarup Siddhanta set foot on the 4,285-metre high volcanic peak, Mt. Sidley in Antarctica, at 6:28 am (Indian Standard Time) on Wednesday, becoming the youngest person in the world at 35 years, 274 days to scale the tallest …

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Apr 4 2019

This 25-year-old from UP found it hard to make his villagers believe in water conservation; today they are reviving their dying lakes together

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Environment, Information, Pollution / By SLSV / April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019

Ramveer Tanwar grew up amidst lush farm lands only to realise that the lakes in his village were dying. The 25-year-old has been unstoppable in raising awareness around water conservation, since With India’s water levels declining every other minute, it is the remotest regions of the country which have been facing the worst of this crisis. In the little village …

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Apr 3 2019

Walkman Of India: This 30-Year-Old Is Walking From Kanyakumari To Kashmir To Create Environmental Awareness

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Information / By SLSV / April 3, 2019 April 3, 2019

Suresh Daniel, quit his comfortable job in Singapore, to walk 3,800 kms on foot and spread environmental awareness from Kankyakumari to Kashmir 30-year-old, Suresh Daniel, was busy with life doing his dream job in the hospitality industry in Singapore before he decided to quit it all to take up a mission. A ‘very simple’ mission, …

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Apr 2 2019

This Wing Commander And His Team Are Painting Pune’s Walls With Social Messages

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Information / By SLSV / April 2, 2019 April 2, 2019

On October 2, 2014, Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Wing Commander Puneet Sharma from Pune, a veteran who was commissioned into the Airforce on June 14, 1989, believed that such an initiative would be successful only if there is active participation by all citizens. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a campaign …

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