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A Bhavnagar doctor's initiative to exchange plastic bags for upcycled cloth bags is making a green impact, providing employment to women, and reducing plastic waste. Learn more about this eco-friendly project.

Turnout shows eagerness for offline class, say teachers

Delhi government's indication that it may soon reopen schools has once again sparked a debate on the issue. India Today TV spoke to parents in Delhi, UP, Bengal and Rajasthan. Here's what they think.

Parents are apprehensive, too, especially those with children in Class XII

Rajkot: For the last three years, Dr Tejas Doshi in Bhavnagar has been receiving rather strange items in couriers - lakhs of used writing pens. However, the pens that were destined for trash and added to environment pollution, have been refilled and put back to use by students in Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan too. A social media campaign he had initiated in 2018 flooded him with nearly five lakh pens, of which over 90% have been refilled and distributed to students. Dumped pens as they cause ...

RAJKOT: Forty thousand and counting — this is the haul of eco bricks that is literally paving the way for environ consciousness at the Akwada lake garden in Bhavnagar. And, what is even better is the fact that the process is a citizen initiative. In a clever move by Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), these non-recyclable plastic waste bricks or eco bricks will take hundreds of years to get destroyed, and thus, will prevent pollution in land, water and air. The actual brain behind BMC’s...