Divya Jain a 15 year old girl from Chittorgarh started a polythene free drive by herself against its use in Rajasthan and beyond. She also encourages people to fabricte water troughs to save birds from the searing desert summer.
Divya Jain, a class 10 student in Chittorgarh, over 350 km from state capital Jaipur, believes in leading by example. Over the last few years, she has herself made and distributed 15,000 cloth and jute bags to the people in the city, famous for its historic fort, in a bid to persuade them to use such bags in place of polythene.
The summer is terribly harsh in the desert state of Rajasthan and hundreds of birds die every year due to lack of water to drink.
“We are a family of four including Divya, her mother and a 10-year-old son. We always support her for the work she is doing. Her efforts have started to yield results,” her father Sanjay Kumar Jain, who teaches in a government school in Chittorgarh, said proudly.
Src- http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/a-teenage-girls-campaign-for-a-polythene-free-india-environment-feature-1545995.html