Real Super Heroes of India Who Turn a Plan Into Action

Richa Singh

Depression is one of the most helpless feelings you can come across with. A survey by WHO in the past showed that around 36 percent of the Indians represent the case of depression. Richa Singh, an IIT Guwahati alumnus, all her life had witnessed people around her suffering emotionally.

She even lost a friend who gave up and committed suicide owing to the emotional stress. This incident moved Richa to make a difference and she launched www.yourdost.com to provide assistance to individuals for fighting depression. The website acts as platform for the users to communicate with others sharing their emotional problems. More than 300 individuals have signed up to this support system.

Jadav Payeng

Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees came to life as the world came to know about this man. Jadav Payeng planted 550 hectare forest all by himself amidst Brahmaputra. The forest serves as a home for many endangered species. The floods in 1979 that brought ashore many dead reptiles changed the life of the 16-year old Jadav.

When the forest department put down his request to grow more trees, he started leading a isolated life at sandbar where he planted and grew trees for few years and even brought in ants to fertilize the soil. Soon he created a forest out of it.

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