Post offices in India provide banking facilities in the absence of banking institutions in the rural hinterland. About 89 percent of total post offices are located in rural areas. These post offices are the sole prospects of savings and investments for a large chunk of the rural population. In such a situation, the ‘saving agents’ serve as a vital link between the rural denizens and the post offices.

Thanks to the strong will of a bureaucrat and the villagers to provide green cover to a barren plot of land, around an acre of in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district has been modified into a ‘micro-forest’.

प्रकृति मित्र एक अभियान है जो उत्तर प्रदेश के स्कूलों को 'कार्बन न्यूट्रल' बनाने के लिए पर्यावरण संरक्षण के लिए काम करने वाले संगठनों के संयुक्त सहयोग की सुविधा उपलब्ध कराता है। प्रयासों का उद्देश्य पेड़ लगाकर और ऊर्जा संरक्षण करके स्कूलों के कार्बन उत्सर्जन को बेअसर करना है।

Prakrati Mitra is a campaign which facilitates collaboration of organisations working for environment protection in ensuring that schools in Uttar Pradesh become ‘carbon neutral’. The efforts are aimed at neutralising the carbon emissions of the schools by planting trees and conserving energy.