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’.

Scarcity of resources can lead to innovative ideas, as Roshan Jahan, a primary school teacher in rural Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh has demonstrated, as she successfully manages a multi-grade, multi-level classroom and keeps all her 55 students engaged.