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भारत की कहानी-
Positive Approach
Changing India
Learning to live with pandemic
AYUSH Kadha at tea stalls, traditional agriculture tools and making
decorative items from pine tree leaves are some of the innovative
ways of living against all odds
Kadha at Daman tea stalls Earning by selling agriculture tools
During COVID-19 pandemic,
many people lost their jobs.
Naresh Punkar, a carpenter
from Akola in Maharashtra, too
was rendered jobless during
lockdown. But it didn’t deter
him from pursuing his creative
skills. Thus, he started making traditional tools of
agriculture like bullock cart, small carts, sowing
machine, sickle and traditional lantern. People
In an effort to fight the Corona pandemic, started buying these tools from him. These tools
Damini Women Foundation of Daman made by Punkar during 50-days of lock down
& Diu came up with a novel idea to fight have now become source of his livelihood. n
Corona by providing training to tea sellers
to make AYUSH Kadha. Dreams of Divyang get wings
Daman is an industrial area with Now, differently abled
thousands of workers. The foundation persons are also contributing
decided to impart training to tea sellers towards Prime Minister
in the city to make Kadha so that people Narendra Modi’s call for
can get it at their work place. Kadha Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Cefe Elbe in Nahan in
is prepared with Basil, Ginger, Cloves, Himchal Pradesh is managed by five Divyang
Pepper etc. The foundation is also making youth. Sudarshana Devi, a Divyang woman
people aware about NaMo App, Aarogya of Rait village of Kangra is inspiring everybody
Setu App and website of the AYUSH by making several products from the leaves of
Ministry. Some of the tea stall owners Pine trees. She, started making Rakhis out of
have started selling AYUSH Kadha and Pine leaves. She has been making decorative
thousands are lining up for the immunizing items since 2007 but Start Up India scheme in
concoction. n 2018 gave wings to her dreams. n
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