An Environment Engineer is turning a nuisance weed to beautiful fusion sarees
An Environment Engineer is turning a nuisance weed to beautiful fusion sarees A life changing event can make you a better version of the identity we actually have, similar incident happened to an environment engineer Shri Gaurav Anand, a resident of Jharkhand. In 2018, he got an opportunity to be a part of a one-month-long Namami Gange mission to clean River Ganga, where he covered more than 1,500 km of the waterway. “After the mission, all team members went back to their respective work but he didn't, this was a life-changing expedition. He started dedicating every Sunday towards cleaning rivers. Jharkhand’s Gaurav Anand left his 16-year-long corporate career to make unique handloom sarees by extracting fibre from water hyacinths, a type of freshwater weed, while helping 450 women earn a livelihood. acting fibre from water hyacinths, a type of freshwater weed, while helping 450 women earn a livelihood. A nuisance for water bodies, water hyacinth is a freshwater weed with a massiv...