Planting is the easy part. A sapling pushed into the ground and forgotten is not a tree — it is a photograph. What decides whether a drive becomes a grove is the two years of watering, guarding and replacing that nobody photographs.
That is why, across Gautam Buddha Nagar, Pahal's plantation drives end the same way: every sapling is handed to a specific person who agrees to look after it — a school child, a resident, a shopkeeper. In our 2026 school drive alone, close to 1,000 saplings went out across a dozen locations, each one now someone's responsibility.
The children make the best keepers. A student who has carried a neem or peepal home, watered it through a summer and watched it clear their own head-height does not need a lecture on the climate — they have grown one. Thousands of these small custodianships are how “Ek Paudha, Aapke Naam” keeps putting real trees into the district's soil.
₹50 plants one sapling with two years of care built in. If you would like a tree to carry your name — or someone else's — you can start one today.
For a family choosing between the month's food and the year's fees, a full set of notebooks can be the quiet difference between a child in school and a child at work.
Between residents and the officials who serve them, there is often no room where they simply talk. Our public-dialogue programmes are that room.
A simple idea on a public wall: leave what you can spare, take what you need. No forms, no questions, no queue of shame.
