Raj Kanwar Yadav

Raj Yadav, Hari Chandana, Ashish Singh, and Avnish Sharan | By special arrangement | ThePrint Text Size: New Delhi: Hari Chandana Dasari, zonal commissioner, Hyderabad, is a recycling crusader. From beautifying over 120 parks in the city with discarded plastic bottles to making furniture out of used tyres and oil drums, Dasari has been showing the way in waste management. “I noticed that some unused tyres are lying in the municipal corporation’s office. I got them cleaned and painted.

Traffic-related pollution was the prime reason, causing asthma among 350,000 children in India in 2015, says a Lancet report released recently. India emerged second after China that was badly hit by the disease due to pollutants, said the study which analysed 194 countries and 125 major cities across the globe.

Toddlers are notoriously known for being fussy eaters, and often refuse to eat food that their parents make for them. They often find a way to nibble on certain foods items that could be raw, unclean, and undercooked. Sometimes the Gastrointestinal Tract of a young child is not fully developed to resist certain bacteria present in food. It is easy for them to develop the stomach bug known as Viral Gastroenteritis, or fall prey to food poisoning.