In his campaign for environmental conservation and fight against single-use plastic, Brajesh Sharma, a 32 year-old man from Morena in Madhya Pradesh, has already clocked 36,000-odd km on his rugged bicycle. So far, he had covered nine states and it may take another four years for his “Bharat Paryatan” mission to cover the remaining states of the country.
Despite governments banning single-use plastic and local governments issuing orders in that regard, the ban has not completely come into effect at the ground-level, regretted Mr. Sharma, who reached Mangaluru a couple of days ago riding through National Highway 66 from Goa. Therefore, he chose to visit schools and explain to children the need for shunning single-use plastic as one of the means towards conserving the environment.
