Two grade 11 students Yashmit Sutodia and Aayush Chowdhry of Jaipur House, The Doon School after learning about the project from the team leader Rajesh Majumdar approached him to join and contribute towards lighting a village named Than Gaon. They chose the village since it falls under the same gram sabha where Batoli is, a village lighted with LED bulbs earlier. It is an hour trek from Batoli. The students visited the village and met the villagers to know about their needs and conducted a survey. They found a need of 220 LED bulbs to be used in as many electric points in the household.

 

At Founder’s Day 2017 celebrations of The Doon School Yashmit and Aayush sold 222 LED bulbs to buyers with the intention of raising funds to distribute LED bulbs to 54 families at Than Gaon. They brought in an interesting innovation by colouring the bulbs using spray and made it attractive for the buyers. Six more junior students of grade 8, Arnav Chaudhary, Arav Dixit, Iman Chatterjee, Vinayak Gupta, Abhisar Sudhaakar and Rajveer Machere took up the challenge to make the bulbs. The raw material of the bulbs were ordered and the school Physics laboratory was used by students to make every single bulb. It was a huge task and under the guidance of Yashmit and Ayush all students worked for more than a month to make 220 LED bulbs. It was quite encouraging to see the sincere dedication of young students to make LED bulbs, raising funds to buy raw material for 220 more bulbs and making them to be distributed to villagers.

 

Now Yashmit and Aayush have taken the lead to motivate other schools in Dehradun to adopt other villages under the same Gram Sabha so as complete all eight villages in the first leg of the expansion of the project.