Students for Last-Mile Learning 

When I started Students for Last Mile Learning in May 2025, it came from a clear realization. Access to education wasn’t the real issue. Learning was. In many underserved communities, students were in classrooms but still falling behind because foundational gaps were never addressed.

I wanted to work at that exact point. The last mile where students are present, but not progressing.

We partnered with the Ekal Abhiyan Foundation and focused on both access and quality. As Finance Head, I led outreach to companies with unallocated CSR funds, building a pipeline that could directly support rural single-teacher schools. It meant constant calls, negotiations, and refining strategy in real time, but it translated into tangible impact. We raised $185,000, supporting 550 schools and over 16,500 students. This effort earned us a Noble World Record for the largest fundraiser by high school students for tribal education.

But I didn’t want the work to stop at fundraising.

We worked directly with students through awareness campaigns in government schools, focusing on foundational literacy and numeracy. I also helped lead SolvED, a student hackathon designed to generate practical solutions for rural education, and Rooted in Culture, which highlighted the importance of preserving local identity alongside development. Our flagship event brought together justices, MLAs, and ministers, creating a space where student-led ideas were taken seriously at the highest levels

What this experience made clear to me is simple.

Educational inequality doesn’t fix itself. It requires deliberate, consistent intervention.

Students for Last Mile Learning wasn’t just about service. It was about responsibility. And for me, it proved that when you work with clarity and intent, even something as complex as the last mile can be made reachable.

Eco Reflect

On my way to school, I kept noticing the same thing.

Stray dogs and cattle injured on the side of the road. Sometimes after an accident, sometimes not even making it through one. It wasn’t rare, it was routine. And what stood out was how preventable it felt. Most of these accidents happened at night, on poorly lit roads where drivers simply couldn’t see animals in time.

So I started looking into existing solutions.

Reflective collars already existed, but they weren’t built for real conditions. They were expensive, relied on radium and plastic, and weren’t designed for scale. That meant they never reached the animals that actually needed them.

That’s where Eco Reflect began.

I built a collar from the ground up with one constraint: it had to scale. I replaced radium with eco-friendly polyester reflective fabric, reduced plastic usage significantly, and brought the cost down from ₹200 to ₹20.

But designing it was only part of the work.

I spent months testing materials, working with manufacturers, and refining prototypes to ensure durability, safety, and comfort. Then I moved to execution. With veterinarians, local teams, and volunteers, over 1,000 collars were deployed across Rajasthan’s most accident-prone areas.

That’s when the initiative moved beyond just me.

It was recognized by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji, who launched the project’s official poster, and supported at the administrative level by Secretary to the Govt. IAS Ravi Jain Ji. It also received formal backing from Animal Husbandry Minister Joraram Kumawat Ji, Women and Child Development Minister Manju Baghmar Ji, and Mayor of Greater Jaipur Somya Gurjar Ji, helping scale it from a student-led initiative to a government-supported model.

Eco Reflect is simple in principle. If visibility is the problem, then visibility is the solution.

And if that solution is affordable and scalable, it shouldn’t stay local. The goal now is to expand across India and beyond, turning something I noticed on my way to school into a system that prevents these accidents altogether.