This IFS Officer's Unique Visiting Card Grows Into A Basil Plant; People Laud The 'Green' Idea
The idea in itself has earned a lot of appreciation and as well inspired many to make this initiative a permanent method to be used.
IFS officer Parveen Kaswan is earning plaudits online and rightly so. He shared a photo of his personal visiting card and mentioned once planted, the visiting card grows into a bright basil plant.
Twitter Praveen Kaswan
IFS officer Kaswan shared a photo of his personal visiting card that will grow into a plant if buried into soil. The idea in itself has earned a lot of appreciation and as well inspired many to make this initiative a permanent method to be used.
He shared the image of his card on his official Twitter account.
So now anybody coming to my office is getting this. This card when planted grows into a bright basal plant. Thanks @WildLense_India. pic.twitter.com/xL9xgPCbbF
¡ª Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) September 1, 2020
¡°So, now anybody coming to my office is getting this. This card when planted grows into a bright basil plant,¡± Kaswan wrote on Twitter describing it as ¡°as a parting gift¡±. He efficiently explained that the card wasn't made with the idea of sharing contact details but it was on purpose developed for encouraging people to plant this card.
No. This has no details on it. I don¡¯t share contact number also. That was done for this purpose only. It¡¯s just for the person as a parting gift. And telling them that you need to plant this card at your home. The work is done.
¡ª Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) September 1, 2020
Many professionals on the social media platform applauded his idea and said they¡¯d adopt the eco-friendly idea while others also suggested using methods on birthday and wedding cards as well which are often disposed of. Some more ideas were to use the same into pamphlets to price tag cards to ¡°initiate the habit of planting saplings¡±.
Netizens were full of praise for the officer
Great idea! However there is a catch. The card will mostly get into a card holder and may never get planted. When we value the person, we also value his/her visiting card. The card should ideally have a tear off section containing the seeds.
¡ª ? ???????? ???? ?? Rising Bharat ? (@ghoshpp1) September 1, 2020
Agree visiting cards are getting vanish I also had experience though his initiative is good.
¡ª bakul desai (@bullbakul) September 2, 2020
U made the headline sir.
¡ª Himanshu Carpenter (@hi_man24) September 3, 2020
Going to write this as an example in Ethics paper.
Civil Servant - Changemaker.? pic.twitter.com/9dWO4ZPZ1Q
I have one Basil plant in my pot.......But this is Incredible , how does it work..... Fantastic innovation, if all the paper used is loaded with this technology , can't imagine how greener the surroundings would be....
¡ª ?? Jai Hind SINGH ?? (@R_INDIAN_) September 1, 2020
Definitely Needs Promotion...??@hvgoenka @anandmahindra
At times when our resources are getting depleted at an alarming level, such green initiatives will surely help minimise the environmental damages we all have caused.
