Overview

• Ravindra Khebudkar asked visitors to bring bouquets of notebooks instead of flowers at official occasions.
• About 2,000 notebooks have been collected and distributed since he took charge in February.
• Recent distributions included the Nagya Mahadu residential hostel for Katkari children in Bambarde village, Kudal tehsil.
• The approach preserves the greeting custom while channeling resources to students who lack basic supplies.
• Khebudkar cited a previous effort in Sangli-Miraj that gathered nearly 30,000 notebooks during his tenure there.