Category: E-INCLUSION, Winner 2011
TEXTBUK.IN
Original Title : Textbuk.in
Media Format : Internet
Website : www.textbuk.in
Producer : Quick Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd
Language : English
Location : Maharashtra, INDIA
Contact : sameer@textbuk.in
DESCRIPTION

TextbukTextbuk.in is India’s First Online Textbook Rental service. Its goal is to build awareness amongst the students that they can do their bit by recycling textbooks and in turn make India a greener place. In the process they also save money. Textbuk.in facilitates recycling of textbooks by planting a tree every time a student uses its service. The model works similar to a library where students/ customers rent textbooks for a limited period of time and return the books. Students rent the books online and people from Textbuk.in deliver and collect it from their homes. Traditionally textbooks are either purchased or sold to the second hand market or to the roadside Raddiwalas. Textbuk.in is trying to streamline this fragmented market and aligning it with a social responsibility model using technology.

EVALUATION
The Jury appreciated this novel green initiative and noted that till now Textbook.in have 369 customers and growing by each day. The delivery statistics is also impressive and till date this initiative has delivered over 1800 books and the Textbuk.in hopes to close current semester with about 15000 books which would amount to saving close to 45000 trees being felled to make these books. It was also noted that they have already planted close to 369 saplings along with their out partners and by 2015 they wish to plant 3 Million trees through this initiative alone. The Jury also appreciated their futuristic efforts to work towards crowd sourced model to build scale.
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