Eco-Friendly Products From Manipur

The brand name ‘Envi’, deals with products ranging from environmental pens with seeds, pencils, direct filling ball pens, paper bags, non-woven bags etc. Ngangom Monalisa Chanu, a 29-year-old young woman entrepreneur from Manipur, has brought in a new era of eco-friendly products in the form of environment-friendly pen and pencils under this brand name.

She got some knowledge about the environment like bag making, tree plantation etc when she was studying in Punjab University.  There she realized that pens can be made without any machinery and without any investment, so she started making handmade pen. Though the firm was incorporated in 2007, all the processes like GST compliance etc finished in March this year. After that it came in full swing and production of eco-friendly products started.

These pen and pencils can yield new plants of different species once they are discarded after use. While carving out pen and pencils of different colors and varieties, Chanu inserts seeds of different vegetables like radish, carrot, beet flowers, tomato, spinach etc in the products which after use could grow into a variety of plants.

She sells these pencils at Rs 5 and Rs. 10 for pen and so far she has been able to sell 10,000 pieces of pen which led to the increasing demand of her products.

 

Reference- Business Standard, Outlook