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Rohit Mehra is an IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officer of 2004 batch and is a Joint/ Additional Commissioner in Income Tax Department. He was born on 25 May 1977 and hails from Amritsar. He is known as Green-Officer and Green-man of Punjab for his environment-friendly steps. He is also known as the father of Vertical-gardens in India. He has created more than 500 verticle gardens in various cities of Indian. This includes vertical-gardens with plastic bottles at Amritsar, Jullunder, Bhatinda, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Surat, Delhi, Gurgaon, Kanpur, Jammu, Baroda, etc, All his vertical gardens are made of waste plastic bottles.[1] He is the man behind the first vertical garden in the railway-station in Ludhiana.[2] He also holds a Limca Book Of Record for the largest vertical garden in Indian which is at Income-Tax Ofiice in Ludhiana. He has also created more than 30 Micro-jungles in India on the principles of Vrikshayurveda and Miyawaki.[3] Also, he is known as Seed-Ball Man of India. He has used seed-balls in which seeds are wrapped in clay with some nutrients and used this as a method of large scale plantation. He has used this technique of seed-balls and has got created more than 20 lakh seed balls. He has also tutored more than 1 lakh students as to how to make seed-balls.[4] He has planted more than 7 lakh sapling and trees. He has also created one of the largest vertical gardens in the Golden Temple in Amritsar. He has also led a green-revolution wherein ancient Indian trees of Panchvati (five trees namely Amla, Bael, Banyan, Ashoka, and Peepal ) are planted. He has been invited for lectures in various schools, colleges, IITs, IIMs, and industrial-houses. He also writes a blog by the title Design Your Destiny. He has also written a book by the name Super-Child which is a book on parenting.[5]