Two major events in India that saved a lot of Trees

The two events in India has really saved paper in tons and eventually Trees ( no exaggeration :))

1. IRCTC allowing sms to be treated as valid ticket
2. Income Tax e-filling e-verification for tax payers having tax amount less than 5 lac.


Indian trains are the most crowded and you don't get a reservation if you don't book in time. Earlier, you had to worry of taking a print out and boarding the train, but about a year ago, It was announced(it was planned in 2012) that SMS simply can be used as ticket.

From June 2015, income tax department has provided a e-verification way for the ITR filled. You can select netbanking and e-verify from the netbanking account if you have one. Earlier, one had to fill the form, upload it, get the printout of acknowledgment and send it by post Bengaluru. But now it's just a 2 min click thing. The fact that it's applicable to only those people who have tax amount less than 5 lac, doesn't diminish the saved papers number, since there are about all the middle class people who fall in this category, and the number is in millions.