He plants the seeds of hope in their lives

No, he''s not a godman; neither does he intend being labelled as one. His sole mission in life is to empower the masses — especially the unemployed youth in the rural areas of the state — with a scientific temper and easy-to-use technology in the agricultural sector, so that they can earn a living for themselves and lead respectable lives, instead of indulging in gambling, drinking and other criminal activities.
A social scientist in the real sense of the term, Dr BK Dwivedi has so far helped hundreds of youth in and around Allahabad, by imparting training on soil testing, cultivation of ornamental plants, and aquaculture."These youth become resource persons in their respective areas and spread the message, thus enabling others to benefit," he states. "When I started out, initially, I began with some youth who were distraught with life in Kasari Masari," he says. "They were involved in gambling, drinking, arson and violence just because they did not have anything constructive to do". After initial reluctance the youth decided to follow Dwivedi''s instruction and presently the entire village community is earning a respectable amount while the local police too is happy with the turn of events.
Dwivedi handed over Crochia seeds to them and provided them with small polythene packets. Their job was to sow the seeds in the mud-filled polythene packets and water the packets everyday till the seeds germinated.
Thereafter, their job was to bring back the saplings to Dwivedi''s Bioved Research Centre at Chaitham Lines and take home a handsome amount as pay. "They were paid four to five rupees per sapling," says Dwivedi. The experiment yeilded astounding results and as a fall-out of it, similar schemes were run in the far-flung areas of Karchana, Shankargarh and Meja". As of today, several households have benefitted from this novel idea, wherein neither any investment nor extra manpower has been required.
Dwivedi has also helped rural youth in establishing hatcheries and nurseries, apart from providing them with a soil testing kit for visiting remote villages to test the pH value of the soil prior to the tilling of land and planting of crops. He also imparts free training to the youth for a basic knowhow on how to conduct the simple test. "Earlier, villagers had to traverse long distances to have the simple test conducted at the mandi parishad, not to mention the monetary aspect involved," he recounted. Presently, the youth armed with the testing kit personally visit the villages and charge as little as Rs 25 for providing them with the results instantly.
Dwivedi, while attributing the success of the endeavours to the ‘will'' of the Aalmighty, humbly resolves to continue his work single-handedly, and prove to the world that mere hi-tech measures can do no good unless they reach the real end-user, who puts such methods to practical use.