Age is no bar if you want to achieve or do something for society. And Shravya Mallavarapu believes in this. What else would you say about a girl who's a good student, a painter, a singer and more than everything else a staunch environmentalist.

A student of

, this Std. IX girl heads the National Green Corps (NGC) at her school and is an active member of Friendship Foundation, a NGO that works towards creating awareness about protecting the environment. Not only that, she's a life member of the Blue Cross, Kids for Tigers and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as well.

Recognising her achievement, Shravya has been nominated to the top three finalists in the leader category, in the age group of 6 to 16, for POGO channel's Amazing Kids Award 2006. What makes this occasion even more special is the fact that she is the only one from

to make it.

As a part of United Nations Environmental Project (UNEP) she created an artificial scrub forest, to show that it's possible and also very helpful for the surrounding areas, on a plot of land in Vikarabad, near Miyapur and even went to the

and Japan to present it at various international conferences.

She loves to read books on animal and environment and that is when she is not chatting away with her friends online or not attending her tuition and Carnatic music classes. “I was learning karate, but stopped it due to lack of time” says the soft-spoken girl, who has already started preparing for her IIT-JEE. "I want to get into IIT-Roorkee, as it has a Himalayan Explorer Club," says this trekking freak.