Himanshu Nitnaware

After the 2019 cloudburst, schools across Vadodara began facing an acute water shortage. District Collector Shalini Agarwal quickly set up cost-effective rainwater harvesting systems across the area so schools could meet their water requirements for the next four years

Retired banker S Venkateswara Reddy from Hyderabad has helped 30 farmers in his drought-hit ancestral village grow brinjal, onion, guava, okra, cotton, groundnut and more

Premsagar Mestri founded the Society of Eco-Endangered Species Conservation And Protection (SEESCAP), an NGO protect vultures, as well as their habitat and food sources in Maharashtra and other regions where their population was rapidly declining

IIT-Madras incubated startup Samudhyoga Waste Chakra has developed the EcoFert, a technology to convert 1,000 litres of urine into 850 litres of water to repurpose for use in toilets and while gardening

Karnataka-based Mayank Tiwari launched ReshaMandi, an agri-tech startup to help silk farmers improve the quality of silk and increase their own income using technological interventions

Ratan Lal Daga from Bhansar Kutari village in Rajasthan adopted organic farming techniques to grow mango, lemon, pomegranate, lentils, wheat, bajra and other crops

Chartered accountant Pratik Ghoda from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, quit his job after 14 years to launch Bee Base Pvt Ltd, which also works for the conservation of bees

Manish Pandey from Chhattisgarh is a paralympic champion who has won several medals at both national and international competitions, including the Asian Games and the Asian Paralympic Games Incheon held in South Korea. He talks about his journey thus far, and the challenges he overcame to reach this feat

The Better India's very own staff member, Sanchari Pal, currently in West Bengal tending to her ailing father, narrates her quest for the much coveted Remdesivir drug to treat her ailing father and the events that transpired

The sunflower farm set up by Deepak Goyal, Director of the Imperial College in Bargarh, Odisha, is enjoyed by students and staff alike. But setting up the farm took immense efforts on the academician's part