Himanshu Nitnaware

Sudhanshu Kumar from Bihar has a fully automated farm with a wireless broadband connection, and incorporates scientific farming methods to grow a vast variety of fruit trees, including mangoes, lychees, jamuns, and dragonfruits. He earns around Rs 80 lakh a year

Ayushman Nayak, a Class VII student from KIIT International School, conceived the idea of a washing machine that could reduce water waste by recycling and re-purposing water using a 5-layer filtration system

Bengaluru fisherman Arokiyaswamy Shamanna built an innovative machine out of an old ambassador car engine to remove water hyacinth choking the Hebbal Lake. And it's already helping 100 families

Malik Aadil from Bandipora in Jammu & Kashmir quit his job in Bengaluru to launch Groxery, the Valley's first online store, which can deliver products to one's doorsteps within 70 minutes

Raj Seelam from Hyderabad founded Sresta Natural Bioproducts to encourage farmers to grow organic food, which he sells under the brand 24 Mantra to help customers lead more sustainable lives

Mukesh and Chandramouli Pandey from Uttar Pradesh formed the Navchetna Agro Centre Producer Company Limited to convert cattle waste across 21 villages into vermicompost, which they export to countries including Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Nepal

Medhavi Keerti, Range Forest Officer posted in Uttarakhand’s Badrigaad Range launched Dhatree, an initiative to train women in making and selling organic soaps, cutlery, rhododendron juice, and other such products. They now earn up to Rs 1 lakh

Sewaram, a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, started growing strawberries alongside his usual sugarcane farming by dividing his 1-acre land, and now earns upto Rs 20,000 a month

Brought together by agriculturist Varanashi Subraya Bhat, Areca nut farmers formed Campco in 1973 in Mangaluru, Karnataka, to protect themselves and cocoa growers from fluctuating market prices and exploitation at the hands of giant multinationals

Villagers of Vadner Bhairav, located near Nashik, banded together to save their village from a water shortage by building ponds and barrages, growing grapes, and incorporating sustainable methods of farming to mitigate the crisis