Himanshu Nitnaware

Prabhat Saxena from Uttar Pradesh started his NGO, Srijan Ek Soch, in 2015 to help underprivileged students seek the same quality education and holistic development that one finds in schools in urban areas

Sagar Pradhan from Odisha is an author and software engineer, who has been using the royalty money he has earned from his written work to plant thousands of trees and revive ponds

Mumbai's Dheeraj Gupta shares how he rebranded vada pav to script the incredible 'Make In India' success story behind Jumboking

Shankar Jaat from Salera village in Rajasthan grew the '1057 variety' of tomato using drip and mulching techniques increase both his harvest and income. He was trained by the Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) Research Foundation

Abhimanyu and Vardan Rathi from Surat, Gujarat, launched Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India (SLII) to sell their innovation, a water purifier made from graphene and recycled cell phone screens

Meghana Musunuri, founder and director of Fountainhead School in Hyderabad, worked with 100 students to revive Meedi Kunta Lake in the city to teach them about environment conservation

Prakash Chandra Dehuri from Budhdani village in Odisha turned to banana planting after he was unable to find a job in his village

Bijay Kumar Kabi, director at Action for Protection of Wild Animals in Odisha planted a mangrove forest to prevent Badakot village from being eroded by cyclones

Pankaj Nerurkar from Mumbai was forced to shut his restaurant due to the lockdown. He then started Nano Food, a street side stall in a car where he sells authentic Malvani cuisine

Ankit Nagwanshi from Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, quit his IT job in Mumbai to start Engineer Chaiwala in 2020