Himanshu Nitnaware

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

Jagdish Kudiyal from Dehradun worked relentlessly by planting thousands of trees to revive a dying spring and recharge the groundwater table

Bengaluru-based Aarti Rastogi, who suffers from 80% hearing loss, quit her job to start Artinci in 2019, which sells gluten-free, sugar-free, and keto-friendly desserts