Himanshu Nitnaware

It is because of the efforts taken by the divisional forest officer Pradeep Mirase of Malkangiri forest in Odisha that the fire incidents have drastically reduced from 2,152 cases to 288 in just two years

Professor Urbasi Sinha at the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru has successfully established safe and secure quantum communication that cannot be decoded by a third party

Kanak Lata from Vittalpur, Uttar Pradesh, grows Durg and Aryaman varieties of tomatoes that are now a hit with the locals and foreigners. She now expects a profit of Rs 2.5 lakhs from the sale of her organic produce

Javid Parsa runs Parsa's, a restaurant chain that has 27 outlets across Kashmir, Noida, Bengaluru and Ladakh. This chain has helped hundreds deal with crises including the Kashmir floods, the blackout in the valley, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Barath Jaiyanth, a former actor from Chennai, quit the film industry to launched the Tickle Truck, an ice cream food truck that sells unique flavours such as sugarcane, jamun, boondi buttermilk, strawberry, gajar halwa, and mojito

Shashank Moddhia from Mumbai launched The Renal Project in 2019 to offer affordable treatment for patients of kidney disease in Tier II and Tier III cities

Aparna Krishnan helped women of Paalaguttapalle, a drought-hit village in Andhra Pradesh, stitch cloth bags after men in the area found it difficult to gain employment as labourers

Momee Pegu, from Majuli, Assam, started RIGBO in 2015, and has trained women in her village in how to convert 11,000 kg of water hyacinth into organic compost

Noida-based urban gardener Harpreet Singh Ahluwalia grows 75 varieties of vegetables through the year, on her terrace. She walks through the process, step by step

Telangana farmer Chintala Venkat Reddy has innovated a rice and wheat variety that is infused with vitamin D, for which he won an international patent from WIPO