Himanshu Nitnaware

Magan Kamariya, a farmer from Gujarat’s Morbi village was struggling to sustain his family till jumbo guavas came to his rescue. Weighing about 1.5 Kg each, they helped him earn Rs 20 lakh in a year

Sanjay Pathak, a government school teacher from Laxmipur village in Bihar, runs the Rani Laxmibai Sports Academy, where he currently trains around 55 young girls from his village. All free of cost

During the COVID-19 lockdown, Dharambir Kamboj, a farmer from Damla village in Haryana, built a corn extractor machine that processes the produce into milk. This product can be used to substitute regular milk in food and drinks such as tea and gajar halwa

IAS officer Rajat Bansal, former district collector of Dhamtari, helped Jabarra village understand the importance of community forest rights over 5,352 hectares. By roping in stakeholders, he has transformed this tiny tribal hamlet into an eco-tourism wellness hub, which sees tourists from all over the world, including Poland, US, Australia, and Japan

Ganga Rajput from Chaudhury Khera village in Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh rallied the women in her community to revive the 1,000-year-old Baba Talab with the help of NGO Parmath Samaj Sevi Sanstha

Vaibhav Agrawal, from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, launched The Kiryana Store Company that improvises small-time grocery stores to help them compete with retail giants. Here's how

As a divisional forest officer, Sasmita Lenka from Odisha helped bust an international network of pangolin smugglers in Athagarh and Khunnpunni. Despite death threats and resistance from those in power, she took action against 36 smugglers and rescued five pangolins

Urban gardener Brahmadev Kumar of Gorakhpur shares his step-by-step process to make compost from used tea powder

In a bid to help her uncle, who is battling Parkinson's disease, 14-year-old Jui Keskar from Pune has developed the JTremor-3D device, which helps measure tremors in patients and sends the data to the doctors through a Cloud database. This in turn helps the latter prescribe adequate medication. She has won accolades for this endeavor, including the Broadcom-IRIS Grand Award 2020-21 from the Central government

Today, Rajshekhar Patil, who hails from Nipani village in Osmanabad, is a successful bamboo farmer. But his story was not always the same. Over 23 years, he worked hard to remove himself from crushing debt left behind by a paralysed father and today, earns around Rs 1 crore by growing around 50 varieties of bamboo on his farm. He has also worked to make his village drought-free