Himanshu Nitnaware

Arvind Mishra, from Bhagalpur of Bihar, formed the Mandar Nature Club to save the Great Adjutant Stork from near extinction and created a safe habitat for the species with the help of locals

Through 'Shireen-E-Yemberzal - Mithai Wagon', Rida Sajad makes sweets using dry fruits, without any additional sugar, caramel, honey or jaggery. She receives orders from all over India, and her sweets are equal parts healthy and delicious

Savita Labhade from Nashik only found out about the debt her husband was under a year after he died. For six years since then, she worked hard to find different ways to earn a living and finance her children’s education, by starting a spice business, and opening Sadhana General Store

Sumit Sheoran and Sudhanshu Rai launched Fyllo, a Bengaluru-based Agritech startup in an effort to solve the major problems that plagued farmers. Their device, integrating software and hardware, helps sense and analyse real-time data of crops and predict diseases

In the 80s, Pune-based Jayant Barve’s business of manufacturing and selling chemical fertilisers was thriving. Today, he has switched to producing organic manure through his venture, Nature Care Fertilizer, which is also in demand in Kenya and Namibia

Mumbai-based Sandeep Singh and Nikki Arora Singh’s Blue Tribe Foods makes plant-based ‘chicken’ nuggets that replicate the taste, texture, and visual appeal of real chicken nuggets

Through his venture Regional Low Energy Environment-Friendly, Mysuru-based architect Rajesh Kumar Jain reuses construction debris left behind in cities and on riverbeds to make sustainable and zero waste homes that are just as durable as cement structures. Since 2005, he has made 175 such homes

At Pune’s La Kheer Deli, Shivang and Shivika Sood combine their mother Sonia’s traditional recipe of kheer with a pudding like consistency, and offer a variety of flavours such as nutella, brownie, chocolate, oreo, and gulkand

Suresh Lakhavath (33), Joint Commissioner of the Income Tax Department, helped build a 3-km road in the Sarvapuram hamlet of Andhra Pradesh, where he is from. With his efforts, the village now has an RO water supply scheme, LED street lights, libraries and a school

Shraddha Dhawan from Nighoj village in Ahmednagar scaled the family dairy business, selling 450 litres of milk from milking 80 buffaloes in a two-storey cattle shed