Conservation

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

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

Ajay Sharma, founder of Sewa Welfare Society, has introduced check dams made using gunny bags, in Khunti district of Jharkhand

M Suraj from Chhattisgarh, along with the state forest department and NGOs confiscated over 150 animal traps from Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve to save wild cats

It took Garima Bharadwaj and Gaurav Bali almost two years to come up with an integrated Building Intelligence Operating System (BIOS) — a wireless, energy-efficient device. Here's why they came up with their Mumbai-based startup Enlite Research.

Sarojini Goyal, from Chhattisgarh, trains women to grow conserve traditional medicinal plants like Brahmi, Giloy, Ashwagandha, Neem, Shatavari and other species for traditional healers

P Sivakumar, field director at Kaziranga national park created six wetlands to help wildlife access water and reduce man-animal conflict

Wildlife conservationist Parag Deka has spent the past 23 years bringing back the pygmy hog from near-extinction.

IAS D. Krishna Bhaskar from Rajanna-Sircilla district of Telangana undertook various water conservation measures to make the region drought-free

Madhu Vajrakarur, a 23-year-old electrical engineering student from Andhra Pradesh has built a two-in-one wind turbine that can generate electricity and clean drinking water.