Maharashtra

All sourcing is volunteer-based. The cost of the initial 15 days or so was borne by Wadhwa and his friends. But as the operation grew, various communities and volunteers were more than willing to help out.

Mayank Gupta and Lalit Jhawar started LandCraft Agro in 2019 to grow 40 varieties of exotic vegetables. They now make a turnover of Rs 80 Lakh a month

Owing to the lockdown, a financially-strapped auto rickshaw driver in Pune had almost given up on life when people helped change his fate

In an effort to popularise the cultivation of the fruit in Maharashtra, Desai has raised a nursery as well.

After repeated failures, Rahul Deo from Pune flew to Japan twice to learn baking soft, fresh Japanese bread and open 'Tokyo Bakery'

Against family’s resistance, Samir Dombe from Daund quit his corporate job to grow figs and sell processed fruit to the supermarkets and metro cities

Through his NGO Save Life Foundation, Piyush Tewari introduced multiple interventions on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway to prevent 7,000 crashes alone in 2019

The online application for the position of senior research fellow at IISER, Pune closes on December 6

Yogesh Chavan, an HR professional in Pune, took up water conservation efforts in his native Dahigaon village to recharge groundwater table and make village water tanker-free

Relu Vasave, an Anganwadi worker from Nandurbar, Maharashtra, rows 14 kms on the Narmada to the remotest parts of her village to provide nutrition and supplements to expecting mothers and newborns