Cleaning river Ganga is no simple task and has been the objective of many activists, environmentalists and politicians. Amid various attempts and campaigns, here's how three upcoming startups founded by young innovative Indians are working to clean up India's national river.
Aside from providing technological assistance to the farmers in Telangana, the start-up called Agrowbook is also helping two young people from a small village to set up a business of gooseberry candies.
Trishla Surana’s footwear brand Colour Me Mad makes customised shoes and is introducing, for the first time in India, footwear made using cork, which is helpful in improving body posture and reducing knee and ankle pain.
Reema Sathe founded Happy Roots, a food company that manufactures healthy, and preservative-free snack food using local ingredients, with raw material sourced from small and tribal farmers.
In 2011, 23-year-old Hrishikesh Datar founded a startup, Vakilsearch, that helped the common man as well as corporate groups solve legal troubles using technology.
IIT Bombay's Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) in Mumbai and Global Venture Alliance (GVA) in Moscow are partnering to run a bilateral Entrepreneur Exchange Programme- "India Russia Bridge for Innovations (IRBI)". This is a press release by the organisers.