Andhra Pradesh

Retired Brigadier P Ganesham travels across India to help identify over 200 grassroots innovators behind brilliant utilitarian devices that can help solve day-to-day issues. Watch this video to know more.

Quitting his corporate job, K V Rama Subba Reddy took up millet farming and launched Mibbles, a venture that sells healthy millet snacks. For his work, he is regarded as Andhra’s ‘Millet Man’.

T Jayalakshmi, a former teacher from Visakhapatnam makes edible tea cups using ragi and rice flour. Today, she manufactures around 30,000 to 40,000 cups per month.

Boycotted for marrying outside religion, Rajyalakshmi and SMD Khasim from Andhra Pradesh run an NGO called 'Manalo Manam' for underprivileged children, abandoned senior citizens and interfaith couples.

Visakhapatnam travelling couple Ravi Kishore Mallapragada and Sowdamini Mallapragada, aged 61 and 57, have visited more than 10 countries so far and have participated in multiple adventure sports.

Watch this video to see how Professor Srinivas Padakandla in Andhra Pradesh creates beautiful sculptures using automobile metal scraps.

Allaka Kedareswara Rao from Andhra Pradesh cleared his District Selection Committee exam in 1998 to become a government teacher, but had to wait for decades to achieve his dream. Here’s the story of how he finally achieved his victory.

Dharsan Challuru and Chandan Kagganapalli from Tirupati launched Ecofinix to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich manure. Here’s how they do it.

Nishanth Reddy from Andhra Pradesh employed Biofloc technology for shrimp cultivation which converts excreta into feed to get 30 times more yield.

Chennai-based Anilkumar SG runs Samunnati that provides financial services, the right markets and institutional building for farmer producer organisations (FPOs).