India's first female civil engineer, Shakuntala A Bhagat, pioneered many innovative designs and founded Quadricon — a Mumbai-based construction firm that's designed 200 bridges across the world, including UK, USA and Germany.
Arjun Santhosh is a 14-year-old resident of Perumbalam, an island in the Vembanad lake of Kerala, swam three kilometres to his school for 10 days to protest and demand the construction of a bridge connecting his island to the mainland.