As the destitute across India struggled to get basic food and health services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IAS officer S Seeram Sambasiva Rao provided homes, skill training and jobs to 1500 of them.
COVID-19 Rights India is an online platform started by Delhi-based Sharon Mathew that can help address citizens' legal issues, and also has resources relating to various rights that people should be aware of amid the pandemic.
Troubled by the large scale unemployment during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020, Amar Prajapati a class 8 student in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, started Jeevan Prakash, an LED bulb manufacturing company.
When IFS Vikas Ujjawal was posted in Jahrkhand’s Lohardaga Forest Division, the region was plagued with illegal tree felling and forest fires. Here’s how he increased green cover, generated employment for locals and boosted ecotourism.
Newton School, a Bengaluru-based edtech startup, allows students to cross financial and locational barriers to achieve their dream of becoming software developers.
Radha Daga’s Triguni Eze Eats, a ready-to-eat packaged food company was built a decade ago out of sheer passion and her desire to work in the food industry.
Seth Walchand Hirachand Doshi started Ravalgaon confectioneries (Pan Pasand, Mango Mood and more) after he brought a sugarcane revolution to Maharashtra’s barren lands and started one of the first sugar mills in India
Other than this, his organisation is installing unique, innovative toilets in rural India. Installed at 50 places, these toilets are made of fiberglass discarded by the windmill industry -- killing two birds with one stone. Find out how.