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Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya, a 47-year-old Indian Railways engineer, recently won an award for his innovative idea of developing caterpillar trains -- a network of lightweight, elevated train coaches that will run at speeds up to 100 km/hr.

Alankrita Khera recently met a cab driver in Delhi who spoke to her about his journey. His touching life story and spirit to keep moving forward in the face of many hurdles are inspiring.

Harish Dhandev, a 24-year-old engineer, left his government job in 2013 and started aloe vera farming. Today, he is the owner of a company with a turnover in crores.

Meet Geet - an engineer with a doctorate in law who used to work in the US and quit her well-paying job to work with for the welfare of children living in slums in India. She is a dancer and an aspiring actress – and she is in a wheelchair.

Once mocked by his peers for not having arms, Ajay Kumar today dreams of becoming an engineer.

Meet Vinoth Kumar, an engineer with an MBA degree, who gave up his comfortable job and city life to become a full time organic farmer. He is also documenting traditional farming methods by reaching out to elderly farmers in India and other parts of Asia. This is his story.

An engineer's spontaneous action saved the lives of thousands of villagers in Gujarat, when a dam started overflowing because of heavy rains. He manually sealed the breach in the dam's protection wall along with the villagers. Here's more.