Gujarat

With her sister Rekha, Neelam Parmar from Gujarat runs an NGO that cares for the food, education and accommodation needs of children with disabilities, who are often abandoned by their parents.

As the concept of farm-to-fork was penetrating metro cities, two CAs and one MBA grad came up with Farmse to Farmpe in Ahmedabad. Today, they are enabling healthier, organic lifestyle for their customers.

Move over, Barbie. A 78-year-old woman entrepreneur from Gujarat, Ranjanben Bhat makes stunning hand-crafted dolls from cloth that are inspired from India's diverse culture.

By switching to organic farming, Purushottam Sidhpara from Junagadh, Gujarat, cut down his input costs by 40% and water usage by 20% while earning export orders from 10 countries.

The carnelian bead industry in Khambhat exists even today and the town lives on to be one of the largest bead producing centres in the world.

Using a NASA technology, Gujarat's Jha family from has built a novel physiotherapy device that treats wounds, fractures and paraplegia in animals at a lesser cost and in lesser time.

Ratan Chaudhari, a primary Zilla Parishad school teacher in Surgana taluka of Maharashtra, is clearing misconceptions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among the villagers

Pune-based Aakansha Sadekar runs the Puroshottam Malati Foundation and has been feeding police personnel, sex workers, street dwellers and more in and around the city amid the second wave of coronavirus

Amit Doshi has innovated a rooftop rainwater harvesting filter called NeeRain, which has minimal maintenance costs and requires no manual intervention. To date, these devices have helped save 10 crore litres of water

Rajesh Shah loves Alphonso mangoes, and it is this love that stopped him from felling old trees planted by his grandfather. Instead, he used the 'girdling' technique that is quite popular with mango farmers in Gujarat.