Innovation

This vacuum cleaner is 7-meters (23 feet) tall and uses patented positive ionisation technology to produce smog-free air in public spaces, allowing people to breathe clean air.

“People who contacted us had so many queries. They wanted to know if the frames would be light, or even water resistant.”

The government can help remove bottlenecks and create an ecosystem that fosters innovation in India

Promoting and making such innovative projects accessible to the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population, NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF), a ‘Tech for Good’ platform, is bridging the gap and fostering inclusive growth.

A compulsive innovator, Vivek Mundkur’s latest innovation of a solar water pump is changing the lives of farmers who live in water-deficient areas. Affordable, portable and energy efficient - his water pump is helping farmers earn more from their land.

The researchers at IIT Roorkie are conducting in-depth research on the drug piperazine, and have discovered its anti-viral properties could be used to tackle the disease.

The idea was envisioned by V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, who is a faculty at Computational Neuroscience lab of Department of Biotechnology, three years ago.

While the body of the pen is built from plantain leaf, papaya leaf stem, coconut leaf and castor stem, a nib is fixed at one end of the stem. The other end is sealed using maida starch which holds the ink.

The idea took inception as a design solution for the workers at the factory of Deki Electronics in Uttar Pradesh, where scorching heat released from the Genset at the entrance in the external area of the factory, was taking a toll on the health of the employees and reducing productivity.

Padgilwar Corporation successfully innovated a small-scale rice mill that can be transported easily from village to village, and run on basic electricity.