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Meet the student innovators transforming lives with five tech-driven solutions, from AI-powered farming tools to eco-friendly cooling devices.

K A B Menon launched Aravind Automobiles, under which he made the Aravind Baby Model 3, the country's first Made in India car, which his grandson is now looking to revive.

From providing over 50,000 meals to the needy to designing low-cost medical solutions, the initiative has over 1000 volunteers fulfilling different responsibilities to tackle COVID-19 in India.

From filing a petition against pollution-causing nations, inventing a landslide detection device, raising lakhs for the elderly, helping farmers increase their income to giving a dignified life to ragpickers, here are 10 youngsters who are shaping a better future.

At just 13, Assam's Nikhilesh Das from Assam came up with an ingenious way of using human hair to clean polluting oil spills. Check out four other innovations that are just as brilliant! #WaterActionDecade #Innovation

"Who better to understand the issues of a farmer than a farmer himself,” says Narayan, who has developed several 'jugaad' tactics to make farming less cumbersome and more profitable!

But this is not the only feather in Akhtar Ali's cap, a mechanic for over 40 years now!

"We felt that their work was phenomenal, and yet, they remained invisible.”

Made from 80% recyclable material and designed to water plants for as long as two weeks, the scalable device costs just Rs 700! #Innovation #Gardening

From a magnetic shirt for the disabled, an upcycled wash basin to a solar-powered cooling helmet, school children aged between 10-14 tap their creative side and design unique inventions in Hyderabad