Kanpur

In 2019, Shivraj Nishad from Shekhpur village in Kanpur left his job to start a small-scale business cultivating, harvesting, and dehydrating local flowers such as butterfly pea, rose, hibiscus, marigold, tulsi, jasmine, and chamomile. Utilising solar dryers, he expanded his venture, employing over 100 farmers and offering 15 varieties of dried flowers.

Nitin Kumar is a final-year law student who established Ek Nayee Raah Foundation, an NGO that caters to coaching children from low-income backgrounds for free.

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Melvano, an app developed by an ex-IIT graduate helps aspiring engineering students prepare better.

"Instead of measuring the performance of railways solely in terms of income they generated, we must also consider how we perform in taking care of people, particularly the vulnerable", says IRTS officer Sanjay Kumar. #Respect

Fondly known as Malik Bhai, the 29-year-old tea seller has been spending 80 per cent of his income to educate more than 40 underprivileged children since the last three years!

Within six months of volunteering at the NGO, Rachna stopped taking her depression pills, as she felt better both physically and emotionally.

Elvis Mascarenhas and Namrata Wittke blew through their emergency savings to participate in one of the biggest dance championships in the world. And they won - the kind of story dance films are made off!#MakingIndiaProud