Karnataka

Sabiha Hashmi is a retired teacher from Gurugram who has been teaching underprivileged girls in the Jyothipalaya village of Karnataka for free.

In association with farmer producer organisations (FPOs), civil society and NGOs, Safe Harvest works with 100,000 small and marginal farmers who don't use chemical pesticides to grow organic produce.

Girish Bharadwaj, a mechanical engineer from Karnataka has gone on to earn the title of Bridgeman on India after building 147 suspension bridges across the country. Find out more about this ingenious India here.

Rajesh Krishna K, a 16-year-old student in Karnataka, innovated a special machine in 2015 which aids in systematic sowing of seeds, ploughing of land, irrigation and helps farmers yield an increased output.

A N Varghese is a social activist and once a victim of child labour who is now helping other children fight the evil practice in Chikmagalur's coffee plantations through his NGO, Vikasana.

Moryar Gudda or ‘Hill of the Dwarfs’ in Hire Benakal village of Karnataka is not just one of India’s largest necropolises, it is also one of the oldest megalithic sites in the world.

Hari Prakash, an urban gardener from Karnataka's Udupi, has been growing enough organic okra at home to serve the daily needs of his four-member family for the last 11 years

T Bhoobalan, CEO of Bagalkot Zilla Parishad in Karnataka, adopted a multi-pronged approach to tackle the sharp increase in child marriages amid the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.

K A Ponnanna from Karnataka joined IISc as a security guard, but began serving as a field assistant at the Centre for Ecological Sciences and helped mentor students in handling bees and collecting samples for research

Binu Verma and Ramesh Balasundaram founded Bal Utsav, a non-profit working towards transforming Karnataka's government schools, in 2009.