National Innovation Foundation

Meet brothers Refaz and Ishfaq Wani from Kashmir, who have more than 30 innovations to their name and mutliple national and international awards for their creative work, as well as a stamp of approval from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Dharambir Kamboj was a cycle rickshaw puller working on the streets of Delhi. Today the 58-year-old from Damla village in Yamunanagar district, Haryana, is a farmer, rural innovator and entrepreneur. In 2013, he even received a National Award from the President of India.

Sandip Ghole from Daund in Maharashtra experimented with the Fursungi onion for eight years to develop his own variety — Sandip Pyaaz, which has a longer shelf life

Amidst a paucity of funds and able to experiment just once a year, Dilip Baral, in Odisha, covered a tiring seven year journey to conceive a seed extractor machine for tomato and brinjal

From a device that saves people from electrocution to turning discarded matchboxes into radios, Rishikesh CS is truly a master of innovations!

Did you know that Haldi has been used in India for more than 4,000 years? Not just that, our country produces almost all of the world’s Haldi.

Innovation is a term which is rarely associated with vegetables, fruits or spices. Interestingly, there are scores of unlettered farmers who have been ingenious enough to develop crop varieties, which besides being high-yielding, are pest-resistant and can be grown in a non-traditional environment.

Arul Srivastva is a student of Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School located in the IIT Madras campus.

Nath competed with over 20 innovators at the two-day 'Innovation Festival' in Guwahati, held by Indian Council for Science Museum in association with the National Innovation Foundation.

Sikanto came up with the idea of creating a manual waste lifting and dumping device as an innovative alternative to not only help his friends clean up the school premises better, but also make the task at hand something they looked forward to, every day.