young innovator

Mark your calendar: 18 September, 6 pm — The Better India Showcase 2025. Streaming the next day on digital platforms, free and open to all, as India’s changemakers take the stage.

Faced with crop spoilage in his village, 26-year-old Swuyievezo Dzudo used his science background to build a solar dryer that costs Rs 7,000. Now used by over 500 farmers in Nagaland, his invention is saving crops, boosting incomes, and earning national recognition.

Student Shiv Kampani from Mumbai has innovated a robotic brush to clean out human waste from drains, pipes and sewers in a bid to bring manual scavenging to an end.

Navshri Thakur, a student of Girls' High School, Pipariya in Madhya Pradesh, has innovated a device that can be used to simplify household chores and save time.

Nikhiya Samsher (18), a graduate of Greenwood High International School in Bengaluru has innovated an low-cost, early risk detection system for oral cancer.

Ayushman Nayak, a Class VII student from KIIT International School, conceived the idea of a washing machine that could reduce water waste by recycling and re-purposing water using a 5-layer filtration system

Srija A, a class 9 student of the Zilla Parishad High School in Chintalkunta, Gadwal district, Telangana, has come up with a sustainable solution of biodegradable pots made from groundnut shells that decompose in 20 days or less.

In 2019, 14-year-old Rishabh Prashobh from Bengaluru convinced two hotels, a school and his apartment society to instal aerators in water taps.

Vinisha Umashankar, a class 8 student from Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu has designed an award-winning solar ironing cart to reduce the use of charcoal.

17-year-old Ashok Gorre, a resident of Suryapet District, Telangana has invented low-cost tools that can make agricultural work such as sowing, reaping, and weeding easy.