Jayant Manghnani, a class 11 student, and four of his friends launched SHUDH — an initiative to provide clean drinking water to the residents of Rasoolpura slum in Hyderabad. Having supplied water filters to a 100 families they aim to reach 1,000 more.
Sameera Jalan, a 16-year-old from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, founded PinThread, an initiative that teaches rural women and children of domestic help how to convert waste fabric into useful items like laptop covers, pencil cases and more.
Tanay Jain (15), a class 10 student from Kolkata started Katran Foundation that upcycles waste fabric from textile factories, provides employment to karigars, and donates clothes to underprivileged children.
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.
Cochin-based Sreehari Rajesh is a young filmmaker who has 6 short films to his credit and is now working on a full length feature film which he can enter into film festivals.
The Culinary Olympics is among the oldest, largest, and most diverse international culinary arts competitions in the world. Having begun in the 1900s, this competition, much like the Olympics, is conducted once every four years.
Neha Bhatt from Karnataka juggled her studies and farm experiments to develop a machine that won her The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Innovation award