Telangana

With an aim to break the gender imbalance in the transport sector, Jai Bharathi started MOWO Social Initiatives, a venture that trains women in driving for free and has helped several get subsequent jobs.

With 100 professionals and 1,000 workers, Kalpana Ramesh cleaned and de-silted 2000 tonnes of waste from the 400-year-old Bansilalpet Stepwell in Secunderabad.

In a village in Telangana lies a 70-acre forest teeming with lakhs of fruit-bearing trees and 13 ponds. The sole guardian of this land, Dusharla Satyanarayana, has been cultivating this ecosystem on his ancestral land for decades

Dr Prakash Venjamuri runs Hyderabad-based Andari Illu to show how simple acts of kindness can go a long way -- he allows free access to shelter, food, clothes, books, and more to whoever needs it

For two decades, Telangana's Veer Shetty Biradar -- the founder of SS Bhavani Foods -- has been making millets like sorghum, bajra, foxtail millet and finger millet accessible to the masses.

Raju Mupparapu from Telangana has innovated a device that can cut down electricity bills by up to 30%, helping several villages in his state. Watch his story here.

Madhulika Choudhary, through her NGO Dhruvansh, restored the choking Ibrahim Cheruvu wetland in Hyderabad to its days of glory

Sai Sowjanya Vasa from Hyderabad quit her engineering job to take care of her son after he was diagnosed with speech delay, and today is a special ed teacher in a school, preventing other children from missing out on a good education due to their disability

Nanda Kishore Reddy, a former techie with an IT company in Hyderabad, left his steady job at the start of COVID-19 pandemic to help his father, a farmer, maximise yields and profits growing spinach and English cucumber.

Puli Raju from Telangana is a government school teacher, who has worked for over two decades with families of farmer suicide victims to get them their rightful compensation, financial aid, mental support, and more