Uttar Pradesh

IIT-Kanpur professor Jayant Singh, along with three students, has developed a mobile app named Bhu Parikshak to test nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and more in the soil, alongside a low-cost and portable device that can do the job in just 90 seconds

A successful scientist in Canada, Shiva Balak Misra made his life’s mission to make education accessible to children in his village Kunaura in Uttar Pradesh, thus starting the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyalaya

Dr Subodh Kumar Singh from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, founded Gyan Singh Memorial hospital. With the support of USA-based NGO Smile Train, he offers free cleft surgeries to newborns.

Mohammad Saif Khan from Malihabad in Uttar Pradesh founded Josh Academic Samiti, an NGO offering free self-defence training and boxing lessons to girls and boys of the village

Punam Rai from Varanasi is the true face of courage. Despite being left paralysed for 15 years, she is empowering thousands of girls today with her organisation Bindeshwar Rai Foundation, wherein she teaches girls taekwondo and painting.

One of India's most hardworking conservationists, Arunima Singh has won the NatWest Group Earth Heroes Save the Species Award 2021 for her exemplary efforts towards saving turtles, tortoises, crocodilians and Gangetic dolphins.

Ramveer Singh from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, converted his house into a hydroponics farm that grows strawberries, cauliflower, okra, bottle gourd and other plants through the soilless, hydroponics method

Ravi Prasad from Hariharpur in Uttar Pradesh, started Malawa Kela Resa Utpadan Laghu Udyog Kendra that sells footwear, hats, carpets and other items made from banana waste

The Adivasi women of Bijpur village, Uttar Pradesh, are thankful to Renu Kumari who, at the age of 26, has already trained 100 of them in tailoring courses at her training centre.

In the heart of Uttar Pradesh, Dr Samir Kumar Sinha toiled for eight long years to bring together 14000 farmers and revive the population of Sarus Cranes. And the result has been a resounding success