Innovation

Nikhil Lemos, a 15-year-old from Vadodara, Gujarat, has created 'Meditel', a mini-robot designed to help users remember to take their medications.

Basant Kumar Chandrakar, a resident of Chhattisgarh and a popular ‘pakora’ stall owner, has made a handheld machine to ease his work.

In 1979, he led the first large-scale national experiment to study the monsoons. He also created clouds in his lab. For his contributions to science, he won the Padma Vibhushan in 2013.

Varun Raheja designed foldable, portable, and scalable solar dryers to help small and marginal farmers derive better income from excess produce, which would otherwise be sold at throwaway prices.

Armed with dual degrees from IIT Kharagpur, IAS officer Raja Gopal Sunkara used technology innovatively to solve water and power supply challenges in Tamil Nadu's Erode district.

Karnataka's Suresh S R and his wife Maithili started Bhoomi Agri Ventures to turn areca palm leaves and husk into eco-friendly vegan leather.

Sadham Usean Ramasamy, a PhD scholar student at IIT-Madras, has invented a machine that can safely rescue children fallen and trapped in borewells. He explains how the device works.

IIT-Guwahati incubated startup Quant Solar Technologies' Floating Solar Plants are an innovative way to harness solar energy while conserving water and land.

These visionary farmers are transforming Indian agriculture with their groundbreaking innovations — from a ‘tree scooter’ for areca palm harvesting to Haresh Thacker’s ‘dragon fruit farming' in Kutch.

Kedar Kulkarni, a 29-year-old from Pune, is transforming public urinals into odourless and hygienic urinals, using the waterless technology he innovated.