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This 22-Year-Old Bareilly Boy Left CA Studies to Help Farmers Double Their...

The son of a property dealer in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, Prateek Bajaj almost became a CA and joined his father’s business. However destiny had other plans. A lecture on bio-waste management...

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30,000 Farmers Are Ditching Middlemen & Selling Their Produce Online. Thanks...

What if you could actually meet and thank the farmer who grows your food? It’s possible, thanks to two enterprising brothers.

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This Mechanical Engineer Quit His Job to Become a Beekeeper. His Life Has...

‘SBI Youth for India Fellowship’, an initiative of SBI Foundation provides a platform to the urban youth to participate in Rural Development with their innovative ideas to address the rural struggles...

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5000 Conscious Citizens Joined Hands to Make a River in Kerala Clean & Trash...

On the state government’s call to support the enterprise, 5000 people came forward to clean the Kanampuzha river

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These Innovative Airboats Might Soon Help Clean Bengaluru’s Dirty Lakes

NAL has developed an airboat which can push weeds and other contaminants towards the surface of the lake, from where it is easier to take them out.

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Paralysed Dogs to Electrocuted Monkeys, This Mumbai Vet Shelters & Heals All...

A Mumbai based veterinarian, Dr Deepa Katyal went out of her way to help her pet after his rear legs were paralysed due to intervertebral disc disease.

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Meet the Man Who Risked His Life to Bust a Kidney Racket in Delhi

Jaideep Sharma could have just ignored that one strange phone call and go on leading his life. But this was a call from a group of kidney racketeers and the 24- year-old did not just pay attention, but...

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This Architect Is Helping Rural Kids Study Better, With a Piece of Furniture!

Nishan has manufactured a multi-utility furniture called Surface and has distributed it to schools in the tribal villages of Odisha. The response has been amazing, as the kids treat it like their...

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This Software-Engineer-Turned-Bee-Keeper Has Saved 130 Beehives by Relocating...

Amit is well-known in Pune as the Bee Man. He has saved 130 bee hives only in Pune city so far.

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This Software Engineer Quit His Job to Help One Tribal Woman. Today He Has...

Vikash Das’s social journey started when he saw a tribal woman being insulted. Fast forward to now, that woman is a successful entrepreneur and has employed 26 other women. All this, with the help of...

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This Family in Surat Gives out Free Wheelchairs to the Needy & Cooks for 150...

What started with just four wheelchairs has now turned into an NGO called Aslot Manav Sahay Kendra, which has more than 450 pieces of equipment.

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This UPSC Aspirant Has Helped Build 70 Toilets in a Remote Village

Ushma Goswami, a SBI youth for India fellow went to a remote village in Mysore to open just a paralegal clinic but ended upbuilding 70 toilets in one year.

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A Beggar’s Ordeal After His Wife’s Death Inspired This Mechanic to Design a...

Mohammed,designed a bike ambulance by customising a Hero HF Deluxe motorbike by attaching a sidecar equipped with a fully functional ambulance unit to it.

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Going Grocery Shopping? These Organic Thelas Ensure That Farmers Get Best...

The brainchild of Naveen Seri, TruTrade and Organic Thelawala are the brain child of Naveen Seri. These initiatives work for the financial independence of the farmers and push pushcart vendors. They...

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How One Girl Is Using Nukkad Nataks to Educate an Entire Odisha Village

After her Master's in International Development Management from University of Nottingham, Nafisa Lokhandwala chose to go to one of the remotest villages of India called Koinpur in the Gajapati district...

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How This 18-Year-Old School Dropout Became the Youngest Person to Represent...

Poorvaprabha Patil, became the youngest person to represent Asia-Pacific at the second Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at...

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A Tiny Home With a Big Heart: Why a Driver & a BPO Employee Adopted 23 Street...

Prema and Shivaji converted their three-room rented house into Miracle Manna Children’s Home and became parents to 23 kids.

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Good News for Farmers: Interest on Short Term Crop Loans Falls From 9% to 4%

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Interest Subvention Scheme (ISS) for farmers for the year 2017-18. This will help farmers in getting short term crop loans up...

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One Man Has Turned Underprivileged Students Into IAS Officers by Coaching...

For thousands of students of Adamya Aditi Gurukul, who have become Sub Inspectors, IAS, IPS, IRS and CTO officers, Guru Rahman is that one teacher who has changed their world.

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How an IIT Alumnus Helped Thousands of Farmers Increase Productivity and...

An alumnus of the 1986 batch of mechanical engineering in IIT Madras, Madhavan was always passionate about farming and nature.

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