Meet Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu, of Vinfinet Technologies. His for-profit business venture, “Kisan Raja,” supports end-to-end automated irrigation.

Head Held High Foundation, together with its subsidiaries, works on creating sustainable models for rural transformation. They have developed training programs that seek to identify, empower, and enable the most vulnerable people and communities.

Meet Roopa Nagarajan and Project E-MPOWER: E-technology for Management of Projects for persons with communication disorders in Rural areas.

Meet Dhruv Lakra and Mirakle Couriers, a Mumbai-based, National Award-winning innovative courier company that employs low-income deaf adults. They offer their clients excellent logistical solutions, consistently providing them with reliable, efficient and customizable service, without compromising their social commitment to empower India's vast and very underserved deaf community.

Meet Rajnish Jain. He and his organization, AVANI are using pine needles to generate electricity in Uttarakhand.

Meet Jithin Krishnan and Make A Difference (MAD)—a youth platform that provides safe learning eco-systems for children at risk in orphanages, street shelters and poor homes.

Jharkhand is the ‘Lac State of India.’ Recent studies in Jharkhand revealed that income generated from lac cultivation is next only to cultivation of paddy.