Using education as a tool to improve the social mobility of underprivileged children, 16-year-old Anju Rani is a torchbearer of sorts who convinced and even confronted parents to send their children to school and give them the chance to get educated. Anju personally rescued 46 children working as labourers and ensured that they were enrolled in school.
By creating a blood donor network even before becoming an eligible donor himself, Chethan M, 18, developed a database of donors to provide blood when all other sources are exhausted. Through his non-profit entity, Khoon, Chethan has impacted over 50,000 lives in Karnataka, Assam and Chhattisgarh.
If getting water for irrigation is a major challenge for farmers, optimising the use of available water for irrigation is even tougher. Eighteen-year-old Ishan Singh Malhotra’s Pluto device helps farmers remotely control their irrigation pumpsets through a GSM-based SIM card.
Bridging the opportunity gap between urban and rural football talent, the Pandey brothers Kush, 17, and Arjun, 15, developed ScoutMe, an app that serves as a football scouting platform to spot raw talent across the country. With 28,000 players and 3,000 registered scouts on the platform already, ScoutMe is recognised as the official app of the All India Football Federation.
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