Innovations for India

Indian business leaders speak to BUSINESS TODAY on their favourite innovation and why they hold it in great esteem.

Updated : May 6, 2014

CEO Speak: My favourite innovation

Indian business leaders speak to BUSINESS TODAY on their favourite innovation and why they hold it in great esteem.

Business Today photographer Nilotpal Baruah covers a typical day in the life of Narayana Health Chairman and Founder Devi Prasad Shetty.

Updated : May 5, 2014

Doc at work: Narayana Health's Devi Prasad Shetty

Business Today photographer Nilotpal Baruah covers a typical day in the life of Narayana Health Chairman and Founder Devi Prasad Shetty.

Updated : May 1, 2014

Innovations: The power of Ideas

Updated : Nov 2, 2012

How Barefoot College is empowering women

The Social Work and Research Centre, also known as the Barefoot College, works with underprivileged women, helping them build livelihoods within their own communities. The college, located in Tilonia village in Rajasthan, runs entirely on solar power and has trained 3 million women over the last four decades.  <br />

Updated : Nov 2, 2012

Lighting up rural India through solar microgrids

Thigra, a village 90 km from Lucknow, has been enjoying the benefits of electricity, thanks to Mera Gao Power and its solar microgrids. Each microgrid generates enough electricity to power 35 households for seven hours. <br />

Updated : Nov 2, 2012

How precision farming is helping Jalgaon farmers

DK Mahajan, a farmer from Jalgaon district in Maharashtra, talks about how precision farming techniques have helped him save on water usage and improve the quality and quantity of crops.

Slum children in Thubarahalli, near Bangalore, using SELCO lamps to study <em>Photo: Deepak G . Pawar</em>

Updated : Aug 14, 2012

Innovation in energy: How Harish Hande's SELCO is lighting up homes

A SELCO system consists of a panel, a battery and a charge regulator. It can power low wattage appliances such as lights, fans, television sets, mobile chargers and radios. Its products are not subsidised in any manner but for those still without electricity they are a godsend.

Sudesh Menon heads Waterlife <em>Photo: A . Prabhakar Rao</em>

Updated : Aug 10, 2012

How Sarvajal and Waterlife are supplying clean drinking water at affordable costs

Supplying clean drinking water to the masses can be a profitable and scalable business. Sarvajal and Waterlife show how.

Updated : Aug 8, 2012

How MGP's solar microgrids are lighting up villages

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Students at Bunker Roy's 'Barefoot College' in Tilonia village of Ajmer district in Rajasthan.

Updated : Aug 3, 2012

How Barefoot College is empowering women

Situated in a scenic landscape surrounded by the Aravalli Hills, in Tilonia village of Ajmer district, about 95 km from Jaipur, this is a college grounded in grassroots' development.

A student at Rani Meyammai School in Chennai learning multiplication. <em>Photo: H.K. Rajashekar</em>

Updated : Aug 3, 2012

Innovation in education: How to increase elementary education in a state

Five years ago its students were struggling. Today, innovative teaching methods based on activity-based learning have taken Tamil Nadu to the top of the elementary education charts.