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By : Kanika Kakkar

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), which means creation in Sanskrit, was born in 1993 as a result of the felt need for an institutional support to the activities of the Honey Bee Network. Honey Bee signifies a philosophy of discourses, which is fair, authentic and accountable. It advocates people to people learning. 

Sristi vision is to create a framework for creating an inventive ethic at grassroots level and forging links between excellence in formal and informal Science through Honey Bee Network.

SRISTI was set up to provide organizational, intellectual and logistics support to the Honey Bee Network. The primary objectives while setting up the organization were: systematically documenting, disseminating and developing grassroots green innovations, providing intellectual property rights protection to grassroots innovators, working on the in situ and ex situ conservation of local biodiversity, and providing venture support to grassroots innovators.

SRISTI manages the Honey Bee database of innovations, and supports the publication of the Network's newsletter in three languages, English, Hindi and Gujarati. 

Lately SRISTI has being focusing on more concerted ways of hitherto neglected domains like women's knowledge systems, value addition through a natural product laboratory, using ICT to establish knowledge network, connecting innovators, traditional knowledge holders with the centres of formal excellence, entrepreneurs etc and innovations in education. 

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Nuru Lights

by Brototi Roy

Nuru Lights is a social enterprise that sought to invent an affordable and clean off-grid lighting system for the world’s poor. The main reasons behind the motive to replace kerosene by the company are to bring on an affordable, healthy, environmentally friendly and safe for purpose way of lightning the world. 

This venture has a myriad of positive impacts for the rural people. Not only it's an affordable form of lighting system, resulting in over a 85% savings over kerosene but also helps the environment by providing an emissions-free lighting system and aids in employment opportunities for the local people. Their innovative technology won many awards and business plan competitions and has been mentioned in the New York Times, Fortune magazine and the likes.

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Driptech

with inputs: Kanika K. 

Driptech is an international water technologies company based in Silicon Valley, with offices in Pune and Beijing. Through its proprietary, widely deployable manufacturing systems, Driptech produces affordable, high-quality irrigation systems designed for small-plot farmers. The company distributes its products through local governments, corporate partners, and NGOs in India and China.

Its mission is to alleviate poverty by creating extremely affordable, water efficient irrigation solutions for small-plot farmers in developing nations. With its proprietary manufacturing technology, Driptech is able to produce and price drip irrigation systems at least 50% lower than the nearest competition. 

Unlike other drip irrigation systems, its systems reduce over 12,000 parts per acre by eliminating the use of complex and expensive emitters, meaning easier installations and maintenance.

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PhokatCopy

With inputs: Kanika K. & Soubhik C. 

PhokatCopy links student needs with an innovative marketing strategy, providing an opportunity for highly streamlined advertising, with targeted brand visibility to impact this demographic.

It offers students photocopying services at no cost, subsidized by revenues gained through advertising initiatives on the back page. Photocopying has become virtually free as Phokatcopy offer students photocopying services at no cost. 

At the present, Phokatcopy has signed MOU’s with around 25 colleges which include likes of IIT-Delhi, SRCC, Hindu, Hansraj, among others. The service till now is limited to Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore.

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ACE Experiences

With Input @ Divenita Er.

ACE Experiences brings larger than life entertainment experiences to India. Its first experience is soon to be launch in Hyderabad. Its mission is to bring one-of-a-kind entertaining and transformational experiences to India.

Also to captivate people through Art, Culture and Entertainment and deepen their understanding of themselves and the world around them, to offer experiences that enable people to appreciate diversity, empathize with others, and develop individual social responsibility and to develop employment opportunities for the differently abled. It offers a wide variety of innovative exhibitions and edutainment experiences for general public, educational institutions and organizations. 

For the first time in India, Dialogue in the Dark is brought to you by ACE Experiences. An experience that has touched over 6 million people in 110 cities across the world.

More Info @ACE Exp. official site

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Happy Hands Foundation

With inputs: Shubhendu S.

Happy Hands Foundation strives to revive cultural traditions, art and craft forms through contemporary ways and initiatives such Green Room and Blue-Prints. At Happy Hands, the focus is to create sustainable development opportunities for artisans and craftsmen of India, and encourage them to live a life of dignity, not charity.

The Happy Hands Foundation is an innovative fair trade, not-for-profit organization increasing economic opportunities for artisans and craftsmen in India and empowering them to bring about changes in their lives, their families and communities.

Happy Hands Foundation has impacted the lives of more than 500 artisan families, allowing them an income base from craft-work. Losing these crafts would mean losing an important part of our culture...most of it unexplored, unappreciated.

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Creativa India

Inputs: Kanika Kakkar

 

Creativa India spread its wings to take its first flight in July 2010. Himanshu Bhalla, a young aspiring entrepreneur, wanted to take the next step and intended to create a company that added a differential to every business aiming at exclusive branding and marketing expertise. He took forth his idea with enthusiasm and determination and thus, Creativa India was born.

They do Creative Advertising and Media Marketing across online and offline platforms. Currently, the company specialize into Social Media and Creative concepts. They have worked with brands into Automobile, Book Publishing, Education, Mobiles and Retail since they started last year.

Dinesh Juneja, a friend & his partner at Creativa, shared similar thoughts and passion. They share a long term vision to take Creativa to the top & together have been working on making this dream come true.

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CafeCHD

CafeCHD is an initiative to provide an online platform for the students of the most popular colleges in and around Chandigarh. Their vision is to create a public forum and a central database for all news and other valuable information previously flowing in through the word of mouth. 

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They plan to begin by providing an online notice board, a special section on the general information a fresher would need, basic advice senior has to give to his junior regarding training, academic projects and academics in general, a section on the structure of various clubs and societies, their objectives and procedure to join them, daily news in and around the campus, a moderated discussion forum where students can discuss and share their viewpoint on various topics. 

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