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Amid India’s growing water crisis, meet five inspiring water warriors who are restoring ponds, building check dams, and bringing clean water to millions. This September, The Better India Showcase 2025 is honouring their impact.

A youth-led environmental campaign in Ghaziabad is transforming food waste into cattle fodder—and saving the Hindon River from over 1,000 kg of garbage.

Vidit Sharma, a Noida resident, started Jan Rasoye to provide home-cooked meals at Rs 5 to daily wage labourers outside government hospitals.

Is Hopcharge, a Gurugram-based startup, redefining the electric vehicle charging experience?

GoZero Mobility, an electric mobility venture founded in 2018, unveiled its ‘Switch’ campaign last month. It allows customers to exchange their conventional bicycles for a new GoZero e-bike.

Statiq, founded by Akshit Bansal and Raghav Arora, operates over 600 charging stations spread across more than 40 cities. The Delhi-NCR-based ‘tech-first startup’ has an app that allows you to find your nearest charging station.

As she turned 50, Seems Arora leveraged her management skills as a homemaker to start a venture called Rad Living that makes hand-poured, natural soy wax candles, along with her son Vineet.

Raghvendra Kumar, who also goes by the sobriquet ‘Helmet Man of India’, sold his house and three bighas of land, distributing 50,000 helmets free of cost across 22 states.

BatteryPool, a Pune-based EV startup founded by Stanford graduate Ashwin Shankar, provides IoT-enabled smart swapping stations that swap batteries in just two minutes.

Virohan, the Gurugram-based healthcare edtech startup founded by Nalin Saluja, Kunaal Dudeja and Archit Jayaswal, trains and certifies allied healthcare professionals (AHPs), who form the vital backbone of the healthcare sector in India and abroad.