The 2021-22 Global Choice Awards recognizes leading groups & professionals

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The recognition in the Xel Research Global Choice Awards 2021 – 22 ( Excellence & Leadership In Business/ Services ) spanned across diverse sectors including Banking & Finance, IT, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Education, Textile, Design, Sports, Ayurveda & Arts & Culture, Agriculture, Business Consulting, exceptional Individual Professionals, Innovations etc.

1. Shopenzer ( Mr. Prakash & Mr. Pradeep Kumar ) – Global Excellence In E Commerce ( Online Shopping Portal )

2. Garima Mishra – Global Excellence & Leadership In Research & Influencer Of The Year

3. Srikanth Aravamuthan – Global Excellence & Leadership In Strategy & Analytics

4. Vinay Maloo ( Chairman – ENSO Group )- Most Admired Personality Of The Year

5. Sanjay Kumar Rai – Global Excellence & Leadership Information Technology

6. Expat Psychologist ( Founder – Taisia Slobodjaniuk ) Most Promising Mental Health Counselling Center

7. KNOVATIC FASTENER – Most Trusted Brand Of The Year ( Fasteners )

8. Dr. Harpawaan Kaur – Youth Women Icon Of The Year (Numerologist & Tarot Reader)

 9. Amitava Mazumder – Global excellence & Leadership In Healthcare Industry

10. Dirty Clean ( Founder – Mr. Ryan Rodricks )- Most Promising Service Provider Of The Year

11. ENGGMECH – Leading Manufacturer Of LPG / Natural Gas – Products & Systems In India

12. GUS Education India LLP – Fastest Growing Company / Brand Of The Year

13. Aditya K Mehta ( Senior President & CFO- Orion Group ) – CFO Of The Year 2021-22

14. Vaibhav Maloo ( MD at ENSO Group ) – Youth Men Icon Of The Year 2021-22

15. Pranav Kumar ( Founder – Yoga Divine Soul ) – Youth Man Icon Of The Year ( Yoga & Fitness Expert

16. Sanjeev Kumar ( Founder & Global CEO – DTM Holdings UNITED KINGDOM – Outstanding & Remarkable Contribution To The Healthcare Sector.

 17.  QualiZeal ( Dallas ) – #1 Fastest-Growing Digital Quality Engineering Services Company

18. Stanadyne India Pvt. Ltd. – Excellence & Leadership In Fuel Pump Manufacturing

19. Kiasa International LLC ( USA ) – Most Innovative Security Lock System Company Of The Year

 20. Dr. Chakradhar Maddela – Most Competent / Proficient & Coveted Doctor & Neonatologist Of The Year

21. Avtar Singh ( CSIO of Aluminium Business – Vedanta ) – Global Excellence & Leadership In Security Industry

22. Successive Technologies ( Founder & CEO – Mr. Siddharth Pandey ) – Global Excellence In Digital Transformation

23. Dr. Karthik Ramesh – Outstanding & Remarkable Contribution To IT / Banking / Healthcare &  Finance Sector

24. Mintlime  ( Founder – Rumi Borah ) – Best Creative Platform In India

25. Vajro ( Co-founder & CEO ) – Most Innovative Mobile Application Builder In E- Commerce

26. DHYEY SHETH ( VP – Sales & Marketing at Stayflexi ) – Global Excellence & Leadership In Sales & Marketing ( Hospitality & IT )

27. Salucro Healthcare Solutions – Most Trusted Payment Platform For Healthcare

28. Avriant Pvt. Ltd. – Most Promising IT Service Provider Of The Year

29. Rashmi S Rajashekar – Women Technology Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021-22

30. Dr. Milap Goud – Most Accomplished Drilling Fluids Professional

31. Vintz Plastics Ltd. – Most Promising Plastic Recycling Company Of The Year

32. Gautam Nath (Canada)- Outstanding & Remarkable Contribution To The Multicultural Marketing Sector In Canada

33. Musekiwa Moyo ( Zambia, East Africa ) – Outstanding IT Professional Achievement Of The Year

34. BODABAGS FASHION ( The Netherlands ) – Best Emerging International Brands of The Year 

35. Zylux Venture Pvt. Ltd. – Fastest Growing Startup In Eyewear Industry (Spectacle Lenses) in India

36. Unique Software Development ( Tx,Dallas ) – Most Promising Software Development Company Of The Year

37. Satwinder Sagoo – Global Excellence & Leadership In Motivation 

38 Newen Systems Pvt. Ltd. ( Co-founders – Mr. Nitin Sharma & Nitesh Bhutada )- Most Promising Company Of the Year

39. Swiss Garnier Genexiaa Sciences Pvt. Ltd. – Global Excellence In Pharmaceutical Industry

40.  Murali Kashaboina – Global Excellence & Leadership In Technology Innovation

41. Rahul Choudhary ( CEO & Board Member – Namaste laboratories LLC, USA ) – Global Excellence & Leadership In FMCG Industry

42. Daphne Soares ( UAE ) – Global Excellence In Business , NLP Coaching & Leadership

43. Brijendra Singh ( Vertical Head – Lupin ) – Outstanding & Remarkable Contribution To The Pharmaceutical Industry

44 Ortil Healthcare ( UAE ) – Best Emerging Complete Healthcare Service Provider Of The Year

45. Rakesh H. Dube – Healthcare Professional Achiever Of The Year

46. Bilal Awan ( Dublin ) – Outstanding Contribution, Excellence & Leadership (Mental Health & IT Security)

47. Anu Aggarwal ( UNHCR Ambassador – United Nations ) – Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year 

48. Assem Mousa ( Egypt ) – International Icon Of The Year (Industrial Researcher & E-Commerce Expert)

49. Dr. Susanta Bhuniya( CEO – QPMC ) – Global excellence & Leadership In Training & Consultancy

R K Dhuria, Managing Director, Xel Research said “Our idea is to establish the award as recognition of the significant contribution made by corporate, professionals from different Startups, SMEs and other industry verticals to make a positive and beneficial impact in their community, society and the national & International level, at large. Through this award we want to encourage individuals and corporates, to stand-up for the cause they care.”

The Global Awards is a one-of-its-kind global awards ceremony; it witnesses some of the brilliant minds from across the land who took the oath to stand for a cause that would help to uplift the developing sections and empower them with basic fundamental rights. The platform enables individuals to showcase their experiences and journeys and inspire others to stand for a cause. Individuals and organizations get recognized for the enormous difference they have made to improve and empower the quality of life for everyone, through their initiatives.

Inflection AI raises $225M to make communication with computers easier

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Inflection AI Inc. raised $225 million in new cash. Some 27 investors bought stakes in the startup as part of its fundraising.  The company hopes to make it easier for humans to communicate with computers.

A company with high-profile founders is raising $225 million in additional investment to make it simpler for people to connect with machines.

In a regulatory filing on Friday, Inflection AI Inc. reported its latest cash haul. As part of the company’s financing, 27 investors purchased shares.

The identities of those funders were not disclosed by the Palo Alto firm, which was launched earlier this year.

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp., founded Inflection earlier this year with Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan, both DeepMind Technologies Ltd., Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research arm.

They haven’t said much about what they’re working on, although Suleyman, the startup’s CEO, hinted to the media in January.

He told the media, “I definitely feel like we haven’t really cracked the nut of how we make technology platforms, software, and, of course, AI feel like they’re happening with people, and where people have significant influence in shaping how it arrives in their world and doesn’t just happen to people.”

Suleyman built on this notion when Inflection started in March. In a blog article, he predicted that humans will soon be able to interact with computers as effortlessly as they do with other people.

He said, “These new language capabilities will redefine what it means to have a digital experience over time.”

How this 14-YO girl built organic perfume startup Bella Fragrances

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Aryahi Agarwal is a 14-year-old girl who founded organic perfume startup, Bella Fragrances. Aryahi launched a company upcycling used t-shirts into bags, when she was 11 years old.

Mumbai-based Aryahi Agarwal, a Class 9 student, is responsible for a few extra tasks. She is the 14-year-old founder of Bella Fragrances, an organic perfume business that promotes itself as a 100 percent organic perfume line for teens.

This is her second attempt at business. When she was 11 years old, she launched a company upcycling used t-shirts into bags. She won first prize in a competition for it.

Three years later, she launched her second firm. She feels the inspiration came from a need to acquire inexpensive perfume for herself.

The bulk of high-quality fragrances cost up to Rs 2,000, making them too expensive for a student to purchase on their own. She wanted to make something that her friends could afford without spending a fortune.

During the lockdown, she was seeking for a good scent. She has never been able to locate a scent that she can wear to school. The notes were either too old for her or had a strong flowery aroma.

This is how Aryahi got the idea to create an organic perfume and fragrance collection for adolescent females. Instead than depending on her mother’s collection, she decided to develop her own perfume.

She also desired to create something delicate enough to wear to school. Aryahi worked for six months on her business idea before launching it.

She was able to meet with a number of industry leaders and veterans, all of whom warned me not to enter the business. They informed her it was impossible to create an organic perfume in the price range she desired. As a result, there was no help from that source as well.

Handcrafted Organic Perfumes are included in each bottle. Aryahi spent over six months experimenting with essential oil mixtures before deciding on the optimal organic perfume formulation. Everything is handmade, and she develops all of her own recipes.

Each batch she produced, she handed to others to taste. Based on their comments, she fine-tuned the recipe at each stage.

When she had the concept, she had a ready testing group because her intended demographic was adolescents. Every few months, she would give her pals a bottle of perfume and solicit their opinions. They have given her the best, and maybe most important, advice she could have asked for.

Bella Organics and Bella Naturals are the two organic perfume perfumes that are currently available. Both cost Rs 599 for a 30-ml bottle. Bella Naturals comprises 21 notes, is gentle on the skin, lasts longer, and has a flowery aroma.

Bella Organics, on the other hand, has three notes, is gentler, and is mostly composed of rose. Each bottle has up to 80 spray counts and should last up to three months.

She has been getting orders since December 2021, and she has witnessed continual growth, resulting in a profit of over Rs 65,000. Her father had invested Rs 20,000 in her business at the outset, and she is pleased to report that she was able to quadruple that amount in less than three months.

Investment giant SoftBank to cut startup funding as losses cross $13B

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SoftBank is expected to reduce startup funding by more than half in 2022.

Japanese investment giant suffered a massive net loss of $13.14 billion in the last financial year. SoftBank posted a massive financial loss of 1.708 trillion yen ($13.14 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 31, warning it would be forced to decrease startup funding by more than half this year.

According to Nikkei Asia, the Japanese investment behemoth also disclosed its largest-ever quarterly net loss, 2.1 trillion yen ($16.2 billion), during the January-March quarter.

SoftBank also disclosed a record $27 billion loss for the year to its Vision Funds, owing to large losses in investments in digital businesses such as Coupang and Didi Global.

SoftBank spent $2.5 billion in the January-March quarter, compared to $10.4 billion in the preceding quarter. The investment giant put more than $46 billion of its money in startups in the previous fiscal year.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son stated that “the amount of fresh investments (in startups) will be half or as little as a quarter” compared to previous year.

The company’s stock dropped 8% ahead of the news on Thursday, the lowest level in over two months.

According to Redex Research analyst Kirk Boodry’s estimations, “other dismal performers included Singaporean ride-hailing business Grab, US food delivery firm DoorDash, and Indian payments organization Paytm, which combined lost close to $5 billion throughout the quarter.”

“The investing environment remains tough,” SoftBank stated, citing fast-rising prices, increasingly complex geopolitical risk, and a global energy shock.

SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund, which is funded by Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, was unveiled in 2017.

7 Top RealTech Companies in India in 2022

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The term RealTech refers to the various types of technology utilized in the real estate market. Find 7 top RealTech companies in India in 2022.

RealTech firms’ tactics and strategies have enabled many different types of enterprises to address problems. They have been able to assist firms of various sizes by making the greatest use of intelligence and constant hard work.

There has been an on-demand culture in the country to compel the old bricks to compete with other enterprises in the process of inventory management, supply chain, and logistics. RealTech clients are continuously looking for solutions that can build high-quality customer profiles.

Workplaces such as WOTSO, Regus, and WeWork have seen significant growth. RealTech is more concerned with the community and its connectedness. Simply a means of providing more alternatives to consumers and improving the real estate industry.

Here are 7 top RealTech companies in India in 2022

1. Best RealTech (India) Private Limited

 Since its inception, the organization has produced excellent outcomes. It is currently in operation and primarily works with the construction of all types of structures. The corporation has a well-designed website that provides all of the information such as paperwork, trademarks, and the number of directors in the company.

The firm was founded in 2007 and is registered with the Registrar of Companies in Delhi. The company’s share capital is Rs 20,000,000, and its paid-up capital is up to Rs 1,300,000.

2. Agiledge Solutions Private Limited

Agiledge Solutions provides employee transportation as well as the finest option for optimizing employee transportation organization.

It is designed with complete safety and security in mind, as well as effective administration. It also includes extensive mobile and corporate apps, as well as extensive subject expertise and industry records.

3. Property Adviser Private Limited

Property Adviser is a non-government firm that has been authorized. They link all the places that have an emotional connection with them, such as their hometown. It intends to conduct a thorough study to identify patterns in development, pricing trends, and infrastructure changes.

4. AKD India RealTech Private Limited

The firm has over 8 years of experience, is a non-government organization, and is registered at the registrar office in Delhi. It manages the real estate activities with the company’s leased property and also falls under the REAL ESTATE ACTIVITIES division.

5. AUT India RealTech Private Limited

The firm was formed in 2014 and is listed as a corporation with a restricted number of shares. The company’s authorized capital is set at Rs 5.0 lakhs.It has produced a solid consumer and sales report and has produced the most effective outcomes.

6. Atal RealTech Ltd.

Mr Vijaygopal Atal established Atal RealTech Ltd in the year 2012. The firm has provided sub-integrated contracting as well as sub-contracting services for civil and industrial construction and engineering. The services are quite competent, with the most expert type of labor and final outcomes.

7. Amanda RealTech India Private Limited

It is a private corporation that has been in operation for three years and ten months. The company’s share capital is Rs 100000, as is its paid-up capital, which is around the same amount. According to the registrar’s company, the firm is in the business activity class.

School Principals, Institution Heads will be trained by Tech Avant-Garde on Best Strategies from Remote and Hybrid Learning

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The Course will be held from 18 May to 11th June 2022.

National, May 2022: Tech Avant-Garde, the Global Partner of Microsoft, in association with Microsoft Education, will be conducting this training program for the very first time. It will focus on new paradigms of learning : Remote, Blended and Hybrid

This training program will cover the following topics: Developing Model Schools, Develop your vision and build a roadmap to get there, Prepare your Stakeholders, Stay Connected & Real time case studies.

The course is free & the program will be conducted on Knowledge L’avenir platform.

Talking about the training program for School Leaders and the role of technology, Ali Sait, CEO, Tech Avant-Garde, said, “This training program, specifically for School Leaders, is conducted for the first time in the world on Digital Transformation in Education. The School Leaders who attend this program will get certified and the schools will become eligible for two sessions of advisory on Digital Transformation and Holistic Learning within 2 months of the program. We are anticipating 12000 Heads of Schools to participant in this training program”.

The dates of the trainings will be as follows

• Curtain Raiser Wednesday 18 May 2022 at 7.30 PM  IST  

• Batch 1 Thursday 19th May 2022 – Friday 20th May 2022

• Batch 2 Tuesday 24th May 2022 – Wednesday 25th May 2022

• Batch 3 Thursday 2nd Jun 2022 – Friday 3rd Jun 2022

• Batch 4 Friday 10th Jun 2022 – Saturday 11th June

Digital Transformation and its impact on Education

Digital transformation is an indisputable force revolutionizing our industries, reinventing our products, redefining our services, and reshaping the way we live and work. Its impact demands a change in schools and teaching practice. It shows how emerging technologies, including analytics and artificial intelligence, deliver far greater understanding of student capabilities and support new approaches to teaching and learning.

Schools around the world quickly transformed into online schools when the pandemic hit, but as students and teachers are returning to the physical space, it is the time to see this as an exciting opportunity to fundamentally change the lives of children and shift the trajectory of the community to re-think the school system.

Today’s students need real-world skills to thrive in the not-too-distant future. They must develop qualities like critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and the ability to construct complex solutions. This is true regardless of subject area. Complex skills are as important for artistic, service, and human-oriented professions as they are for more scientific, technological, or industrial employment.

Professional development for School leaders

Highest success of adoption among the teacher begins with the leadership team as they adopt a growth mindset, exhibit a personal culture of learning, and leverage modern technologies to support their collaboration and communications. They must reach beyond their institution’s walls to work with other educational systems, schools and communities and consider the successes of others to develop their own methodologies. In the process, they practice a principle of distributed leadership, where they share responsibilities across their organization and empower others. A learning leader focuses on what their teachers know and educating them in their craft so that they can better educate their students. They use data to assess how their students and teachers are performing and create a collegial environment where teachers trust that they can learn from one another.

About Tech Avant-Garde:

Tech Avant-Garde (TAG) is India’s largest Solution Provider in the education segment, supporting all genre of institutes, ranging from K-12 schools to Universities. TAG is a part of the Accelerator program of Microsoft and has been certified as a Global Trainer for Microsoft in Education. TAG won the award for the Best Worldwide Training Partner of Microsoft Asia region. TAG, as a co-sell partner and ISV of Microsoft, has implemented the Digital Transformation and Holistic Learning program to help educational institutions to navigate from physical classrooms to digital classrooms. Some of the products and solutions of Tech Avant-Garde include Lycee-Cyber Academe, an ERP Campus Management solution, Efeeonline, an Online Multimode Fee payment solution for educational institutions which is connected to the Bharat Bill Payment System developed by NPCI. TAG also works in learning knowledge enhancement of educators through Knowledge L’avenir, the largest social learning platform for teachers, and Knowledge Key Foundation, to bring state-of-the-art technology and tools to aid institutions and teachers to enhance their digital teaching and learning skills.

About Knowledge L’avenir:

Knowledge L’avenir is the largest Social Learning Platform for educators. To ensure that the teacher is not ill equipped in the 21st century classroom and is prepared for a hybrid learning ecosystem, the platform works seamlessly and tirelessly to educate, train and empower teachers. Knowledge L’avenir platform creates the learning opportunities for the educators to stay abreast with Knowledge Age learning tools, latest Teaching Learning Technology and the Futuristic Teaching Pedagogy. Knowledge L’avenir conducts various programs viz., Knowledge L’avenir Conclaves, L’avenir Forums, TAG Talks, Black Fridays, that help the education segment to be an active player in the digitally transformed learning system. Over the years Knowledge L’avenir has trained over 1,50,000 teachers across the country from different genre of schools.

Please click on the following link for Registration – https://forms.office.com/r/yDg4RJBq1b .

For any quires, please call +91 8139999211 or write to tagconnect@t-a-g.co .

Meet the salesman who built Rs 46 crore apparel brand from Rs 50,000

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Anuj Mundhra, who once worked a salesman, was among the earliest entrepreneurs to leverage the online marketplace. His apparel business Nandani Creation Ltd clocks a Rs 46 crore turnover.

Anuj Mundhra rose from modest beginnings as a salesperson in a saree boutique earning a meager monthly wage of Rs 1400 to developing a Rs 46 crore turnover clothing firm via hard effort and a never-say-die attitude in the face of adversity.

Anuj, creator of Jaipur-based Nandani Creation Ltd and promoter of the Jaipur Kurti brand, explains, “In my life, I have followed a code, which is either forget everything and flee, or face everything and rise.”

He selected the latter option and has always been a warrior. Anuj began working soon after finishing his Class 12 and then earned his B. Com from the Commerce College in Jaipur.

From 2001 to 2003, he worked at a saree store before joining a textile dealer in Jaipur.

Anuj made his first significant move in 2004, when he borrowed Rs 50,000 from his mother to establish a block and screen printing business.

After viewing the billboards of e-commerce portals Jabong and Snapdeal on a visit to Delhi eight years later, Anuj made the largest leap of faith in 2012, when India was taking its first steps in digital retailing, and bought his now popular domain jaipurkurti.com.

The plan was to offer women’s ethnic clothes online under the brand name Jaipur Kurti, and the strategy worked despite some early difficulties.

Anuj believes that because of the convenience and importance of internet shopping, Indians have become accustomed to it.  However, this was not the case in 2012, when people’s trust in internet purchases was extremely low. Jaipur Kurti is now ranked among the top women’s ethnic wear companies in the internet industry.

The majority of their sales are made through e-commerce sites like as Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, Snapdeal, Nykaa, Ajio, Paytm, Tata Cliq, Meesho, Limeroad, and a tiny amount through their own portal. His young firm’s prosperity was accelerated by the first-mover advantage.

His proprietary enterprise, Nandani Creation, which began operations in 2004, was renamed Nandani Creation Private Limited in 2012, with Jaipur Kurti as a clothing brand.

The firm made a significant profit of Rs 59 lakh in its first fiscal year, 2012-2013. Anuj believes that the future of retail will be ‘bricks and clicks,’ thus the company’s approach is both online and offline.

Anuj is following his intuition once more and developing his offline company. He believes that offline retail will have a significant revival.

“We are currently expanding. We intend to build 100 company-operated or franchised outlets around the country by 2025 “Anuj adds

They are also attempting to lessen third-party reliance by decreasing the proportion of sales made through other e-commerce sites.

His family has been very engaged in his business. Dwarka Mundhra, his father, is in charge of the company’s finances.

“One of the biggest blows to my business happened in 2010, when I received a large order from a well-known retail chain. But the order was refused, and I was deeply in debt “Anuj concurs.

He had spent Rs 60-70 lakh on the clothing, but when the contract was cancelled, he was forced to sell them at a loss. In that single case, he lost millions of rupees.

He was also married to Vandana Luthra, a fashion designer, at the time.

When the firm was listed on e-commerce portals Jabong and Snapdeal, they began selling in-house created apparel online, which permanently transformed their fortunes.

The firm has grown to include a design studio and a production house, as well as a staff of skilled designers who work under Vandana’s supervision.

Women’s Kurtis, dresses, suit sets, kurta, palazzo, skirts, salwar suits, dupatta, tops, and pants are among the apparel items available in both modern and ethnic patterns.

Taking every chance, he began producing N95 masks under the trade name ‘Value Plus’ throughout the outbreak.

Though Nandani Creations was named after his niece Nandani, the name of his luxury apparel line ‘Amaiva’ was inspired by his daughter Amyra and wife Vandana.

This high-end brand will retail exclusively in their retail stores and website.

Navi Technologies appoints Meesho CEO as its independent director

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Vidit Aatrey, Co-founder and CEO, Meesho has joined the board of Navi Technologies. Aatrey will serve Navi as an independent director.

Navi Technologies has announced the appointment of Vidit Aatrey as an independent director on the company’s board.

Aatrey, who is joint founder and CEO of Meesho,  has been appointed by it in the new role, with effect from April 9, 2022.

Aatrey’s appointment is part of Navi’s continuous attempts to improve its board, which has recently added three new members: Abhijit Bose, Shripad Nadkarni, and Usha Narayanan.

With this appointment, Navi’s Board, which now has seven members, will have a majority of independent directors.

Other board members include Navi promoter and co-founder Sachin Bansal, Ankit Agarwal, and Anand Sinha, former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Navi Group Co-Founder Sachin Bansal stated, “I am delighted to welcome to our Board Bobby (Abhijit), Shripad, Usha, and, most recently, Vidit. They each bring a distinct viewpoint, and I believe they will provide considerable strategic value to it as we expand. These selections reaffirm our commitment to setting excellent corporate governance standards.”

Inspiring story of IFS officer who was diagnosed with IIH, failed twice

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Doctors told Anisha Tomar she had Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) when she began studying for her second attempt at the UPSC examinations. She later became a well-known IFS officer.

Success and failure stories both motivate us in different ways. Such anecdotes inspire UPSC hopefuls to persevere in their difficult road toward becoming a government servant.

Anisha Tomar, an IFS officer from New Delhi who passed the test with an All India Rank (AIR) of 94 on her third try in 2019, revealed her tough path on Quora.

Anisha, like every other aspirant, began with vigour and optimism. But she realized it was going to be a difficult challenge immediately after the first prelim.

Furthermore, she was diagnosed with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) in February 2018, just as she began preparing for her second try.

Anisha said, “With prelims only a few months away, I felt like my dream was slipping away from me. Somewhere in the midst of drugs, MRIs, and spinal taps, I mustered the strength to study despite the pain.” She feared she’d never be able to recover from her two-month hiatus.

Surprisingly, she passed the prelims but failed the mains by six marks that year.

Nonetheless, she was unwilling to give up on her ambition. Anisha breezed through the prelims once more and concentrated on the mains. She spent more time this semester on ethics, essays, and elective subjects.

Anisha says that her right hand’s pinky finger was completely swollen and bruised.

She was overjoyed after the exams, and an interview call seemed imminent.

She passed the mains and went to the interview, as predicted. Anisha recalls staying cool and composed during the interview.

However, the delay in publicizing the results made her anxious.Anisha describes her feelings as fear, concern, lethargy, and fatigue. The thought of studying for prelims tormented her.

However, the youngster’s diligence paid off. Her eyes welled up when she saw her position of 94th.

“Growth is gradual, life is unpredictable, hope is all we have,” Anisha said in her article.

These sensible comments of an ambitious lady inspire everybody — UPSC applicant or not. Through her hardships, she highlights the need of taking care of oneself no matter what.

Meet the engineers who built Rs 120 lac startup to turn waste into manure

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Engineering graduates, Chandan Kagganapalli and Darshan Challuru, built a  startup, Ecofinix, to turn organic waste into fertile and nutrient-rich manure. The business clocks an annual turnover of Rs. 120 lac.

Every year, over 40 million pilgrims visit Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. The aggregate trash created by the enormous population is around 40 tonnes every day.

Residents of the city, Chandan Kagganapalli and Darshan Challuru, were concerned about the rubbish stacking up at the dump yard. To solve the problem, these engineering grads opted to turn the organic waste into fertile and nutrient-rich manure.

In 2020, Chandan founded Ecofinix and enlisted Dharsan, together with K Varun Kumar and M Praveen Kumar, to process tons of garbage from the temple town while also encouraging farmers to make the green transition by allowing them to practice chemical-free farming.

Dharsan explains, “Chandan and I met in a startup community and quickly connected over our desire to offer sustainable solutions to the environment. We began discussing company concepts and voiced our worries about the city’s rising garbage generation at one of the meetings. We thought it was our primary obligation to preserve our country’s attractiveness. As a result, we decided to establish a recycling and processing plant and promptly approached the city commissioner.”

According to the 23-year-old, the city leader gave them the opportunity. He says they established two units that process organic or moist trash in three ways.

The first approach is conventional, in which garbage is allowed to decay naturally through bacteria before being converted into vermicompost,” he explains, adding that the process takes roughly 40 days to produce organic-rich manure.

According to Dharsan, the second approach includes sorting dry and moist trash on a treadmill-like conveyor belt. Dry garbage is segregated by size for recycling, while organic waste is composted using natural composting processes.

Dharsan says, here they sort and recycle solid waste such as plastic and glass.

He says, “The third way is the quickest since the trash is introduced in a specially designed chamber created in partnership with an engineering firm. It is instantly digested, and the organic compost is ready the same day.”

They believe that while technology developments made it easier for them to produce organic fertilizer, persuading farmers to embrace the change in farming practices was tough.

He explains, “Farmers in the area had not utilized vermicompost and were skeptical of the product. To persuade them, we gave out 2,000 kilograms of compost manure for free.”

The waste that is collected is either recycled or transformed into organic compost.

According to Chandan, the team also illustrated the advantages of utilizing organic fertilizer by producing crops on a plot of land.

He says, “Farmers gradually began to adopt Ecofinix’s organic compost. So far, over 1,000 people have used it, and we’ve also targeted terrace gardeners.”

Following its success in Tirupati, the company extended its operations in Rajahmundry with the assistance of the local civic body.

Farmers may purchase organic compost for Rs 4 per kg. According to Dharsan, the firm handles 100 tonnes of garbage every day and earns a monthly revenue of around Rs 10 lakh.

He says, “We are spreading our business to other states in order to assist more farmers in increasing their harvests. Several initiatives are being developed to raise awareness and boost the usage of organic compost in order to convince farmers to abandon the use of pesticides.”

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