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The entries for 15th National Biennial Campaign for Green Grassroots unaided Technological Innovations, Ideas & Outstanding Traditional Knowledge are open till 31st March 2027 -
Video Glimpses of NIF's Silver Jubilee Celebration
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25 Years of Innovation- Celebrating Grassroots creativity
- NIF-India Documentary
- NIF Newsletter - March 2025-English
- NIF Newsletter - March 2025-Hindi
- Celebrating 25 years of Innovation - SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION
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The entries for 15th National Biennial Campaign for Green Grassroots unaided Technological Innovations, Ideas & Outstanding Traditional Knowledge are open till 31st March 2027
-
Video Glimpses of NIF's Silver Jubilee Celebration
-
25 Years of Innovation- Celebrating Grassroots creativity
- NIF-India Documentary
- NIF Newsletter - March 2025-English
- NIF Newsletter - March 2025-Hindi
- Celebrating 25 years of Innovation - SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION
Celebrating 25 years of Innovation - SILVER JUBILEE YEAR CELEBRATION
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Dr. Arvind C Ranade
Director, NIF
National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) journey of two decades and Four years has been devoted to supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations and igniting traditional knowledge across the length and breadth of the country and beyond. Since its inception in 2000, NIF has been working with an unwavering commitment... Read more
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About Us
The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) - India
is India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.
NIF scouts, supports and spawns' grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector. It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain... Read more
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Congratulations to Shri Rawal Chand Pachariya, a NIF grassroots innovator, on his nomination to @SkrauBikaner 's Board of Management! His 3 unique sweet potato varieties (Thar Madhu – Pink skin,
— NIF - India (@nifindia) April 23, 2025
Maru Gulabi – Purple skin, Safed Sakkarkand – White skin).@IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/j3rDkNn1we
Data collection for the on-farm trial of Sitara Srinagar #mustard, developed by grassroots innovator Shri Hukum Singh Lodha, was conducted in #Mansa & #Bathinda , #Punjab . The variety showed higher yield, better disease resistance & stronger growth.@IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/DbI1UuiaEC
— NIF - India (@nifindia) April 17, 2025
Innovations
Diarrhoea Control
Sristi
Improved batteries with fast charging
Yash Vardhan Goenka
Amphibious Car
P.S. Vinod
Tamarind cultivation under dry land conditions etc.
Mr. A. I. Nadakattan
Herbal Preparation for Leaf Curl and Insect Control in Brinjal and Chilli
Nagbhai Bachubhai Rathod
Serial Innovator Hover craft, amphibious craft, rumble strip for generation of electricity, car run with compressed engine , gravitational bicycle and others
Kanak Gogoi
VKA _Episode 134 Dr. Hardev Chaudhary