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Business Innovation Facility |
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Project run by
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| mKrishi, TCS |
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| Agricultural mobile service |
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| The initiative offers personalized and integrated agricultural services in local languages to low income farmers living in remote areas Viatheir mobile phones. |
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| Gramin Suvidha Kendra |
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| This initiative aims to distribute agricultural inputs, expert advice, warehousing and future pricing information to farmers by partnering with the Postal service. |
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| Saraplast, 3S SHRAMIK |
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| Portable sanitation |
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| This inclusive business venture aims to provide access to sustainable sanitation and waste management in urban slum settlements across India. |
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| Waste Ventures |
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| Waste picker cooperatives |
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| This venture will create a workforce of waste pickers, equipping them to operate through cooperativesin four municipal areas to inrease their incomes through employment. |
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| Hindustan Unilever |
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| Low-cost water purifier for poor consumers |
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| HUL has developed Pureit, a low-cost water purifier that supplies safe water and has an auto shut off mechanism that blocks the flow of water when it is no longer fit to drink. |
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| Waterlife |
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| Water management model |
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| Waterlife India aims to develop an end-to-end system for water management, that will increase the distribution of clean and affordable water to low-income areas in India. |
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| SHORT PROJECTS |
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| Better Cotton Initiative |
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| Designing farmer KPIs |
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| This project aims to create a list of key farm-level indicators to measure sustainability and livelihood improvements for smallholder cotton farmers. |
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| Greenway |
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| Waste to electricity |
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| Greenway aim to develop and commercialise their thermoelectric generator to convert waste-heat from household activities into a clean source of electricity. |
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| Climate-smart business |
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| Sankalp Forum 2012 event |
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The Business Innovation Facility ran a 'Climate smart business' workshop at the Sankalp Social
Enterprise Forum to inform business about climate finance. |
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| Milk Mantra |
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| Bulk milk cooler scoping |
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| Milk Mantra aims to explore the idea of community-managed bulk milk coolers (BMCs). These would enable the farming community to gain access to government and private dairy support schemes. |
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| Airtel |
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| Mobile wallet for rural banking |
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| Airtel has recently launched its mobile banking service, Airtel Money, for its urban customers and for m-commerce. Airtel is now keen to explore models for expanding into rural areas. |
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| Azure |
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| Developing solar energy operations |
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Azure aims supply utilities, government and commercial customers with its solar energy services by setting up two solar photo-voltaic (SPV) systems in rural India.
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