Vinay just posted an interesting video made, produced by Discovery Channel on grassroots innovators in India. The organization behind identifying and nurturing such innovators is Sristi:

SRISTI is a non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs…

This video, brought to our attention by NGO Post, highlights a few great grassroots innovations. My personal favorite is the modified scooter as I believe it could be scaled up substantially. Check out the video below.

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