Youngsters come up with smart solutions for urban societies
They are all in their late twenties with high aspirations and one of them is to transform urban societies and make them smart.
Take the case of these two classmates from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Aditi Agarwal and Anjali Menon gave up full-time jobs at a design firm to come up with a start-up called Gudgudee in 2014. Both are furniture design experts. “We design and build inclusive play spaces where children of all abilities can engage in sensory stimulating activities, learn and grow together,” says Agarwal.
They are into generating playground ideas for special children. Another group of engineering graduates have floated a startup called Pump charge that helps people in tier 2 cities with no access to online banking or credit or debit cards make regular bill payments or book bus tickets by using tablets installed in local grocery stores. Lalit Nagrani and his classmate from an engineering institute in Vadodara, Gujarat, Jay Varia, queued up several times to pay phone and other bills. Both observed the challenges faced by people from tier 2 cities, especially those who had no access to online banking nor any access to credit or debit cards, when paying bills.” Four friends from different backgrounds have come together to start a company called Khetify that aims to transform city terraces into vegetable gardens and bridge the agrarian disconnect between cities and rural areas.
Partners Saahil Parekh, Mayank Jain, Kaustubh Khare and Prabhat Kumar say the idea was to grow different varieties of fruits and vegetables atop terraces in cities in an organic way.