What`s New
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NIF Newsletter: Sept-Oct 2025-English -
List of shortlisted candidates against Adv-01-2025
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NIF Newsletter: July-August 2025-English
- Rajbhasha Patal Activities
- Inspiring journey of P.G. George
- Padma Shri Hariman Sharma- The apple man of India !
- 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
- Celebrating 25 years of Innovation - SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION
- विज्ञापन सं. 01-2025 के अंतर्गत चयनित अभ्यर्थियों की सूची
- रानप्र न्यूज़लेटर : सितम्बर–अक्टूबर 2025 (अंग्रेज़ी)
- NIF Newsletter: July-August 2025-Hindi
Celebrating 25 years of Innovation -
SILVER JUBILEE YEAR CELEBRATION
Messages
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
Updates
Three point five lakh plus entries scouted
One thousand one hundred forty-five recognitions
Over one hundred twenty technology transfers
One thousand four hundred seventy-three patents filed
Seven hundred twenty-two patents granted
Ninety-five PPV and FRA applications filed
Forty-four PPV and FRA registered
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
Departments
Grassroots innovators displayed their technologies at the @nifindia stall in the DST Pavilion during #IISF2025, Panchkula. Dr. V. Narayanan @isro & Shri Manohar Lal Khattar visited, alongside scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, and 500+ students who engaged with the innovations. pic.twitter.com/Zh7VKbOlOI
— NIF - India (@nifindia) December 11, 2025
NIF–India’s Bhubaneswar Camp Office visited Gaya & Nawada (Bihar) to verify & document plant-based, herbal, veterinary, and engineering practices, securing PICs. A meeting at Kowakhol with ~40 farmers & innovators further strengthened community-led innovation efforts.@IndiaDST pic.twitter.com/wBZNjF0Bry
— NIF - India (@nifindia) December 8, 2025
Innovations
School bag with foldable wheeled legs to distribute load
Sahil Raja, Md. Sahanawaz Hussain, Nasiruddin Kabir, Arnab Ghosh
Improved paddy variety
Smt. Ariyammal and Smt. Pushpam
Pump less stove with Kerosene Heating
Sarfuddin Amanudin Kazi
Mobile charger_laptop adapter with inbuilt power backup
Rohit Tiwari
Umbrella that cools in hot summer
Miss. Supriya Chotrey
Laxmi Asu Making Machine
C Mallesham
VKA _Episode 134 Dr. Hardev Chaudhary