What`s New
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NIF Newsletter: July-August 2025-English -
Rajbhasha Patal Activities
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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
- 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
The NIF showcased the Power Operated Passive Weeder by grassroots innovator Shri Kadivendi Mahipalchary (Telangana) at Koriya, Chhattisgarh, with support from KVK. Farmers & scientists witnessed live demos of this sustainable agri-innovation in action.@DrJitendraSingh @IndiaDST
— NIF - India (@nifindia) August 25, 2025
NIF with NRLM ‘BIHAN’ & Dantewada administration, installed an Automatic Biodegradable Sanitary Napkin Unit.
— NIF - India (@nifindia) August 19, 2025
10 women trained with innovator Shri Abdul Gaffar Shaikh — empowering livelihoods & promoting sustainability.@DrJitendraSingh @IndiaDST @karandi65 @arvind_c_ranade pic.twitter.com/RRVRvpr0Bi
Innovations
Multicolor headphone wires
Swetleena Zenith
Energy Generating Shoes
Sunil Kumar, Pankaj Sharma, Pooja Sharma
Mobile phone with inbuilt charger
K.Karan Kumar & Siddharthanan K
Traditional Herbal healer
Vishnu Kumar Sharma
Herbal medication for skin diseases
Ramaji Bhemaji Parmar
Treatment for In-plant Germination of Sugarcane
Beni Singh
VKA _Episode 122 Dr. R K Ravikumar