10th National Biennial Competition for Green Grassroots 2017

The 10th National Biennial Competition awards  the three best Science and Technology innovations with Rs 500,000 (National First), Rs 300,000 (National Second) and Rs 100,000 (National Third) each in different categories.The award also includes a Life Time Achievement Award of Rs 750,000 to an outstanding innovator with demonstrated lifelong creativity. The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) was set up in March 2000 with a view to assist the department of Science and Technology, Government of India. It's main initiative is to strengthen the grassroots of technological innovations and provide outstanding traditional knowledge.The NIF mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for technological innovators. NIF invites for entries of unaided technological innovations and traditional knowledge developed at grassroots by an individual or group comprising of farmers, artisans, fishermen and women, slum dwellers, workshop mechanics, students, local communities etc. The innovative work could be in the field of agriculture, machines, processes or products for farm/non-farm operations, household utility, transportation, energy conservation or generation, reduction in drudgery, development of plant varieties, development of herbal remedies for human/ animal problems, or any other low cost sustainable green technologies.