Recipients of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Awards for Innovation 2017 presented on National Technology Day, May 11th, 2017

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Advertising Standards Council of India

For being the Most Innovative Regulatory Body

From App to Social Media; from establishing an every evolving and self-ordained framework of codes to their due enforcement, ASCI advances its cause with the unique ingenious approach of self-transformation

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Air India

for inducing innovative resistance driving home the much required point of sanity and sobriety in availing public services

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Annamrit Foundation

for its innovative practice of Farmers as Owners Communes Integrating farmers with the forward market linkages and making them shareholders in the overall value chain

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Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur

For the attempt to Design and Assemble a Modified 3D printer to be used for manufacture of single piece prototypes of complex nature which are not possible with normal manufacturing practices

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Bharat Niti

for being an ingenious engagement platform Advancing a Political Narrative in a 360 Degree Manner

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FACTLY

for creating a series of innovative short videos explaining a vast range of issues concerning public at large

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Great Game India

for its innovative approach in introducing the nuanced and multilayered narrative of International Affairs in a simple layman structure

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Indian Army

for the innovative intervention of its Commander who chose to tie up a protester as a human shield to reach to the troubled polling station and rescue the strangled personnel without retorting to any collateral damage to the already disturbed environment. The innovation of the concerned Army Commander does lie in addressing this new-age information warfare whereby the Sovereign Security Forces have been put to a tactical disadvantage in due discharge of their duty to protect the territorial integrity of their homeland.

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ITM Vocational University, Vadodara

for its Project Based Active Learning Pedagogy

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JSS College of Pharmacy, Ootacamund

for its Patented Hapenz & NSF-3 Herbal Drugs

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Kotak Mahindra Bank

for its initiative 811 which has immortalized the tectonic shift orchestrated

to catapult India to a futuristic age of banking and financial transactions

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NALCO

for its Nano-Technology Based De-Fluordidation Plant for Treatment of effluent water of smelter plant

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RS Narayan aka Ravinar

for his initiative MediaCrooks.com

which is an innovative pedagogy leveraging the social media platform for accentuating citizen resistance in national affairs

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Rama University, Kanpur

for its innovative initiative students.guru

which is an e-enablement platform for schools in the nearby vicinity of the university

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Ritu Rathaur

for innovating the use-case of Twitter Trends for Championing various public causes

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Shreeramachandrapur Math

for its Mangal Gou Yatra Initiative

A Unique Mix of solution centric advocacy cum action plan for the protection and augmentation of bovine breed which has had a symbiotic relationship with the Indian agrarian ecosystem. The elaborate effort to cover each and every district of Karnataka to generate objective awareness about cattle centered agrarian lifestyle calls for adulation

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Tajinder Bagga

for his initiative Modifying India which is an ingenious methodology in Political Activism

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Thots Lab

for its innovative amalgamation of the esoteric principles of the east with the modern researches of the west to induce the process of higher order thinking during the formative years

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Uttar Pradesh Police

for its initiative UP100

An overall framework for pro-actively engaging with the citizens at large and redressing their grievances at once