Lucknow's Anil Rajvanshi nominated for Padma Shree 2022 for efforts in rural development

Born and raised in Lucknow, a rural innovator and ideologist, Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi, has been selected for the Padma Shree Award 2022 for infusing science and technology for rural development. Other than a dozen-odd national and international awards, he is also the recipient of the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2001 for the use of science and technology in rural India.

The Man who transformed Rural India

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Dr. Anil Rajvanshi, the man always ahead of his time, ideated the e-rickshaw and ethanol as cooking fuel concepts way back in the 1990s. Currently, he is heading the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) at Phaltan in Satara district, Maharashtra. He believes that spirituality with high technology should be "the mantra of India's development and practices what he preaches."

IIT Kanpur Director, Dr. Abhay Karandikar congratulates, "I am delighted to share that Dr Anil Rajvanshi, Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, has been awarded the Padma Shri award as announced by the Government today on the eve of the Republic Day".

After completing his bachelor and masters from IIT Kanpur, Dr. Anil Rajvanshi moved to Florida, US for his PhD from the University of Florida in 1979, and later taught there for two and half years. Dr. Anil made his return to India in 1981, with the aim to apply his training and years of experience for the development and welfare of rural India. And later, established the energy and sustainable development work at NARI.

Dr. Anil's decades of work and efforts in the field of developing rural India include power generation from agricultural residues; renewable energy-based cooking and lighting; electric cycle rickshaws; renewable fuel production from agriculture; water purification and effluent treatment through the use of renewable energy. He calls himself a spiritual engineer who believes that spirituality mixed with technology should be the mantra behind grassroot development in India.