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Brother, sister duo invents low-cost solution for preserving vegetables and fruits
03 March 2021
Two young entrepreneurs from Naya Tola Dudhela in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, Nikky Kumar Jha and his young sister Reshmi Jha, have come up with a low-cost solution for preserving vegetables and fruits fresh for 5 to 30 days, which would help avoid wastage of food in a big way.
Preservator/Sabjikothi is a wheel mountable storage for transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables. It is a cost-effective, microclimate based, portable storage that extends the shelf-life and preserve the freshness of fruits and vegetables anywhere between 5 to 30 days.
From Dehradun to San Jose
In 2013, Ashish Garg co-founded Eltropy, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that enables businesses to connect with their customers on SMS (short messaging service) and text messaging apps.
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Growing up, not many of us knew what we wanted to do in life. But Ashish Garg, who grew up in a middle-class household in Dehradun, always wanted to become an engineer and start his own company.
Learning the spirit of entrepreneurship and perseverance from his father, he graduated with a degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
But the turning point came when Hotmail, founded by BITS alum Sabeer Bhatia, got sold to Microsoft for $500 million. Ashish thought, “If he can do it, why can’t I?”