Infosys Foundation has announced the winners of the 2025 Aarohan Social Innovation Awards, awarding INR 2 crore to eight innovators. The awards recognize transformative innovations in education, healthcare, and environmental sustainability. Winners receive INR 50 lakh each for their impactful solutions. The awards highlight Infosys Foundation’s commitment to driving social impact through technology and compassion across India.
Recognizing Social Innovators
Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has revealed the winners of the fourth edition of the Aarohan Social Innovation Awards on November 21, 2025. These awards, initiated in 2018, celebrate individuals and teams creating breakthrough solutions for social good, aimed at improving lives across India.
Award Focus Areas
The 2025 awards recognized innovations in three key areas: Education, Healthcare, and Environmental Sustainability. These align with Infosys Foundation’s mission to drive social impact through technology, creativity, and compassion. Over 2,000 entries were evaluated by an eminent jury.
Winning Innovations
Each winner of the Aarohan Social Innovation Awards 2025 will receive INR 50 lakh for their impactful innovations:
Education: Connecting the Dots
Rajesh A Rao, Ravindra S Rao, and Deepa L B Rajeev from Bengaluru developed ‘Connecting the Dots,’ an interactive learning program designed to teach STEM and spoken English to government school students (Grades 6-10) through daily live classes, lab kits, scholarships, and teacher training.
Healthcare: CLUIX C012
Chitranjan Singh and Robin Singh from New Delhi created ‘CLUIX C012’, a portable Al- and loT-enabled water-quality analyzer that provides real-time, GPS-tagged reports, testing 14 parameters to identify waterborne diseases within 30 minutes. The affordable testing is available across urban and rural areas.
Environmental Sustainability: Borecharger
Rahul Suresh Bakare and Vinit Moreshwar Phadnis from Pune developed ‘Borecharger’, the world’s first robotic artificial borewell-recharge technique that injects 4 to 80 lakh liters of rainwater into existing borewells annually. This enhances irrigation, farm production, farmer income, drinking water quality and quantity.
Jury Special Award Winners
In addition to category winners, the jury recognized five social innovations, awarding prize money of INR 10 lakh each:
Sukoon
A smart jacket based on a Digital Hybrid-IDEC mechanism, created by Phalgun Mukesh Vyas from Pune.
Comprehensive Wildlife Management Platform
A web-based platform for managing wildlife rescue, treatment, rehabilitation, and release, developed by Neha Panchamiya and Nachiket Utpat from Pune.
Project Bindu
An initiative for creating remote, tech-enabled work ecosystems for persons with disabilities, created by Sowmya S and Pallavi Kulkarni from Pune.
CERVICHECK
India’s first CDSCO-approved at-home self-sampling kit for HPV screening developed by Anirban Palit, Dr. Sayantani Pramanik, and Palna Patel from Vadodara.
Hexis & Iris
India’s only integrated learning ecosystem for visually impaired students combining a unique refreshable Braille display by Nagarajan Rajagopal, Vidhya Y, and Supriya Dey from Bengaluru.
Source: BSE