Two IIM-Bengaluru graduates who would have earned millions working for a multi-national bank or an investment company put their heart and soul in finding solutions for a social environment cause. When they started out in 2010, Mainak Chakraborty and Sreekrishna Sankar moonlighted for a few months on many ideas but finally picked up the challenge of tackling solid wet waste dumped on the streets of Bengaluru.

According to them, the existing systems for disposing wet waste and generating biogas were defunct and non-efficient. So they decided to develop a holistic and clean technological solution that could be installed in urban and rural environments. It took them three years from 2010 to develop the Biourja system, a pre-fabricated end-to-end solution suite that can be monitored remotely. “If the technology is right, waste can be tackled by the private sector and the government need not do it alone,” says 32-year-old Chakraborty..................Read more

Source: The New Indian Express