In a Bengaluru home, an app flags unseen electricity wastage.
In a remote village, a health worker confirms a diagnosis without a lab nearby.
In a factory floor, a worker finds relief from extreme heat.

These moments did not make headlines on their own. Together, they defined innovation in India in 2025.

As the year draws to a close, what stands out is intent. Across the country, innovators responded to everyday challenges with solutions rooted in lived realities. Their ideas moved beyond prototypes and presentations into homes, clinics, farms, factories, and public spaces.

Here are 10 standout Indian innovations of 2025 that translated purpose into practical impact, improving lives across sectors and geographies.

Bengaluru-based engineer Bharath Rnkawat began with a simple question inside his own home: where was electricity being wasted?

Tracking appliance-level usage revealed losses most households never notice. That insight led to Enlog, a smart energy system that monitors consumption, flags inefficiencies, and regulates appliances in real time.

Today, Enlog’s smart system automatically regulates appliances and flags wastage in real time. It has helped over 23,000 users cut electricity consumption by up to 23%, translating into lower bills, reduced emissions, and more mindful energy use across homes and workplaces.

Read their full story here.

Sriram Natarajan and Chandrasekhar Nair, founders of Kochi-based Molbio Diagnostics, set out to solve a critical gap in healthcare — making accurate disease testing accessible beyond well-equipped labs.

The journey began when they saw how delayed and unreliable tuberculosis diagnosis was costing lives, especially in resource-poor settings.

Today, Molbio’s portable diagnostic tools have helped identify over 2.85 lakh TB cases in India, support testing for 40 diseases, and reach communities across 82 countries, bringing

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