Meet the engineers who built Rs 120 lac startup to turn waste into manure
Engineering graduates, Chandan Kagganapalli and Darshan Challuru, built a startup , Ecofinix, to turn organic waste into fertile and nutrient-rich manure. The business clocks an annual turnover of Rs. 120 lac. Every year, over 40 million pilgrims visit Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. The aggregate trash created by the enormous population is around 40 tonnes every day. Residents of the city, Chandan Kagganapalli and Darshan Challuru, were concerned about the rubbish stacking up at the dump yard. To solve the problem, these engineering grads opted to turn the organic waste into fertile and nutrient-rich manure. In 2020, Chandan founded Ecofinix and enlisted Dharsan, together with K Varun Kumar and M Praveen Kumar, to process tons of garbage from the temple town while also encouraging farmers to make the green transition by allowing them to practice chemical-free farming. Dharsan explains, "Chandan and I met in a startup community and quickly connected over our des...