Meet the friends who quit their jobs to invent solar-powered farming devices
Minushri and Amrita, childhood friends, founded Think Raw Solutions Pvt. Ltd to create revolutionary solar-powered goods with Krishi Dhanu, Dhivara Mitra, and Matsya Bandhu, promising to assist farmers raise output by 30%. Amrita Jagatdeo and Minushri Madhumita are childhood friends from Kalahandi, a western part of Odisha. Minushri did postgraduate studies in Chemistry and a diploma in Management after graduating high school, while Amrita became an electrical engineer with a postgraduate management degree in Finance. After finishing their studies, they pursued various professional routes and worked in the IT sector in Delhi. She felt compelled to work for a good cause. "I wanted to contribute to the advancement of society," she explains. As a result, in 2008, she founded the NGO Bihang to promote computer literacy in Odisha's government schools. However, she had no idea that her desire to help children would lead her to co-found a solar-powered tec...