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YOJANA   February 2023 43
n recent time, the world has started viewing 
the youth as a vital demography and a 
powerful agent of change and progress. They 
have the power to shape policy, influence 
markets and reimagine social structures. Youth are at the 
forefront of harnessing the power of technology in all 
spheres and serve as a critical component in the larger 
vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
1
Youth Icons of India
(Technology, Spacetech & Sports)
I
“The whole world is looking at India’s youth with hope. Because you are the growth engine of 
the country and India is the world’s growth engine. This is a huge honour and responsibility on 
all of you. ”
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi
success stories Science & Technology
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
2
 was honoured with 
Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in trade 
and industry. India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh 
Sandhu while handing over the award to Pichai in San 
Francisco, said that his “inspirational journey reaffirms 
Indian talent’s contribution to global innovation”. On 
Image Source : Freepik
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YOJANA   February 2023 43
n recent time, the world has started viewing 
the youth as a vital demography and a 
powerful agent of change and progress. They 
have the power to shape policy, influence 
markets and reimagine social structures. Youth are at the 
forefront of harnessing the power of technology in all 
spheres and serve as a critical component in the larger 
vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
1
Youth Icons of India
(Technology, Spacetech & Sports)
I
“The whole world is looking at India’s youth with hope. Because you are the growth engine of 
the country and India is the world’s growth engine. This is a huge honour and responsibility on 
all of you. ”
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi
success stories Science & Technology
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
2
 was honoured with 
Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in trade 
and industry. India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh 
Sandhu while handing over the award to Pichai in San 
Francisco, said that his “inspirational journey reaffirms 
Indian talent’s contribution to global innovation”. On 
Image Source : Freepik
44 YOJANA   February 2023
9 December 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 
Sundar Pichai and discussed innovation & technology 
among other things.
3
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was also honoured 
with Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in 
trade and industries. He received the award from India’s 
Consul General in San Francisco, Dr TV Nagendra Prasad. 
Satya Nadella thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 
people of India for the award. He said that he looks forward 
to continuing to work with people across India to help them 
use technology to achieve more.
4
Naveen Tiwari founded Glance in 2019. Glance 
is a consumer internet company that has created highly 
disruptive digital platforms including Glance and 
Roposo. Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an 
unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded 
by Jio Platforms, Google and Mithril Capital. Glance is 
one of Asia’s largest lock screen platforms.  Over 400 
million smartphones now come enabled with Glance’s 
next-generation internet experience. Glance’s AI-
powered personalisation enables consumers to enjoy 
content, products, and services of their choice, all 
delivered in an intuitive and visually attractive format 
on the lock screen of their smartphones. Glance can be 
credited for redefining the way internet is consumed on 
the lock screen, removing the need for searching and 
downloading apps. 
Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath have built 
a full-service discount brokerage business which, last 
year, on the revenue of Rs 4,300 crore raked in a net 
profit of Rs 1,800 crore. Sons of a middle-class Canara 
Bank employee, the Kamath brothers, in a little over a 
decade, have become a force to reckon with on India’s 
financial landscape, having built ‘Zerodha’ with zero 
external capital.
Ravi Ramu Patel developed a Translator robot that 
can translate 14 different languages. He did this after 
winning a district-level competition for an IIOT-based 
home automation model that syncs smart home appliances 
with voice commands. The son of a pool cleaner, Ravi 
first learned about robotics in eighth grade after going to 
a Salaam Bombay Foundation programme. Ravi worked 
independently on a variety of projects, from a cardboard 
and LED model house to several Smartphone-based 
games. His most recent invention is the robot translator 
named ‘TORO’. The unique feature of the translator is that 
one does not have to choose the language for translation—
it can discern the target language from your voice and 
respond in it.
5
Spacetech
On 23 June 2017, India broke a global space record 
by launching the world’s lightest satellite weighing 
a mere 64 grams, called ‘KalamSat’, designed and 
developed not by professional space scientists and 
engineers, but by a 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student 
and his team. The tiny satellite, named after A.P.J. 
Abdul Kalam, was flown by a sounding rocket and 
the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island 
facility around 3 pm (IST). Weighing just 64 grams, 
the satellite was designed by Rifath Sharook along 
with six other teammates. The satellite, which is lighter 
than a smartphone and made of reinforced carbon fibre 
polymer, operated for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity 
environment of space after its flight.
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YOJANA   February 2023 43
n recent time, the world has started viewing 
the youth as a vital demography and a 
powerful agent of change and progress. They 
have the power to shape policy, influence 
markets and reimagine social structures. Youth are at the 
forefront of harnessing the power of technology in all 
spheres and serve as a critical component in the larger 
vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
1
Youth Icons of India
(Technology, Spacetech & Sports)
I
“The whole world is looking at India’s youth with hope. Because you are the growth engine of 
the country and India is the world’s growth engine. This is a huge honour and responsibility on 
all of you. ”
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi
success stories Science & Technology
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
2
 was honoured with 
Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in trade 
and industry. India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh 
Sandhu while handing over the award to Pichai in San 
Francisco, said that his “inspirational journey reaffirms 
Indian talent’s contribution to global innovation”. On 
Image Source : Freepik
44 YOJANA   February 2023
9 December 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 
Sundar Pichai and discussed innovation & technology 
among other things.
3
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was also honoured 
with Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in 
trade and industries. He received the award from India’s 
Consul General in San Francisco, Dr TV Nagendra Prasad. 
Satya Nadella thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 
people of India for the award. He said that he looks forward 
to continuing to work with people across India to help them 
use technology to achieve more.
4
Naveen Tiwari founded Glance in 2019. Glance 
is a consumer internet company that has created highly 
disruptive digital platforms including Glance and 
Roposo. Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an 
unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded 
by Jio Platforms, Google and Mithril Capital. Glance is 
one of Asia’s largest lock screen platforms.  Over 400 
million smartphones now come enabled with Glance’s 
next-generation internet experience. Glance’s AI-
powered personalisation enables consumers to enjoy 
content, products, and services of their choice, all 
delivered in an intuitive and visually attractive format 
on the lock screen of their smartphones. Glance can be 
credited for redefining the way internet is consumed on 
the lock screen, removing the need for searching and 
downloading apps. 
Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath have built 
a full-service discount brokerage business which, last 
year, on the revenue of Rs 4,300 crore raked in a net 
profit of Rs 1,800 crore. Sons of a middle-class Canara 
Bank employee, the Kamath brothers, in a little over a 
decade, have become a force to reckon with on India’s 
financial landscape, having built ‘Zerodha’ with zero 
external capital.
Ravi Ramu Patel developed a Translator robot that 
can translate 14 different languages. He did this after 
winning a district-level competition for an IIOT-based 
home automation model that syncs smart home appliances 
with voice commands. The son of a pool cleaner, Ravi 
first learned about robotics in eighth grade after going to 
a Salaam Bombay Foundation programme. Ravi worked 
independently on a variety of projects, from a cardboard 
and LED model house to several Smartphone-based 
games. His most recent invention is the robot translator 
named ‘TORO’. The unique feature of the translator is that 
one does not have to choose the language for translation—
it can discern the target language from your voice and 
respond in it.
5
Spacetech
On 23 June 2017, India broke a global space record 
by launching the world’s lightest satellite weighing 
a mere 64 grams, called ‘KalamSat’, designed and 
developed not by professional space scientists and 
engineers, but by a 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student 
and his team. The tiny satellite, named after A.P.J. 
Abdul Kalam, was flown by a sounding rocket and 
the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island 
facility around 3 pm (IST). Weighing just 64 grams, 
the satellite was designed by Rifath Sharook along 
with six other teammates. The satellite, which is lighter 
than a smartphone and made of reinforced carbon fibre 
polymer, operated for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity 
environment of space after its flight.
YOJANA   February 2023 45
On 1 July 2022, 17-year-old Snehadeep Kumar 
was awarded the Kentucky Colonel, by the United States 
Government, courtesy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
He is one of the few Indians to receive the honour, which 
has been given to icons like Muhammed Ali, Bob Dylan, 
Ansel Adams, George Clooney and George HW Bush. 
In 2021, the aspiring young astrophysicist founded the 
Nebula Space Organisation, a first of its kind, student-run 
initiative.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur, Nikhitha C, has co-
founded the hugely popular Society for Space Education 
Research and Development (SSERD) – an NGO and the 
startup, GenexSpace with the vision to train students in the 
field of space education and outreach in India and abroad. 
It all began while pursuing bachelor’s degree in aerospace 
engineering from Alliance University in Bangalore that 
she started a space club in her college in 2016, teaching 
subjects like model rocketry to students.
Sports
At Commonwealth Games 2022, India finished fourth 
in the overall medals tally with a total of 61 medals including 
22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.
6
 Indian contingent gave 
a commendable performance at the games, winning 
unexpected medals in sports like lawn bowls, judo and 
athletics. Wrestling topped the medal chart with 12 medals 
including six gold while weightlifting accounted for 10 
medals. The Men’s Hockey team won silver, which was 
the last medal of Commonwealth Games 2022 for India in 
this edition.The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu 
presented the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2022 
on 30 November 2022.
7
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022 was 
conferred to Sharath Kamal Achanta
8
 (Born in July, 
1982). He is one of the most outstanding Table Tennis 
players of the country. He has won three gold medals 
(Individual, Mix Doubles & Team) and one silver medal 
in Commonwealth Games, 2022. Previously, he had 
won two bronze medals (Mix Doubles & Team) in Asian 
Games 2018 and one gold medal (Team), one silver medal 
(Mix Doubles) and one bronze medal (Individual) in 
Commonwealth Games 2018.
This year 25 athletes across the Olympic sports, 
Paralympic sports and Deaflympics sports have received 
the Arjuna Awards.
9
Seema Punia (Born in July, 1983) received Arjuna 
Award 2022 for her outstanding performance in the 
discipline of Athletics. She won the silver medal in 
Commonwealth Games, 2018 and bronze medal in Asian 
Games, 2019. Other awards given out to her include the 
Dronacharya Award, Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime 
Achievement in Sports and Games, the Rashtriya Khel 
Protsahan Puruskar, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy 
as well as the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award.
23-year-old Neeraj Chopra created history by wining 
India’s first ever athletics Gold in men’s javelin throw 
at Tokyo Olympics 2020. Chopra gave his best throw of 
87.58 m to bag the gold medal. With this, he has become 
the first Indian athlete to win gold ever in athletics and 
India’s second ever individual Olympic gold medalist 
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YOJANA   February 2023 43
n recent time, the world has started viewing 
the youth as a vital demography and a 
powerful agent of change and progress. They 
have the power to shape policy, influence 
markets and reimagine social structures. Youth are at the 
forefront of harnessing the power of technology in all 
spheres and serve as a critical component in the larger 
vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
1
Youth Icons of India
(Technology, Spacetech & Sports)
I
“The whole world is looking at India’s youth with hope. Because you are the growth engine of 
the country and India is the world’s growth engine. This is a huge honour and responsibility on 
all of you. ”
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi
success stories Science & Technology
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
2
 was honoured with 
Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in trade 
and industry. India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh 
Sandhu while handing over the award to Pichai in San 
Francisco, said that his “inspirational journey reaffirms 
Indian talent’s contribution to global innovation”. On 
Image Source : Freepik
44 YOJANA   February 2023
9 December 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 
Sundar Pichai and discussed innovation & technology 
among other things.
3
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was also honoured 
with Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in 
trade and industries. He received the award from India’s 
Consul General in San Francisco, Dr TV Nagendra Prasad. 
Satya Nadella thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 
people of India for the award. He said that he looks forward 
to continuing to work with people across India to help them 
use technology to achieve more.
4
Naveen Tiwari founded Glance in 2019. Glance 
is a consumer internet company that has created highly 
disruptive digital platforms including Glance and 
Roposo. Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an 
unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded 
by Jio Platforms, Google and Mithril Capital. Glance is 
one of Asia’s largest lock screen platforms.  Over 400 
million smartphones now come enabled with Glance’s 
next-generation internet experience. Glance’s AI-
powered personalisation enables consumers to enjoy 
content, products, and services of their choice, all 
delivered in an intuitive and visually attractive format 
on the lock screen of their smartphones. Glance can be 
credited for redefining the way internet is consumed on 
the lock screen, removing the need for searching and 
downloading apps. 
Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath have built 
a full-service discount brokerage business which, last 
year, on the revenue of Rs 4,300 crore raked in a net 
profit of Rs 1,800 crore. Sons of a middle-class Canara 
Bank employee, the Kamath brothers, in a little over a 
decade, have become a force to reckon with on India’s 
financial landscape, having built ‘Zerodha’ with zero 
external capital.
Ravi Ramu Patel developed a Translator robot that 
can translate 14 different languages. He did this after 
winning a district-level competition for an IIOT-based 
home automation model that syncs smart home appliances 
with voice commands. The son of a pool cleaner, Ravi 
first learned about robotics in eighth grade after going to 
a Salaam Bombay Foundation programme. Ravi worked 
independently on a variety of projects, from a cardboard 
and LED model house to several Smartphone-based 
games. His most recent invention is the robot translator 
named ‘TORO’. The unique feature of the translator is that 
one does not have to choose the language for translation—
it can discern the target language from your voice and 
respond in it.
5
Spacetech
On 23 June 2017, India broke a global space record 
by launching the world’s lightest satellite weighing 
a mere 64 grams, called ‘KalamSat’, designed and 
developed not by professional space scientists and 
engineers, but by a 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student 
and his team. The tiny satellite, named after A.P.J. 
Abdul Kalam, was flown by a sounding rocket and 
the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island 
facility around 3 pm (IST). Weighing just 64 grams, 
the satellite was designed by Rifath Sharook along 
with six other teammates. The satellite, which is lighter 
than a smartphone and made of reinforced carbon fibre 
polymer, operated for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity 
environment of space after its flight.
YOJANA   February 2023 45
On 1 July 2022, 17-year-old Snehadeep Kumar 
was awarded the Kentucky Colonel, by the United States 
Government, courtesy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
He is one of the few Indians to receive the honour, which 
has been given to icons like Muhammed Ali, Bob Dylan, 
Ansel Adams, George Clooney and George HW Bush. 
In 2021, the aspiring young astrophysicist founded the 
Nebula Space Organisation, a first of its kind, student-run 
initiative.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur, Nikhitha C, has co-
founded the hugely popular Society for Space Education 
Research and Development (SSERD) – an NGO and the 
startup, GenexSpace with the vision to train students in the 
field of space education and outreach in India and abroad. 
It all began while pursuing bachelor’s degree in aerospace 
engineering from Alliance University in Bangalore that 
she started a space club in her college in 2016, teaching 
subjects like model rocketry to students.
Sports
At Commonwealth Games 2022, India finished fourth 
in the overall medals tally with a total of 61 medals including 
22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.
6
 Indian contingent gave 
a commendable performance at the games, winning 
unexpected medals in sports like lawn bowls, judo and 
athletics. Wrestling topped the medal chart with 12 medals 
including six gold while weightlifting accounted for 10 
medals. The Men’s Hockey team won silver, which was 
the last medal of Commonwealth Games 2022 for India in 
this edition.The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu 
presented the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2022 
on 30 November 2022.
7
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022 was 
conferred to Sharath Kamal Achanta
8
 (Born in July, 
1982). He is one of the most outstanding Table Tennis 
players of the country. He has won three gold medals 
(Individual, Mix Doubles & Team) and one silver medal 
in Commonwealth Games, 2022. Previously, he had 
won two bronze medals (Mix Doubles & Team) in Asian 
Games 2018 and one gold medal (Team), one silver medal 
(Mix Doubles) and one bronze medal (Individual) in 
Commonwealth Games 2018.
This year 25 athletes across the Olympic sports, 
Paralympic sports and Deaflympics sports have received 
the Arjuna Awards.
9
Seema Punia (Born in July, 1983) received Arjuna 
Award 2022 for her outstanding performance in the 
discipline of Athletics. She won the silver medal in 
Commonwealth Games, 2018 and bronze medal in Asian 
Games, 2019. Other awards given out to her include the 
Dronacharya Award, Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime 
Achievement in Sports and Games, the Rashtriya Khel 
Protsahan Puruskar, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy 
as well as the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award.
23-year-old Neeraj Chopra created history by wining 
India’s first ever athletics Gold in men’s javelin throw 
at Tokyo Olympics 2020. Chopra gave his best throw of 
87.58 m to bag the gold medal. With this, he has become 
the first Indian athlete to win gold ever in athletics and 
India’s second ever individual Olympic gold medalist 
46 YOJANA   February 2023
after shooter Abhinav Bindra, who bagged gold in Beijing 
2008.
 
With this outstanding performance, Neeraj also took 
India’s medal haul to seven in the Tokyo Olympics— the 
country’s highest ever, beating the tally of six medals won 
at the London Games in 2012.
10
Indian teen Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa made 
history by defeating the noted World Chess Champion 
Magnus Carlsen of Norway. The match was held on 23 
February 2022 in an online setting as part of the Airthings 
Masters (part of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 
events being held in 2022). At the young age of 16, R 
Praggnanandhaa completed the feat in 39 moves. Apart 
from Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna, he 
is only the third Indian to defeat Magnus Carlsen.
11
 
Praggnanandhaa has three world youth titles: U8 in 2013, 
U10 in 2015, and U18 in 2019. In 2019, the 13-year-old 
prodigy won the Xtracon Chess Open with an undefeated 
8.5/10 points, overtaking a field featuring 13 GMs ranked 
over 2600. In April 2021, he won the Polgar Challenge and 
qualified for the next leg in the Champions Chess Tour.
 
He won a bronze medal with the Indian team at the 2022 
FIDE Olympiad, scoring 6.5/9 on the third board for a 
performance rating of 2767. Later in 2022, he won the 
Asian Continental Chess Championship.                          ?
(PIB Research unit)
Endnotes 
1. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/specificdocs/docu-
ments/2022/may/doc20225553401.pdf
2. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1792640
3. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1884948
4. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1792640
5.  https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/stories-of-change-detail.htm?323
6. https://newsonair.com/2022/08/09/curtains-come-down-on-22nd-
commonwealth-games-india-finish-fourth-overall-with-61-medals-
including-22-gold/
7. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1880090
8. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/Sportsandad-
ventureawards2022GFXF.pdf
9. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1880090
10. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1743629
11. https://ddnews.gov.in/sports/16-yrs-old-indian-chess-player-r-prag-
gnanandhaa-stuns-world-no1-magnus-carlsen
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December 2022.
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Drone Rules, 2021 dated 26 August 2021.
4. PIB Press Release on PM inaugurates India’s biggest Drone 
Festival- Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 dated 27 May 2022.
5. PIB Press Release on The Government has prepared a new draft of 
National Youth Policy dated 19 July 2022.
6. PIB Press Release on Introduction of National Youth Policy-2014 
dated 09 January 2014.
7. PIB Press Release on Year End Review: Department of Youth 
Affairs dated 28 December 2021.
8. PIB Press Release on Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announces 
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n recent time, the world has started viewing 
the youth as a vital demography and a 
powerful agent of change and progress. They 
have the power to shape policy, influence 
markets and reimagine social structures. Youth are at the 
forefront of harnessing the power of technology in all 
spheres and serve as a critical component in the larger 
vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
1
Youth Icons of India
(Technology, Spacetech & Sports)
I
“The whole world is looking at India’s youth with hope. Because you are the growth engine of 
the country and India is the world’s growth engine. This is a huge honour and responsibility on 
all of you. ”
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi
success stories Science & Technology
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
2
 was honoured with 
Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in trade 
and industry. India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh 
Sandhu while handing over the award to Pichai in San 
Francisco, said that his “inspirational journey reaffirms 
Indian talent’s contribution to global innovation”. On 
Image Source : Freepik
44 YOJANA   February 2023
9 December 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 
Sundar Pichai and discussed innovation & technology 
among other things.
3
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was also honoured 
with Padma Bhushan Award 2022 for his contribution in 
trade and industries. He received the award from India’s 
Consul General in San Francisco, Dr TV Nagendra Prasad. 
Satya Nadella thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 
people of India for the award. He said that he looks forward 
to continuing to work with people across India to help them 
use technology to achieve more.
4
Naveen Tiwari founded Glance in 2019. Glance 
is a consumer internet company that has created highly 
disruptive digital platforms including Glance and 
Roposo. Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an 
unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded 
by Jio Platforms, Google and Mithril Capital. Glance is 
one of Asia’s largest lock screen platforms.  Over 400 
million smartphones now come enabled with Glance’s 
next-generation internet experience. Glance’s AI-
powered personalisation enables consumers to enjoy 
content, products, and services of their choice, all 
delivered in an intuitive and visually attractive format 
on the lock screen of their smartphones. Glance can be 
credited for redefining the way internet is consumed on 
the lock screen, removing the need for searching and 
downloading apps. 
Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath have built 
a full-service discount brokerage business which, last 
year, on the revenue of Rs 4,300 crore raked in a net 
profit of Rs 1,800 crore. Sons of a middle-class Canara 
Bank employee, the Kamath brothers, in a little over a 
decade, have become a force to reckon with on India’s 
financial landscape, having built ‘Zerodha’ with zero 
external capital.
Ravi Ramu Patel developed a Translator robot that 
can translate 14 different languages. He did this after 
winning a district-level competition for an IIOT-based 
home automation model that syncs smart home appliances 
with voice commands. The son of a pool cleaner, Ravi 
first learned about robotics in eighth grade after going to 
a Salaam Bombay Foundation programme. Ravi worked 
independently on a variety of projects, from a cardboard 
and LED model house to several Smartphone-based 
games. His most recent invention is the robot translator 
named ‘TORO’. The unique feature of the translator is that 
one does not have to choose the language for translation—
it can discern the target language from your voice and 
respond in it.
5
Spacetech
On 23 June 2017, India broke a global space record 
by launching the world’s lightest satellite weighing 
a mere 64 grams, called ‘KalamSat’, designed and 
developed not by professional space scientists and 
engineers, but by a 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student 
and his team. The tiny satellite, named after A.P.J. 
Abdul Kalam, was flown by a sounding rocket and 
the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island 
facility around 3 pm (IST). Weighing just 64 grams, 
the satellite was designed by Rifath Sharook along 
with six other teammates. The satellite, which is lighter 
than a smartphone and made of reinforced carbon fibre 
polymer, operated for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity 
environment of space after its flight.
YOJANA   February 2023 45
On 1 July 2022, 17-year-old Snehadeep Kumar 
was awarded the Kentucky Colonel, by the United States 
Government, courtesy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
He is one of the few Indians to receive the honour, which 
has been given to icons like Muhammed Ali, Bob Dylan, 
Ansel Adams, George Clooney and George HW Bush. 
In 2021, the aspiring young astrophysicist founded the 
Nebula Space Organisation, a first of its kind, student-run 
initiative.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur, Nikhitha C, has co-
founded the hugely popular Society for Space Education 
Research and Development (SSERD) – an NGO and the 
startup, GenexSpace with the vision to train students in the 
field of space education and outreach in India and abroad. 
It all began while pursuing bachelor’s degree in aerospace 
engineering from Alliance University in Bangalore that 
she started a space club in her college in 2016, teaching 
subjects like model rocketry to students.
Sports
At Commonwealth Games 2022, India finished fourth 
in the overall medals tally with a total of 61 medals including 
22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.
6
 Indian contingent gave 
a commendable performance at the games, winning 
unexpected medals in sports like lawn bowls, judo and 
athletics. Wrestling topped the medal chart with 12 medals 
including six gold while weightlifting accounted for 10 
medals. The Men’s Hockey team won silver, which was 
the last medal of Commonwealth Games 2022 for India in 
this edition.The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu 
presented the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2022 
on 30 November 2022.
7
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022 was 
conferred to Sharath Kamal Achanta
8
 (Born in July, 
1982). He is one of the most outstanding Table Tennis 
players of the country. He has won three gold medals 
(Individual, Mix Doubles & Team) and one silver medal 
in Commonwealth Games, 2022. Previously, he had 
won two bronze medals (Mix Doubles & Team) in Asian 
Games 2018 and one gold medal (Team), one silver medal 
(Mix Doubles) and one bronze medal (Individual) in 
Commonwealth Games 2018.
This year 25 athletes across the Olympic sports, 
Paralympic sports and Deaflympics sports have received 
the Arjuna Awards.
9
Seema Punia (Born in July, 1983) received Arjuna 
Award 2022 for her outstanding performance in the 
discipline of Athletics. She won the silver medal in 
Commonwealth Games, 2018 and bronze medal in Asian 
Games, 2019. Other awards given out to her include the 
Dronacharya Award, Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime 
Achievement in Sports and Games, the Rashtriya Khel 
Protsahan Puruskar, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy 
as well as the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award.
23-year-old Neeraj Chopra created history by wining 
India’s first ever athletics Gold in men’s javelin throw 
at Tokyo Olympics 2020. Chopra gave his best throw of 
87.58 m to bag the gold medal. With this, he has become 
the first Indian athlete to win gold ever in athletics and 
India’s second ever individual Olympic gold medalist 
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after shooter Abhinav Bindra, who bagged gold in Beijing 
2008.
 
With this outstanding performance, Neeraj also took 
India’s medal haul to seven in the Tokyo Olympics— the 
country’s highest ever, beating the tally of six medals won 
at the London Games in 2012.
10
Indian teen Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa made 
history by defeating the noted World Chess Champion 
Magnus Carlsen of Norway. The match was held on 23 
February 2022 in an online setting as part of the Airthings 
Masters (part of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 
events being held in 2022). At the young age of 16, R 
Praggnanandhaa completed the feat in 39 moves. Apart 
from Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna, he 
is only the third Indian to defeat Magnus Carlsen.
11
 
Praggnanandhaa has three world youth titles: U8 in 2013, 
U10 in 2015, and U18 in 2019. In 2019, the 13-year-old 
prodigy won the Xtracon Chess Open with an undefeated 
8.5/10 points, overtaking a field featuring 13 GMs ranked 
over 2600. In April 2021, he won the Polgar Challenge and 
qualified for the next leg in the Champions Chess Tour.
 
He won a bronze medal with the Indian team at the 2022 
FIDE Olympiad, scoring 6.5/9 on the third board for a 
performance rating of 2767. Later in 2022, he won the 
Asian Continental Chess Championship.                          ?
(PIB Research unit)
Endnotes 
1. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/specificdocs/docu-
ments/2022/may/doc20225553401.pdf
2. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1792640
3. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1884948
4. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1792640
5.  https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/stories-of-change-detail.htm?323
6. https://newsonair.com/2022/08/09/curtains-come-down-on-22nd-
commonwealth-games-india-finish-fourth-overall-with-61-medals-
including-22-gold/
7. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1880090
8. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/Sportsandad-
ventureawards2022GFXF.pdf
9. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1880090
10. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1743629
11. https://ddnews.gov.in/sports/16-yrs-old-indian-chess-player-r-prag-
gnanandhaa-stuns-world-no1-magnus-carlsen
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articipatory Governance is based on citizens’ 
involvement and voice in policy formulation, 
implementation and governance that impacts 
or influences them. From the district to 
the national level, the participation of citizens acts as a 
Feedback Loop for respective governments to formulate 
appropriate action-plans and to amend them, whenever 
necessary. The Government is more effective and makes 
better decisions when the public is involved; citizens also 
profit from having access to the knowledge widely spread 
in society.
India has one of the largest youth 
populations in the world; around  
66 per cent of the total population is 
below the age of 35. India’s demographic 
dividend is pivotal in propelling economic 
and societal growth. It is imperative to 
involve youth in participatory governance 
because youth may be a fraction of the 
population in the present, but they are 100 
per cent of our future. Youth involvement 
in participatory governance is critical to 
building civic capacity and long-term 
community sustainability. When youth develop valuable 
skills and build self-confidence, we prosper multi-fold as 
a country. The Hon’ble Prime Minister has emphasised, 
“Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-
people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at 
the centre of the development process.” 
Leading India towards Techade
Akash Tripathi
P
p articipator Y goverNaNce To place people at the centre of development, the 
Hon’ble Prime Minister launched MyGov on 26
 
July 2014. MyGov is Government of India’s citizen 
engagement platform. It works with numerous 
government organisations and ministries to involve 
citizens in the policy-making process and solicit their 
opinions on matters and subjects that are important to the 
welfare of the general public. MyGov has not just aptly 
used technology to reach out to the masses but has also 
developed avenues through which citizens from the flip 
side of the Digital Era can be a part of this collaborative 
platform. MyGov has adopted multiple 
engagement methods like discussions, 
tasks, polls, surveys, blogs, talks, 
pledges, quizzes and on-ground 
activities by innovatively using the 
internet, mobile apps, IVRS, SMS and 
Outbound Dialling (OBD) technologies 
for reaching out to the citizens. MyGov 
has also launched State instances in 19 
States and has over 2.9 crores registered 
Saathis (companions). 
The youth is the backbone 
of MyGov’s outreach platform. MyGov facilitates 
participatory governance or Jan Bhagidari by:
• y Information Dissemination: One of the significant 
hindrances in policy implementation is reaching 
out to the last beneficiary in the line. Inability to 
disseminate information effectively often results in 
India, being the world’s largest democracy, is embedded with the values of  Sarvodaya  and  
Antyodaya. Sarvodaya is a compound word comprised of sarva (all) and udaya (rise/uplift) which 
means rise/upliftment of every citizen. Antyodaya signifies the rise of the last person standing 
in the line. These values cannot be achieved by a single organisation, company, individual or 
Government; these values can be accomplished when every stakeholder in our country joins hands 
to work for the greater good. Sarvodaya and Antyodaya can be achieved through participatory 
governance, and the same is the backbone of democracy. 
The author is CEO of MyGov. Email:ceo@mygov.in
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