Lucknow, March 30 -- Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi, the Director of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, Phaltan, Maharashtra has been given the prestigious PAN IIT impact award 2026.
The award will be presented to him at PAN IIT meet in Long Beach, California on April 24, 2026. The other awardees include Vinod Khosla and other prominent stalwarts of Silicon Valley, California.
Dr. Rajvanshi was born and raised in Lucknow. He did his schooling in St Francis High School and in 1967 went to IIT Kanpur to do his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering. In 1974 he went to USA for his Ph.D. in Solar Energy and returned to rural Maharashtra in 1981.
He has done pioneering work in rural development and is the inventor of e-rickshaw among ot...