Our Ph.D. students, Pankaj Kataria and Soumya Verma, along with Sumandeep Kumar of Sakshi Plasto Craft Industries, members of Team Plasricks, mentored by Prof. Parijat Lanke, have ranked among the top 5 teams (in no order) and won a cash prize of INR 1 lakh in the “Ideas to Impact” challenge organized by IIT Madras, the School of Sustainability IIT Madras, Wipro Foundation, and Wipro Earthian.