New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi) professor Kavya Dashora has bagged the first prize in Innovate4SDG contest by ‘UNDP Accelerator Lab India’.
The Centre for Rural Development and Technology professor was awarded for her innovation of plant-based mock egg, the institute tweeted.
Innovation of plant based mock egg by Prof. Kavya Dashora, Centre for Rural Development and Technology, #IITDelhi has secured first prize in Innovate4SDG contest by ‘UNDP Accelerator Lab India’.
Congratulations, Prof Kavya Dashora ! pic.twitter.com/aFcZwizBPV
— IIT Delhi (@iitdelhi) December 21, 2020
The professor was richer by a sum of $5000 and was awarded online by Head of Economic Cooperation & Development, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, New Delhi, Ms Christiane Hieronymus and Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India, Professor K VijayRaghavan.
As per the United Nations Development Programme, the mock egg innovation is a perfect innovation that will help in accelerating progress towards the SDGs. Besides the egg, the IIT Delhi scientist has also developed the meat analogues for chicken and fish from plant sources using fruits and vegetables.