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Sustainability · INDIA

Aishi Prisha Borah

Natural farming and mulching

14 in the 26 December 2025 award report

Assam · India

Aishi Prisha Borah receiving the Bal Puraskar scroll from President Droupadi Murmu
Aishi Prisha Borah receives the Bal Puraskar scroll from President Droupadi Murmu
Image source ↗ · Borok Times
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BEHIND THE RESULT

The recognition

The December 2025 government award report identifies Aishi Prisha Borah, 14, from Jorhat in Assam, as a Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar recipient in Science and Technology. It describes work involving natural farming, newspaper mulching and a machine for making pencils from waste newspaper.

From an idea to a question

The source also lists science exhibitions at which her work appeared. It does not supply the independent performance measurements needed to describe a product as commercially proven or to promise environmental savings. The story we can tell now is about the documented projects and their recognition.

A spark to explore

Look at a material that is regularly thrown away around you. What other use might it have? Then ask a harder question: what evidence would show that the new use is useful? A labelled sketch and a list of unanswered questions can be the start of an investigation. This activity is our editorial suggestion, not a claim about Aishi’s process.

Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.

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The achievement, in context.

Sources you can explore.

PIB Guwahati · 26 December 2025 ↗Government award report

Original source ↗

Another spark to discover.

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Femina ↗Source photograph · see credit