Prashant Lingam and Aruna Lingam are social entrepreneurs from Hyderabad, India, and co-founders of Bamboo House India. Their current social initiative centers around developing sustainable low-cost shelter solutions with plastic waste and providing fair price and enhanced livelihood opportunities to waste-picker communities. 

Bamboo House India aims to utilize bamboo as an economic driver for providing sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal communities at the base of the economic pyramid and uses bamboo as an eco-friendly substitute to wood, steel, iron & plastic. 

In this episode, we learn how their search for an eco-friendly sofa-set for their home took them to a village and Tripura and thus began their journey for starting a business to build bamboo and plastic homes.