After pursuing a degree in architecture from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, 25 year old Nishan Nazer had a simple question – why do most architects choose not to work in rural India? After being selected for fellowship, he chose to work in the housing sector and joined the NGO Gram Vikas. He was sent to Rudhapadhar village located in Gajapati district of Odisha to check how he could help the tribal community. He was shocked to see the state of the government school in the village. Children walked kilometers through the forest to comee to school just to have midday meals. They had no benches, desks, or even teachers. When Nishan filed an RTI query, he came to know that 45,000 schools in the state lacked basic infrastructure. Though Nishan knew that the solution was as easy as providing infrastructure, the next challenge was availability of space. So he came up with the idea of multi-utility furniture and named it SURFACE. He manufactured over 30-40 SURFACE pieces and had them distributed to schools run by Gram Vikas. The response was priceless as the kids treated it as their priced possession.