On the eve of the International Women's Day, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT's Technology Review India version announced that two female research workers including Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan and Alefia Merchant have become part of esteemed 'India Technology Review 35' list for 2011.

As per reports, Aishwarya and Alefia got this appreciation for their innovational work done in Bangalore.

Bangalore-based Microsoft Scientist Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan introduced a low-priced digital system that allows the users have the ease of utilizing a normal pen and a plain paper to record data and directly store it in the digital form.

In contrast, Alefia Merchant creased a new technique of screening for eye problem in kids under 5.

The widespread advantages of Alefia's work in prevention of sightlessness among kids in the developing nations made the MIT's Technology Review, brought out in India in collaboration with CyberMedia, to list her the 'Humanitarian of the year'.

Merchant's technique uses subsisting, low-priced, and readily-available digital camera technology to take picture of a kid's eye for indications of vision-threatening illnesses as an option to standard medical technology in current use.

The 32-year-old Merchant created this novel technique in 2009-2010 as part of her community pediatric ophthalmology project at the Narayana Nethralaya Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore.

Merchant was the co-researcher of the project together with Ashwin Mallipatna, a consultant pediatric eye surgeon at Narayana Nethralaya.

Aishwarya and Merchant are among the 18 young groundbreakers under 35, who have been selected by a Technology Review India as part of the TR35.

Mr. Narayanan Suresh, Editor of Technology Review India who led the TR35 initiative in India for the second year in a row, stated, "These award-winning young innovators exemplify innovation in business and technology. Each year, the editors of Technology Review honour the TR35, a set of young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Their work - spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more - is changing our world."

The India TR 35 honorees will explain their ground-breaking and inspirational work at the 3rd emerging technologies meet, EmTech India, which will take place on March 22 and 23.

The EmTech meeting will feature renowned professors as well as scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School and several scientists from India.