Google Inc, the world's most-popular search engine, on Thursday announced Indian winners of its Global Impact Challenge funding.

The Internet search giant announced that 10 Indian non-profit organisations had been selected for a funding of Rs 21 crore under its Global Impact Challenge. Agastya, Indian Digital Green Trust, Janaagraha and Social Awareness-Newer Alternatives (SANA) will receive grants of Rs 3 crore each.

The remaining six non-profit groups will receive Rs 1.5 crore each.

Jacqueline Fuller, who leads Google Giving, "The organisations were short-listed after due diligence by us with use of technology as well as speaking to their funders, peer groups, beneficiaries etc."

The jury that selected winners of the Google Impact Challenge was comprised of Thermax Ltd Chairperson Anu Aga, Google Inc's Senior Vice-President Nikesh Arora, and Jacqueline Fuller of Google Giving that invests more than $50 million per year in tech innovators, among others.

The Challenge was announced in August this year. It attracted nearly 1,000 applications, of which only 10 organisations were short-listed by the jury.

Rikin Gandhi of Digital Green, which provides agricultural training to farmers through audio-video aids, said they would utilize the funds to develop resource centers in around 10,000 villages by the year 2015, in partnership with the Ministry of Rural Development.

SANA's Sanchaita Gajapati Raju said they would utilize the funds to install solar-powered water purification technology in select villages as well as to provide 10 villages with bio-digesting toilets.