  The IIT Kanpur Consulting Group is one of the pioneering research groups in
India which focuses on the applications of Machine Learning and Strategy
Consulting for social good. The group has been working since 2018 to help
social organizations, nonprofits, and government entities in India leverage
better insights from their data, with a special emphasis on the healthcare,
environmental, and agriculture sectors. The group has worked on critical social
problems which India is facing including Polio recurrence, COVID-19, air
pollution and agricultural crop damage. This position paper summarises the
focus areas and relevant projects which the group has worked on since its
establishment, and also highlights the group's plans for using machine learning
to address social problems during the COVID-19 crisis.
