Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan: An autonomous, secular, rights-based organisation that fights for the rights of Muslim women.
Sridhar Vembu: His company, Zoho, competes with the likes of Microsoft, Google and Salesforce with its SaaS products, which are used by over 30 million customers. Zoho’s products are made not just by top engineers but by people from economically poor backgrounds
Ekam Foundation: A not-for-profit organisation working to improve public healthcare and lower child/maternal mortality.
GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute: It has changed the way emergencies are handled with its 108 service, India’s first mass-scale emergency response mechanism.
Centre for Aquatic Livelihood – Jaljeevika: This Pune-based NGO promotes entrepreneurship in inland fisheries as an alternative for those otherwise dependent solely on rain-fed agriculture.
Cochin International Airport: The first greenfield airport built in PPP mode and the first in the world operating entirely on solar power.
Energy Efficiency Services Ltd: A joint venture of PSUs, which is helping drive energy efficiency in India. Its appliances and technologies have saved over 35 billion kWh of energy a year.