Vijay Mahajan, one of India’s most successful entrepreneur graduated from IIT Delhi in 1975 and did his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1981. Vijay has been listed in “60 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum 2002; “India’s 50 Most Powerful People” by BusinessWeek, 2009 and among [...]
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India, the agricultural based nation, after 65 years of Independence is able to bring green, silver, and white revolution in production of goods but for better, brighter and sustainable future is fully able to spread the elemental unit of the growth which is primary education. Many of the government policies and agencies have open schools [...]
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It is estimated that India has about 80 lakh (8 million) deaf adults, making us one of the world’s largest deaf population. Only half of them find employment. When they do find employment, for most of them its in the informal sector where they are badly paid, only seasonally hired and treated especially bad for [...]
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Parle-G, India’s premier glucose biscuit, is much more than the world’s largest selling brand of biscuit. Started way back in 1939, Parle-G is not just the oldest and trusted brand names in India, but also a very great example of a real social enterprise. Parle-G is a biscuit which is consumed by people of all [...]
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In India, it is estimated that over 30 crore Indians still do not have access to power in any form. Result is, there day ends early as soon as the sun goes down. In February 2010, the Students in Free Enterprise at H.R.College of Commerce & Economics in Mumbai (SIFE HRC) visited some of these [...]
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Imagine a person getting into the premier most institutes of India, and when all his batch-mates and friends started getting lucrative offers from the big names in the industry, he decided to give up everything for serving the humanity. Vinayak Lohani is the person. Vinayak Lohani did his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur (2000) and MBA [...]
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Imagine the feelings of a mother when she hands her few days old child for a heart operation. In India, about three hundred thousand children suffer from heart disease every year- highest in the world. India requires 25 lakh heart surgeries a year but does only 60,000. What if the family is not financially capable [...]
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Over 88% women in India use unhygienic clothes in their menstrual periods. They can’t afford sanitary napkins that are currently available in market. A. Muruganantham, a school dropout due to poor economic condition made a low cost napkin making machine over a research of 4 years. His machine can be operated by village women and [...]
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Defecation is one of the biggest problems for women in villages. They have to get up early and finish it before sun rises. And if they are ill, it becomes immensely troublesome. To solve this problem, government encourages villagers to have toilets in their houses or to have community toilets in communities. All across the [...]
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The global hunger index placed India at number 67 among the 80 countries having the worst hunger situation. While on the one side 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight, on the other side more than 11% of the people in India are overweight. “Health is wealth” the slogan which is renowned [...]
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Every second child is sexually abused in India. According to the national study on child abuse in 2007, 53.22% of the children surveyed across India reported one or more forms of sexual abuse. Data collected under a study by Govt. of India shows that one out of 3 girls had been sexually abused in childhood. [...]
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RTI is definitely a powerful tool. Now you can view tour details of all our ministers and senior bureaucrats online and know how much of tax-payers money is being spent on these official tours. Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on tuesday directed all public-authorities under Central Government including even President Secretariat to put all details of [...]
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