November 28th of every year, is what we (Suchirindia Foundation) call “Sankalp Divas” as Dr Y Kron, Founder of Suchirindia Foundation celebrates Sankalp (an objective) of being devoted in serving the society and by felicitating “social reformists” who have served the people of the nation.
Shri. Anna Hazare
He is an Indian social worker. ln 1992, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He was the chief among those who worked for the right to information. Anna started a fast unto death on 16 August 2011 to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed.
Shri. Sunderlal Bahuguna
Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004. He was one of the early environmentalists of India, and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues, such as being opposed to large dams.
Shri. Dr. Sandeep Pandey
Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist and the present General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India). He Co-Founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at IIT Kanpur) and VJP Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught as a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, NALSAR University of Law and Indian Institute of Technology (BHIJ) Varanasi.
Dr. Prakash Amte & Dr. Mandakini Amte
Prakash Baba Amte is a social worker from Maharashtra, India. Amte and his wife, Mandakini Amte, were awarded the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 2008 for their philanthropic work in the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighbouring states ot Téangana and Madhya Pradesh. In November 2019 he was awarded with ICMR Lifetime Achievement Award by Bill Gates.
Shri. Mahesh Chandra Mehta
Mahesh Chandra Mehta is a public interest attorney from India. He single-handedly won numerous landmark judgments from India's Supreme Court since 1984, including introducing lead-free gasoline to India and reducing the industrial pollution fouling the Ganga and eroding the Taj Mahal. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996 for his continuous tights In Indian courts against pollution-causing industries. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Asia for Public Service in 1997. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 2016. He is a trustee of People for Animals.
Shri. Jockin Arputham
Jockin Arputham was an Indian community leader and activist, known for his campaigning work of more than 40 years on issues related to slums and shanty towns. He was born in Karnataka, India and moved to Mumbai, where he quickly became politicized and established himself as a community leader In 2014, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, alongside the organisation he helped to found, Slum Dwellers International.
Shri. Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Chandi Prasad Bhatt is an Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2005. Today he is known for his work on subaltern social ecology, and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize.
Shri. Kulandei Francis
Kulandei Francis is an activist, social worker, and the founder of the NGO Integrated Village Development Project in Tamil Nadu, India. He was one of six recipients of the Magsaysay Award in 2012 for "his profound faith in community energies, and his sustained programs in pursuing the
holistic economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families in rural India".
Dr. Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi is an Indian social activist, former-tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before
taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
SMT. Nafisa Ali Sodhi
Nafisa Ali was born in Kolkata, the daughter of Ahmed Ali, a Bengali Muslim man and Philomena Torresan, a Roman Catholic woman of Anglo-Indian heritage. Nafisa's paternal grandfather, S. Wajid Ali, was a prominent Bengali writer. Her paternal aunt (father's sister) was Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, a Pakistani journalist and feminist. Nafisa is also related to the decorated Bangladeshi freedom fighter and soldier Bir Pratik Akhtar Ahmed.
Dr. Saibaba Goud
Alampur Saibaba Goud is an Indian ophthalmologist and founder-chairman of the Devnar Foundation for the Blind, He is also a social entrepreneur, and active in the voluntary organization at Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh, a state of India. He works in the field of providing aid to visually
challenged and visually disabled children in India. He had won awards for his work and has written several books and articles for the blind in English and Telugu newspapers and journals. He does educational radio talks broadcast on the Doordarshan network In India.
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak
Bindeshwar Pathak is an Indian sociologist and social entrepreneur He is the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organisation which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education. He is the Brand Ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission of Indian Railways, His work is considered pioneering in social reform, especially in the field of sanitation and hygiene. He received various national and international awards for his work with this organisation. He was presented with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2017. As was conferred with Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award in 1991.
Harish Hande
Harish Hande is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SEILCO India in 1995. He was awarded With the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011 for "his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology to the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCO India".
SMT. Laxmi Agarwal
Laxmi Agarwal is an Indian acid attack survivor, a campaigner for rights of acid attack victims, and a TV host. She was attacked in 2005 in New Delhi at the age of 15 years. In 2019, she was honored with the International Women Empowerment Award from the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and UNICEF for her campaign of Stop Acid Sale. In 2014 she received the International Women of Courage award at the hands of First Lady Michelle Obama.
MS. Nandita Das
Nandita Das is an Indian actress and film maker. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007). Her directorial debut Firaaq (2008), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and travelled to more than 50 festivals, winning more than 20 awards. In September 2019, Das produced a two-minute Public Service Announcement music video India's Got Colour The music video is about the issue of colourism and urges the audience to celebrate India's diversity of skin colour.
SMT. Seethakka
Dansari Anasuya, commonly known as Seethakka, is an Indian politician, She was elected to Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 and Telangana Legislative Assembly in 2018 from Mulug assembly constituency. She was appointed as the general secretary of All India Mahila Congress in June 2018 and in August 2019 became state in-charge of Chhattisgarh Mahila Congress.
SMT. Prof. Aruna Roy
Aruna Roy is an Indian social activist, professor, union organiser and former civil servant. She is the president of the National Federation of Indian Women and founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan.
From next year onwards, Sankalp Divas Puraskar will be remodelled and streamlined as “Sankalp Awards” with three versions of the award:
Sankalp Kiron Puraskar
Sankalp Seva Puraskar
Sankalp Siddhi Puraskar