DM2014 – Finalists

S.N. Organization Name Title
1 SELCO India Last Mile Delivery of Energy Solutions through Micro-Entrepreneurs in Meghalaya
2 iKure Techsoft (P) Ltd Using ICT to enable affordable primary care for rural communities
3 ERC Eye Care Accessible, Affordable eye care to North-East India
4 BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited Financial Inclusion Through Technology Enabled Branchless Banking in North-East India
5 Dhriiti – The Courage Within Farmpreneur – Let’s grow our food
6 Seven Sisters Development Assistance (SeSTA) Women’s Collectives Led Processes for Alleviating Poverty and Malnourishment
7 Mann Deshi Foundation Provision of Financial Inclusion and Financial Literacy for Women Entrepreneurs
8 Tamul Plates Marketing Private Limited Improving Energy access and market linkage of arecanut leafplate producers
9 Nishant Bioenergy P Ltd Establishing Sustainable Clean Energy Enterprises creating Livelihoods
10 GNRC Limited GNRC Medireach – Free Medicare is now at your reach
11 SAS Poorna Arogya Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (SAS-PAP) Affordable & Ethical Healthcare for Urban and Rural Poor
12 Shija Hospitals and Research Institute Private Limited Shija Healthcare Project for Masses
13 SughaVazhvu Healthcare Replicating the SughaVazhvu Healthcare model in Assam: Envisioning “Disease-free Villages”
14 Jnana Prabodini Improving livelihoods and energy-access to 1,000,000 people through micro-solar-panel manufacturing
15 Decentralised Energy Systems India Pvt Ltd Renewable Energy Driven Rural Development and Employment Generation
16 FIA Technology Services Private Ltd. Financial inclusion – Tapping the Unbanked millions in North-East India
17 South Asian Forum for Environment NEWS-UP: Nonconventional Energy in Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor
18 Asomi Finance Pvt Ltd Core Banking Solution to the rural households in Assam
19 North East Diocesan Social Service Society(NEDSSS) Community Health in Assam and Rural Meghalaya, -CHARM Northeast India
20 Swabalambi Swadhin
21 GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute Building EM capacity in hospitals through emergency room technicians
22 Agastya Making Learning Fun! Useful! Accessible!

* The list is not in order of any preference.

Case Studies

Rangsutra

Envisaged as a bridge between artisans and consumers, Rangsutra works with small producer groups based in remote villages and towns in around 9 locations across the Indian states of Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Assam. It strengthens economic security in vulnerable communities by empowering members to create top quality hand made products which are then sourced and marketed to urban consumers through leading retailers.

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    In the last 3 years we have trained and placed 10,000 people [in jobs]. In this World Bank sponsored project we are trying to train and place 10,000 people in Bihar alone.
    Nishant Saxena, CEO Elements Akademia Pvt. Ltd.
    Basically a start-up needs to use the grant for the costs of capacity building of community, mobilization etc. Then there is the technical, research and development cost for doing the innovation part. The third necessity is providing the market linkage to the producer groups. These are the 3 core things that social entrepreneurs [look for] and for these, funds are not available. This will be the greatest benefit of the DM.
    Ravi Chandra, Managing Trustee, Bihar Development Trust
    We are looking at this money more as in investment in infrastructure development as well as human resource development. We believe that the results of this will be seen very soon.
    Sumita Ghose, Managing Director, Rangsutra Crafts India Ltd.
    As far as scale is concerned, we have understood that a lot of capacity building is required for that. Resourcing and networking [with] other agencies is also important.
    Prabitra Mishra, Programme Director, Adhikar
    We feel honoured, we are a young enterprise and being recognized by an institution like World Bank is a great feeling. We are pretty enthused to move ahead in a comparatively faster manner...we are looking forward to the coming 24 months when we are going to get various kind of inputs.
    Devendra Shukla, Chief Operating Officer, Educate Girls
    Through DM we have proposed to scale it up to different areas covering another 44,000 households where we can monitor the social security scheme. I am definitely thrilled and excited because this money will [make] us think in a different way, to upgrade our technology, our HR and streamlining our processes from a certain level to a different level. We need to build our capacity through DM.
    Mansingh Durga Prasad Nayak, Programme Director, (WOSCA)
    DM is the beginning...it definitely feels good. It has taken a lot of thought process as to how we take reliable lighting sources to Bihar...Winning DM matters a lot...the financial support will help us to build infrastructure, develop capacity of people to implement the program [of providing quality lighting to the poor] properly in Bihar.
    Prasanta Biswal, Sr. Manager – Mission Projects, Selco Solar Lights (P) Ltd.

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