Speakers
Gunavathi Chandrasekaran
Everything happened fifteen months back when this 38-year-old Chinnalapatti housewife visited one of her neighbors for the standard night tattle. "There was a lady showing paper quilling and I sat for thirty minutes and figured out how to make basic shapes," reviews Gunavathy Chandrasekaran. She had little thought then that paper quilling would transform her. Today, Gunavathi is an effective business person with a yearly turnover of over Rs.6,00,000 and a customer base spread over the territory of Tamil Nadu.
Gunavathy never wanted to procure for herself. Nonetheless, she was exhausted with the dreariness throughout everyday life and would frequently slip into misery. "I used to flounder in self-centeredness," she says, uncovering that a polio assault disabled her as a two-year-old."But I didn't let it stall me. I have consistently preferred to get considered typical."
Gunavathy has won ladies of greatness grants from different clubs and associations and the Poompuhar grant by Tamil Nadu Government.
J NIVAS
J Nivas is an IAS officer belonging to 2010 batch of Andhra Pradesh cadre. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from VIT. Initially, he was working as a project Engineer in Vatach Wabag Ltd. But soon after working there for three years, he quit his job for pursuing his dream of becoming an IAS officer.
After becoming an IAS, he launched many projects to help out the tribal people as the women out there were facing difficulty in travelling to city for getting proper medical treatment during pregnancy and hence, came out with the project called " Project Avval" which gives 24*7 call centre and ambulance service for pregnant women and just after this he launched project "Bright Star" which provides an opportunity to the tribal children to get coached for IIT EAMCET and later this project was awarded as a good initiative in administration by Honourable Cheif Minister of Telangana.
In the begining phase of his journey he came up with many reforms like GIS based land inventory system which can help the investors to look at the land parcels available in the state, then made an initiative for relief and rehabilitation of bonded labourers, and then with the support from the MPs of Vishakhapatnam granted more than 75000 free LPG connections to poor households. This scheme paved the way for the kerosene free AP and village of VIZAG was declared as the first smoke free village.
Dr. P Ramesh Narayanan
Dr. P Ramesh Narayanan is one of the greatest scientist of ISRO, who is excellent and expert in Materials characterization. He pursued his B.tech in Metallurgical Engg from PSG college of Technology, M. Tech. in Process Metallurgy from IIT Bombay and then PhD in Materials Engg from IISc Bangalore. Currently he is the general manager in Materials Management activities, in Materials and Mechanical entity, VSSC,ISRO Trivandrum.
He has published 100 papers in international Peer reviewed journals and has been invited in 25 talks conference. 8 times his paper got the best paper award and 5 times the best metallography award.
Other than this he has also secured the ISRO Team excellence award for aluminium alloy indigenization program in 2008, ISRO team excellence award for Alpha Ti alloy gas bottle development in 2015, Braham Prakash best PhD thesis award for IIM Trivandrum chapter:2012,
and is the co-author of four chapters published in the Encyclopedia of Aluminium and its alloys.
Rajapalayam Uma Shankar
He is young and raring to go. He could have tried his luck and led a comfortable life pursuing a lucrative profession. But he has chosen to teach music instead. His name is Umashankar, a science graduate from the dry land of Rajapalayam. Umashankar thinks school students should not be taught only the Tamizh Thai Vazhthu and the national anthem. He says "there are a lot of amazing songs, penned by great poets, whose powerful lyrics could help them understand and imbibe value necessary to lead a good life." Umashankar fulfills his desire by taking private classes for those who are keen to learn the art form. " But I will keep trying to make these youngsters understand and appreciate the beauty of this music." he says.
Mr M G Rajamanickam
Mr. M G Rajamanickam is the district collector of Ernakulam. Some know that he has been awarded the best collector of Kerala award. Some know he is also married to R Nishanthini, who is an IPS officer. If you are a Kochiite you have probably seen him as the chief guest for all important events in the city. And his face is a familiar one in TV channels. His name is mentioned in the news in one way or the other. He is probably the most famous amongst the district collectors of Ernakulum district. But those who know him personally know him for many other reasons. They call him as a humanitarian. He is someone who cares for his people. He cares for his surroundings. He doesn't care what the media has to say about him, and no one has ever been able to take that smile off his face. The man is always pleasant. There are so many things he does, which he doesn't need to do as a collector. But he still does it, because he believes as an Indian, and as a human being there are greater responsibilities.