SINC 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
An 82-year-old rickshaw-puller from Karimganj district, Assam who set up nine schools in Madhurband village of Patharkandi with his personal earnings and featured in the 42nd ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
He could not study because his family was extremely poor and he had to take up pulling rickshaws to run his family. He regretted being uneducated and resolved that he would never allow this “tragedy” to befall any child in his village.
The very first school he established was in 1978. He was able to do this by selling off his land and collecting small amounts of money from the villagers.
Over the course of the last four decades, this octogenarian has established 9 schools – three lower primary schools, five middle schools and a high school in Madhurbond and its adjoining areas. At a time when everyone jumps into philanthropy only to have their name everywhere, Ahmed has just one of the nine schools named after him. That also, because of the insistence of the villagers who urged him to do so.
I began my work by the wish of Allah and achieved some success by means of blessings from locals, said Ali, a school dropout himself
CM Sarbananda Sonowal felicitated Ahmed Ali, a rickshaw puller from Patherkandi in Karimganj, Assam
SINC 2018 Social Hero Awards
He is a mathematics teacher in the Sanskrit Education Department and a self-taught computer programmer. He has developed over 75 educational mobile applications and more than a hundred websites. His apps have more than 9 million (9,179,584 Actual Figure) total installs.
He gained prominence after being mentioned by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in a speech at Wembley Stadium, London, in November 2015. Modi said, “My India is in Imran Khan of Alwar.”
In 2015 Khan donated his 50 mobile applications to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as a patriotic contribution to Digital India in a National ICT Conference in Vigyan Bhawan Delhi on Nov 07, 2015.
Know more about Imran Khan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan_%28web_developer%29?wprov=sfla1
83 year young writer and artist Aabid Surti is the founder of Drop Dead Foundation, an NGO (Non Government Organization) that repairs minor plumbing problems such as leaks in the households of Mumbai, India for free.
Born 5 May 1935 in Gujarat, Aabid Surti founded Drop Dead Foundation, a water conservation initiative in Mumbai in 2007. Every Sunday, along with a plumber and an assistant, he visits houses in and around Mira Road and fixes dripping taps. He simply replaces old O-ring rubber gaskets with new ones. The idea struck him in 2007 when he noticed the dripping tap in his friend’s house. A tap that drips water once every second wastes about 1,000 litre of water every month so imagine how much we all waste, he points out.
Surti and his assistants raise awareness through posters and pamphlets. He pays for all expenses from his pocket
Know more about Aabid Surti
80-year-old Aabid Surti has helped save 10 million litres of water
https://yourstory.com/2016/03/aabid-surti/
SINC 2018 - YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARDS
