Namma Bengaluru Awards '09 Winners are:
PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
| Sl.No. | Nomination Number | Name | Description |
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| 1 |
1358 |
ASHIS K CHAND |
Ashis has imparted superior quality health care in remote and backward areas of the society. He has helped school drop-outs and helps develop school infrastructure, etc. Though not a practicing Neuro surgeon, he practices and heals people from rural areas. More than 1500 spinal injury patients have been treated by Ashis. More than 1000 critical brain-stroke patients and more than 10,000 neuro-surgical procedures in rural Karnataka have taken place under his guidance.
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| 2 |
1338 |
SUDARSHAN BALLAL DR |
Mr. Ballal is the Director, Prof. medicine, Chairman -Medical advisory board, Manipal Health Systems. The hospital provides world class treatment at an affordable fee. He provides selfless service and heals poor patients, free of cost and many from an economically weak background have been treated by Mr. Ballal.
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| 3 |
2013 |
ADELE KORAH |
Sr. Adele Korah provides counseling to prisoners, admits the prisoner’s children in a residential school. She emotionally supports and uplifts the spirit on the inmates and is compassionate. Thus helps to rehabilitate the released prisoners.
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| 4 |
2815 |
VATSALA PRABHU |
Ms. Vatsala is a woman entrepreneur. She has founded Vanita Seva Mandir school and is also the Founder of ASHADEEP, which provides education to children who are mentally challenged and works for their betterment. She started Vanita Seva Mandir school, which provides education to thousands of children.
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| 5 |
5073 |
MAHADEVA |
He is responsible for taking care of bodies which are uncared for and cremates them. So far, he has created more than 42,000 bodies. He ensures to spend on cremating them the right way, with all the rituals before the cremation.
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PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS
| Sl.No. | Nomination No | Name | Description |
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| 6 |
3574 |
SANKARA EYE HOSPITAL, BANGALORE |
This is a super- speciality eye hospital. They have a programme called NANNA KANNU, an initiative for providing preventive and curative eye care for children from the economically weaker section. They are also associated with the SARVA SHIKSHA ABHYAAN and NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION to create awareness. This hospital works towards a status Ratio where 80% of the surgeries are not paid for. More than 60,000 rural and urban under privileged people have been helped through his Noble Project.
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| 7 |
3580 |
Rain Water Club |
Mr Vishwanath (heads the club) is very committed worker, has organized many camps, educates students about rain water harvesting, recharging the well, bore well – re use of water etc. One of the best brains in Bengaluru connected to water engineering.
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| 8 |
3483 |
SIKSHANA BANGALORE |
Sikshana is the largest intervention for nurturing Government Schools in the State with about 250 schools and 35,000 students. They adopt, empower and improve government schools. They adopt modern training methods to train the teachers and to improve the government schools. The main aim of the organization is to assist in low cost environmental upgrades, deploy available resources on motivational efforts, concentrating on core essentials and avoiding frills, and improve efficiency and effectiveness by applying management concepts in government schools. They provide technology inputs like PCs and multimedia content to government schools. Sikshana runs the largest non-Govt scholarship program in the State, with a coverage that is expected to reach out to 1000 students by June 10.
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| 9 |
5213 |
BELAKU TRUST |
They have a free old age home for women and an orphanage home (schooling is taken care of). They initially started out as a research programme in the area of Women and Children's health and Nutrition. Over a period of time, they decided that other factors like income generation, medical problems, etc needed to be focused on. The objectives are to promote village level health and development, and to promote research on healthcare practices, to disseminate the findings from the research to appropriate policy and decision making authorities, to collaborate with existing service providers and organization, rather than duplicate services.
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| 10 |
5043 |
SPARSH VACHANA |
Is a voluntary organization providing sophisticated, cutting edge treatment to the needy children from humble backgrounds requiring orthopedic intervention to lead normal lives. It is carried out free of cost. It was started in 2006. More than 200 major surgeries have been conducted.
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PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL
| Sl.No. | Nomination No | Name | Description |
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| 11 |
5395 |
SOMASHEKHAR |
Somashekhar is the Head Constable at Nandini Layout police station. He has actively participated in capturing the culprits of the triple murder case which occurred recently in Bengaluru, though the case wasn't under his jurisdiction, showing extreme responsiveness and dedication and in ensuring Justice prevails.
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| 12 |
2559 |
KRISHNA PRAKASH T.S |
He is a fingerprint expert in the Commissioner's office. With his assistance and focus, The Bangalore police has been able to solve more than 265 cases. He has the distinction of having solved the highest number of cases in the year 2008. Krishna has been awarded the CM’s medal for his performance and dedication to work.
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PUBLIC AGENCY
| Sl.No. | Nomination No | Name | Description |
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| 13 |
3579 |
BBMP - Zero Garbage |
They have introduced the Zero Garbage pilot project in Gandhinagar. The concept of having a Zero Garbage Zone demands immense responsibility from the BBMP, and BBMP has been successful in doing so, thus leading to replication of the idea in many other areas of Bengaluru. The initiative was started in early 2009, thus spreading the message of "Clean City" as Bengaluru is known to be the Green City. Zero Garbage Zone also promotes cleaner and healthier environment with no fear of Diseases speard through Garbage and clutter.
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| 14 |
1154 |
GOVT.HIGH SCHOOL- KADABAGERE |
For the past 23 years, this government high school has remarkably excelled in terms of Social awareness, stressing on the importance of socio- cultural activities and in bringing awareness among children. The school has also been successful in imparting quality education, and not compromising on the core focus of an educational institution. Thus a complete quality education provided to all students, helping in a focused and balanced students' life.
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