Jury Members have made a final shortlist
And the Nominees for Namma Bengaluru Awards 2009 are...
PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
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| 1 | 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 | 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 | 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 | ZAFAR FUTEHALLY |
In 1987, along with a few enlightened citizens, Zafar started the Bangalore Environmental Trust with the objective to achieve and consolidate the rightful position of the public in general to the services to which they are entitled as citizens. He started the conservation movement, with no recognition. He was the Honorary Secretary of Bombay Natural History Society, a leading organization in Asia, for the conservation of the environment in India.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | MITHRANAND TIMMAPPA NAIK |
Mr. Naik is a retired DCP – Traffic, and is currently the chief traffic warden. He has successfully educated lakhs of school children and inculcated awareness and knowledge about road safety. Even after his retirement, Mr. Naik has continued to contribute to the society by working as the chief traffic warden.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | CHONIRA M. THIMMAIAH |
He has fought for the pension for freedom fighters and ex- servicemen, and for a medical scheme for ex- servicemen. He has also fought for the reservation of SC/ST students.
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PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | COMMUTE EASY- VIPUL KASERA |
Started by Vipal Kasera. Helps the citizens of Bengaluru (Car - Pooling). It is India's largest car pool network with over 13,000 active users. It uses a unique blend of advance search techniques and social networking to reduce travel stress to broaden the social network, to cut fuel costs and to reduce pollution. It is initiative launched by buzzworld technologies, headed by Vipul Kasera
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | Citizen Matters |
Web Portal with more than 33 thousand online visitors - One of the leading Web Portal (citizen oriented news publication) which writes about Bangalore and its development. Thus keeping people of the city informed.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | INTACH BANGALORE |
Creating awareness on Bangalore Heritage, Listing of Heritage sites, Conservation of heritage, Organizing the Heritage Walks for all (at very low cost or free many times). Dedicated NGO, do not get any grants from either State or Central Government.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | SHRSHTI SHAKTI UNIT |
Imparts vocational training to women for free. They provide financial support to women to start their own ventures.
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PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL
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| 1 | BHARAT LAL MEENA |
Mr. Bharath Lal Meena has preserved the city's culture and heritage through initiating vast paintings of our Karnataka culture and ancient Heritage across public walls in Bengaluru, thus banning of promotional Movie posters that created immense clutter. This in turn has ensured that the city is kept clean and uncluttered.
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| 2 | RAMESH S T |
ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, a Professional with Integrity, moral and ethical of functioning and being very responsive. Ramesh introduced AIDS awareness training as part of the recruitment training process. He is known for his reforms in prisons.
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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
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| 1 | BBMP PROJECT @ LAKES |
BBMP lakes division, in a span of just 18 months has restored Bangalore's lakes including sustainable eco- restoration, clearing encroachments and serving people on a one-to-one basis.
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | BANGALORE ONE |
B1 redefines public service through its focus on the common man. The vision of the B1 Project is "to provide citizens of Karnataka all G2C and G2B One-Stop services and information of departments and agencies of Central, State and Local Governments in an efficient, reliable, transparent and integrated manner, and easy access through a chain of computerized Integrated Citizen Service Centers (ICSC's) and through multiple delivery channels like Electronic Kiosks, mobile phones and the Internet.
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| 4 | BMTC |
BMTC came into existence in 1997, with the sole purpose of providing public transportation within the city and suburban areas in Bengaluru. The mission of the organization is to provide safe, reliable, clean and an affordable travel experience to Citizens. More than 4 million commuters ferry in BMTC buses every day. BMTC comprises of a fleet of over 5,593 buses covering an area with a radius of 36kms from the city's center.
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| 5 | 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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