Press Clips

Social Entrepreneurship and the challenge of Climate Change
- November 17, 2008 - Financial Express

Uday Khemka, Vice Chairman Sun Group; Managing Trustee, The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Nabha Foundation - "Our subcontinent has given birth to many great social entrepreneurs. The names of towering figures such as Mohammed Yunnus and Dr Kurien stand out in illustration."

Young leaders can ring in global change
- November 10, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Ashok Regmi, Director, International Youth Foundation - "Most societies of the world today devote vast amounts of attention to the virtues of being young. Our preoccupation with youthfulness extends into nearly all aspects of contemporary life—from health to fashion, entertainment to sports. "

Progress by educating the rural and urban poor
- November 09, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Anu Aga, Board of Directors, Thermax - "The Indian success story is seriously hampered by our huge stagnation in the social sector areas. Though we have made progress, compared to where we should have been after these 60 years and compared to what other countries have done, we are lagging far behind."

Healthcare for all needs collective action
- November 08, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya - "India will emerge as the first country in the world to dissociate healthcare from affluence."

Battling Development Challenges
- November 07, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Dr. Swati Piramal, Director, Piramal Group - "Access to quality healthcare is a basic human need, a fundamental right and a public mandate, without which equitable development is impossible."

Treadle pumps and duck farming show the way
- November 06, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Maxine Olson, UN Resident Coordinator, UN Development Programme Resident Representative in India - "The Food and Agriculture Organization says the number of hungry people increased by 50 million last year. The combination of rising oil and food prices threaten to push an additional 100 million people into poverty."

What Social Entrepreneurs can teach government and businesses
- November 05, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Bunker Roy, Educationist, the Barefoot School - "Since 2002 Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum in Davos has been very daring. He has been introducing a fundamentally new type of change agent to mingle and mix and indeed change the mindset of the movers and shakers of the world."

Social entrepreneurs must help the poor
- November 04, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Klaus Schwab, Co-founder, Board Member, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Founder and Chairman, World Economic Forum - "In today’s precarious global climate, both governments and businesses face tremendous challenges with higher commodity prices, food crises, and environmental pressures. In such an environment, the social entrepreneur is more relevant than ever."

Platform for social entrepreneurs to share ideas, win awards
- May 13, 2008 - livemint.com

Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with UNDP call for nominations for their yearly award

Q&A: Independent regulatory body needed for NGOs
- April 25, 2008 - The Times of India

CEO of The Resource Alliance Simon Collings spoke to Saira Kurup:

India must also cut emissions: Blair
- March 21, 2008 - The Indian Express

“India must join industrialised countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to avert a global-warming disaster,” former British prime minister Tony Blair said here on Thursday.

Climate change: Blair for India in leading role
- March 21, 2008 - Hindustan Times

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday advocated a strong leadership role for India in solving the climate change crisis, through a global deal acceptable to the developed and developing countries.

India can lead battle against climate change: Blair
- March 21, 2008 - The Hindu

The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday said India had an important role to play in mitigating the impact of climate change.

Goonj wins Indian NGO of the year award
- March 10, 2008 - Yahoo India News

For its constant endeavour to alleviate the agony of the poor and the marginalized, especially in terms of providing material resource, Goonj, a Delhi-based non-profit organisation, has been awarded the Indian NGO of the year award.

P. Chidambaram and N.R. Narayanamurthy honor NGOs at the India NGO Awards 2007
- March 06, 2008 - India Infoline

he Union Finance Minister of India, Mr. P Chidambaram, felicitated Goonj as the ‘NGO of the Year 2007’ at the Annual India NGO Awards ceremony organized by The Resource Alliance and The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation in the capital.

Investing in the sun
- January 01, 2008 - Civil Society

Fontana, the Taj Palace hotel’s coffee shop, has an array of frosted lamp shades on its celing lit by filament bulbs. Harish Hande looks at the ceiling with irritation. He’s just been declared ‘social entrepreneur of the year’ by the Schwab Foundation for spreading solar energy to villages in India

Solar crusader—Harish Hande
- December 28, 2007 - Business Today

I have some bad news and some good news for you. The bad news is you are totally dead and the good news is you are still young—This is what Denis Hayes, leading environmental activist and founder of the Earth Day, told Harish Hande about the short-term future of his business early 2007.

A businessman’s crusade against darkness
- December 04, 2007 - Business Standard

Harish Hande, who has been honoured recently with a prize for social entrepreneurship, has made it his business to take solar power to every un-lit home.

An Entrepreneur Speaks
- December 04, 2007 - Developednation.org

You are not likely to find many IITians, armed with a PhD degree from US, commenting, “IIT Kharagpur motto says—In Service of the nation. But which nation it is—USA or some IT and Finance companies.”

An entrepreneur’s crusade in lighting up India’s villages
- December 03, 2007 - Livemint.com

Harish Hande’s project on rural electrification has won him the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award; in an exclusive interview with Livemint

They’ve taken the road less travelled
- December 03, 2007 - Business Standard

INDIA ECONOMIC SUMMIT 2007—The four finalists from among whom the Social Entrepreneur of The Year 2007 will be chosen on the last day of the India Economic Summit are Harish Hande of SELCO, Karnataka; Rajendra Joshi of Saath, Gujarat; Pravin Mahajan of Janarth, Maharashtra; and Chetna Gala Sinha of Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, Ltd., Maharashtra.

Selco MD gets entrepreneur award
- December 03, 2007 - Asian Age

“We have to create and provide sustainable sources of eco-friendly energy to the marginalised communities and at the same time, limit the harmful implications on the global warming,”

Goodwill corp.s
- November 30, 2007 - The Hindu Business Line

Aravind Eye Hospital, founded by Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy and Thulasiraj D. Ravilla in 1976, has treated over 2.3 million outpatients and performed over 2.7 lakh surgeries in 2006-07, almost two-thirds of them for free.

Who will be the Social Entrepreneur of the Year?
- November 23, 2007 - Hindustan Times

 

Social entrepreneurs innovate to change
- November 20, 2007 - Mint

A social entrepreneur, within the Indian context, combines the entrepreneurial know-how of Narayana Murthy with the social heart of Mother Teresa

Moving down the pyramid
- November 11, 2007 - India Today

Boys and girls in Saurath, a sleepy hamlet in Bihar, no longer flock to the big cities in search of jobs, thanks to a rural BPO set up by Drishtee, a company engaged in developing networks for delivering services to the village community.

Social entrepreneurs find answers for people’s problems
- October 27, 2007 - Deccan Herald

 

Gandhiji was a social entrepreneur
- October 03, 2007 - Rediff News

Social entrepreneurship is a marriage between effective business techniques and social good. It is something that Mahatma Gandhi pioneered, Uday Khemka tells Business Standard.

Interview Uday Khemka
- September 13, 2007 - Alliance; Vol 12, No 3, Sep 2007

Uday Khemka comes from an Indian family that has been in business for about 100 years. The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation’s mission has historically been nothing to do with climate change but has rather focused on poverty and development issues, microfinance and so on.