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sector will continue to grow and it can only be compensated through
mechanization. Mallika’s success mantra is that company products
should be cost-effective and should be relevant to end users.
» NISABA GODREJ
Executive Director, Godrej Consumer Products
Nisaba, the younger daughter of
Adi Godrej is also President,
Human Capital and Innovation
and has emerged a likely
successor to her father. She led the
creation of a strategy cell for the group
and the development of the FMCG
strategy for the Group. Nisaba drives
the Group’s ‘Good and Green’ (CSR)
initiatives and is the point person for
the operations of the Godrej Family
Council. She is on the Board of Directors
of Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej Agrovet and Teach For
India. She has a BSc degree from The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
» JYOTI NAYAK
President, Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
She is often referred to as
the leading example of
women empowerment and
entrepreneurship in India.
Jyoti Naik, has been instrumental in
promoting Lijjat Papad cooperative
movement that took off with a loan
of Rs 80 and handful members to
a multi-crore business employing
almost 30,000 women. Jyoti has often
been recognized for her pioneering
spirit and was conferred the
Businesswoman of the Year Award for Corporate Excellence by
the Economic Times. Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad was
also awarded the best village Industry institution in 2003 and
Brand Power award in 2011.
» INDU JAIN
Chairperson, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.,
Indu Jain,76, is chairperson of
India’s largest and most powerful
media house – The Times Group.
A strong votary of women’s rights
and women entrepreneurship,
Indu contributed immensely to the
growth of Times group. Indu Jain is
also founder president of the ladies
wing of FICCI (FLO). He is also
the chairperson of the Bharatiya
Jnanpith Trust, which awards India’s
most prestigious and highest literary award, the Jnanpith
award. She addressed the United Nations in 2000 at the
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual
Leaders, a speech in which she stressed the need for oneness
among faiths and went on to chair a special session of the
conference.
lACTIVISTS
» SUNITA NARAIN
Environmentalist
She has been with the
Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE) since
1982 and currently is
director general of the Centre
and director of Society for
Environmental Communications
and publisher of the fortnightly
magazine, Down To Earth. She is
a member of the Prime Minister’s
Council for Climate Change as
well as the National Ganga River
Basin Authority, chaired by the Prime Minister, set up to
implement strategies for cleaning the river. In 2005, she
also chaired the Tiger Task Force at the direction of the
Prime Minister, to evolve an action plan for conservation
in the country after the loss of tigers in Sariska. She was
awarded Padma Shri by the government. Of India in 2005
while she has received the World Water Prize for work on
rainwater harvesting and for its policy influence in building
paradigms for community based water management.
» MEDHA PATKAR
Founder, Narmada Bachao Andolan
This firebrand Narmada
Bachao Andolan activist
who along with late Baba
Amte championed against
environmental destruction of
Narmala valley and building of
big dams over Narmada river and
displacement of large population,
is rightly called an activist for all
seasons and reasons. Be it mega
dams, projects involving large scale
displacement and rehabilitation of
people, tribal rights, environmental destruction or corruption
in government her voice is prominent. A faculty at of Tata
Institute of Social Sciences she had left her job to take up issues
tribals and their rehabilitation in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat
and Maharashtra through Narmada Bachao Andolan. As a
civil activist she is also contesting the Lok Sabha elections of
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket.
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