Social entrepreneurs from across the country submitted over 160 innovative ideas for the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2013-14. The winners of this challenge, hosted by the Tata group and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, were announced recently at the IIM Calcutta.
The challenge aims at discovering, encouraging and mentoring the next generation of social entrepreneurs, and the top three winners were MicroXlabs, Bodhi Health Care and Green Agrevolution Pvt ltd, winning prize money of Rs 1.75 lakh, Rs 1.25 lakh and Rs 1 lakh, respectively.
The ceremony featured specialsession by Dr Harish Hande, co-founder and MD, SElCO India and Shankar Venkateswaran, chief, Tata Sustainability Group. This year’s edition attracted over 160 entries from across India and Bulgaria, showing wide interest in the area of social entrepreneurship.