List of Awardees

Sl. No. Nominee State Area of Work

AngadipuramGrama Panchayat has done a lot of work towards the women Angadipuram Gramma empowerment. Through activities of Kudumbasree panchayat helped women to 1 Panchayat, Mallapuram hold leadership roles and promoted women in decision making. (Panchyat) has demonstrated improvement with work in progress on improving 2 State of Haryana (State) Haryana Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) during the last year. It is working to free women and children from sexual exploitation, forced GuriaSwayamSeviSansthan 3 Uttar Pradesh prostitution and trafficking and restoration of the rights of their children at (CSO) Varanasi & Mau (U.P.). Jagori is working from last 25 years with a vision of “spreading feminist 4 Jagori (CSO) consciousness for the creation of a just society”. It has started “Safe Delhi” campaign to fight the problem of sexual harassment. KWUCB is the first Women’s Bank in the and has a working capital of Kanaklata Women Urban over Rs 7 crores and reaching out to over 28,000 customers through various 5 Assam Cooperative bank (Institution) branches. The Bank’s lending facility is exclusively for women though men are allowed to deposit as per the instructions of RBI. TIFAC has been instrument in generating employment for women through Technology Information, Knowledge Involvement in Research Advancement through Nurturing – 6 Forecasting and Assessment Delhi KIRAN-IPR scheme. 405 women have been trained and operating from 4 Council (Institution) Centres across the country at Delhi, , Chennai and Kharagpur.

Breakthrough Trust is working to make violence and discrimination against women and girls unacceptable. It has engaged in many cutting-edge multimedia 7 Breakthrough Trust (CSO) Delhi campaigns, community mobilization and trained many women worldwide in leadership to challenge the status quo and take bold action for the dignity, equality, and justice of all. 1

List of Nari Shakti Puraskar Awardees

Sister Lucky Kurienhas been working for Women and Children from the past 8 Sr. Lucky Kurien (Individual) 18 years. She founded the Maher NGO and helped 2691 women to get sheltered, rehabilitee 2339 and provides help to 59 women in marriage Dr (Smt.) is the Secretary of NGO SevaSansthan working for the welfare and empowerment of women in Bihar, with a focus Dr. (Smt) Saurabh Suman 9 Bihar on the District of Nawada. She has organized ISRO sponsored research (Individual) programme for participation of women in agriculture development, and training on basic information technology and mobile training course. Smt. is an environmentalist; educated women woodcutters in on the dangers of deforestation, and prevented the Kosi from 10 Basanti Devi (Individual) Uttarakhand drying up. She convinced the women in the valley to fight opposition from men and forest guards and form community based organizations for forest conservation. SuparnaBaksiGanguly is committed environmentalist and Animal Activist. She is founder member of an animal welfare agency Compassion Unlimited SuparnaBaksiGanguly 11 Plus Action (CUPA). Her organisation has supported various animal welfare (Individual) initiatives and running four centres in Bangalore for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation for monkeys, snakes and birds.

Meena Sharma is coming from the rural background a renowned journalist took up fighting gender discrimination as her mission in life. She has 12 (Individual) highlighted the state of old parents neglected by their own children and illegal sex determination and sex selective abortions through various sting operations.

PritiPatkar is social worker and human rights activist and co-founder of the organization Prerana. She has done pioneering work in the red-light districts 13 PreetiPatkar (Individual) Maharashtra of Mumbai to protect children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking for the past 28 years.

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List of Nari Shakti Puraskar Awardees

Uttara Padwar runs a grassroots organisation named PrayasShikshaSamiti 14 Uttara Padwar (Individual) Madhya Pradesh working for fighting extreme poverty, malnutrition and diseasesin tribal communities like Baigas, Gonds, Abhujhmarias. Smt. Vijaya Nirmala is working on Women and Child Right issues and conducted number of trainings, workshops, campaigns and awareness meetings on Gender Sensitization and Human Trafficking in West and East PolumatiVijaya Nirmala 15 Godavari Districts. She has participated in 27rescue operation and provides (Individual) counseling services. She has formed 27 community vigilance group, 35 Adolescents groups, 15 red light area level victim collectives for prevention OF Human Trafficking and abuse. Vasu Primlani is a triathlete, rock climber and is also well-known for her international stand-up comedy with shows done all over the world. Her 16 Vasu Primalni Delhi comedy picks up on issues of contemporary relevance including environment, women’s safety, rape, and diversity issues. Ms. , founder of 17000ft foundation is working to create an impact and improve the quality of school education in the remote villages of . She started with distributing story books to the children in their 17 Sujata Sahu (Individual) Haryana native language in Ladakh and her organization made 600 visits in one year to schools in far flung areas of Ladakh to inculcate in children the habit of learning better through reading books.

JyotiMhapsekar is founding members of StreeMuktiSanghatana. She is a renowned playwright and has written numerous plays on women’s issues, 18 JyotiMhapsekar (Individual) Maharashtra children’s education, child labour, waste management and the environment. She has participated in several International Women Playwrights conferences and was Convener of VIII conference in 2009.

Ms. SumitaGhose is the founder and managing director of Rangsutra, a social enterprise which seeks to bring about socio economic development and 19 Sumita Ghosh (Individual) Delhi inclusive growth in rural by engaging both: the community and the market.

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List of Nari Shakti Puraskar Awardees

Ms. Anjali Sharma is practicing law as a senior associate in a based Law Firm called "Integral Law Offices", which does extensive work in the commercial, corporate, contract and arbitration law fields. Anjali is also 20 Anjali Sharma (Individual) Delhi an animal rights activist, and is an Executive Committee Member of and Legal Advisor to the Animal Welfare Board of India, which a statutory body is functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Smt. is an Illiterate woman and working in the field of rural 21 Krishna Yadav (Individual) Delhi development and entrepreneurship. She is at present a successful food processing entrepreneur with annual turnover of more than Rs.3 crores. Mrs. ShakuntalaMajumdar is the founding member of Thane SPCA, is among the most influential people in the Country's Animal Welfare environment with 22 ShakuntalaMajumdar Maharashtra 20+ years of rich experience in this space. She is an Honorary Animal Welfare officer appointed by the and by the Committee to Monitor Animal Welfare laws in India by the Bombay High Court

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