Lavasa Women's Drive - 2013 Winners Type of Awards Car No Participant Names Trophy Mumbai to Rank Lavasa 10 64 Manisha Gaind & Malu Gupta Rank Trophy Taruni Shirish Kelkar & Padmini 9 89 Rank Trophy Vijayaraghava Deepa Damodaran & Anisha 8 13 Rank Trophy Lanewala Vishakha Deshmukh Kulkarni & 7 53 Rank Trophy Jasmine Kharkar Rufina A Karmali & Karuna 6 197 Rank Trophy Sharma Minita Jagdip Sodhi & Jyothi 5 176 Rank Trophy Iyengar 4 37 Uma Lal & Richa Sethi Rank Trophy 3 160 Anita Agarwal & Supriya Sapre Bronze Preeti Khankhoje & Preeti 2 261 Silver Gandhi Hemal Yogesh Sawant & Meera 1 57 Gold Parameswaran Warrier Rank Pune to Lavasa Veeraj S Shah & Ashwini 5 579 Rank Trophy Melawney 4 542 Rakhi Shetty & Kavita Khatod Rank Trophy 3 608 Nidhi Dixit & Anagha Sadavarte Bronze 2 603 Pooja Kabra & Preeti Aggarwal Silver Shreya Varghese & Pragya 1 612 Gold Patidar Adiraj Category Awards Mumbai to Best Message Car No 127 Kinjal D Shah & Kavita Turakhia Trophy Lavasa Mumbai to Dimple M Thacker & Urmi L Best Message Car No 250 Lavasa Popat Mumbai to Best Dressed Car No 52 Ankita Verma & Neha Kumar Trophy Lavasa Mumbai to Shraddha A Narkar & Vidya A Best Dressed Car No 114 Trophy Lavasa Shetty Mumbai to Pratibha Singh & Geeta Best Dressed Car No 179 Trophy Lavasa Duttagupta Most Popular Mumbai to Car No 1 Ajita Italiya & Meghna Chitalia Trophy Team Lavasa Kareena Shewani & Krisha Best Message Pune to Lavasa Car No 543 Trophy Chulani Best Dressed Pune to Lavasa Car no. 614 Navneet Kohli & Sapna Bhog Trophy Best Dressed Pune to Lavasa Car No 547 Vindi Pujari & Radhika Chavan Trophy Most Popular Pune to Lavasa Car No 501 Sangita Agarwal & Ruta Athyle Trophy Team Best Cancer Mumbai to Car No 224 Ruchika Suri & Ami A Damani Trophy Message Award Lavasa Best Cancer Sania Siddiqui & Rekha Navin Pune to Lavasa Car No 624 Trophy Message Award Mishra MSD Best Dressed Mumbai to Car No 118 Ekta V Kaushik & Fatema Shaikh Trophy Car Award Lavasa MSD Best Dressed Neha Singhania & Divya Pune to Lavasa Car No 640 Trophy Car Award Khinvasar Women with the Hina Shah Trophy Drive 1 Women with the Kanan Dhru Trophy Drive 2 Women with the Sabbah Haji Trophy Drive 3 Women with the Sakshi Kumar Trophy Drive 4 Women with the Anagha Amte Trophy Drive 5 Cancer Survivor Trophy Award Kanan Dhru Kanan Dhru is the Founder of Research Foundation for Governance in India, a think-tank working towards legal and political reforms. She feels passionately about making a difference in the legal and political systems of India. Through her dynamic young think-tank Research Foundation for Governance in India (RFGI), she has been contributing towards bringing more transparency, accountability and youth participation within the Indian governance processes. Apart from working at RFGI, she teaches ethics in business schools and is a lawyer, a writer, an avid mountaineer and a tennis-enthusiast having great interest in different cultures and identities. Hina Shah Hina Shah dares to be different. A home maker, a classical dancer, an entrepreneur, a painter, an academician and the director of ICECD, she is perfectly comfortable in each role. In a man’s world, she created a niche for herself with path breaking innovative ideas as successful entrepreneur in the field of plastic packaging. With a belief that economic empowerment is the tool for overall empowerment of women she transformed her vision into an initiative “International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (ICECD). By now, ICECD has reached out to +1,00,000 women directly and +1150 organizations in India, who have in turn trained +5,00,000 women. Hina institutionalized Women Economic Empowerment strategy in over 60 countries of Asia, Africa, Pacific and Caribbean, and lately, USA reaching out to develop over a million women to become entrepreneurs! Sabbah Haji Four years after she quit the comfort of her content-writing job in Bangalore, she's in the thick of an incredible transformation. 30-year-old Sabbah Haji moved back to her ancestral village Breswana, in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, in 2008, to set up and run a quality school with her family. The Haji Public School caters to children in a remote Pahari region. It has now grown to Class 5, with one class going up each year, and the aim is to take the school all the way up to Class 12. Haji lives in the village the year round and pulls in assistance and teaching resources/volunteers by extensively using social media. The entire Haji family funds and operates the school in different capacities. Sakshi Kumar Sakshi Kumar is a 23 yr old Journalism post graduate student who has dedicated herself to social activism through 2 issues that are closest to her heart - women rights and child education She is Founder of Justice for Women (online volunteer-based initiative) & co-founder of Gubbare (classroom education for underprivileged kids). Dr. Anagha Amte Born and brought up in Goa, Anagha chose a different path and married Late Baba Amte’s doctor grandson. She works as a medical officer at Maharogi Sewa Samiti’s Lok Biradari Prakalp Hospital since 2003. Providing composite health care to the remotely situated Madia –gond tribals. She is the only gynecologist in the 60 km radius, treating around 40,000 tribal patients from 1500 tribal villages from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Apart from being a gynecologist by education, Anagha also work as sonologist, neonatologist and a general physician. She also imparts community health care education to the tribal’s and is a nature lover and loves trekking Sindhutai Sapkal (Special Recognition Award) Sindhutai Sapkal was born on 14 November 1948 at Wardha in Maharashtra. She could attend school only until 4th grade, attended part-time due to other family responsibilities. She was brought up in abject poverty. Sindhutai has devoted her entire life for orphans. She has nurtured over 1050 orphaned children. As of today, she has a grand family of 207 son-in-laws, 36 daughter-in- laws and over 1000 grandchildren. Still she continues to fight for the next meal. Many of the children whom she adopted are well-educated lawyers and doctors, and some, including her biological daughter, are running their own independent orphanages. One of her children is doing a Ph.D. on her life. She has been honored with over 272 awards for her dedication and work including 2010 - Ahilyabai Holkar Award, given by the Maharashtra State Government to social workers in the field of woman and child welfare. She used all that money to buy land to make a home for her orphan children. ***** .