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Employment > Awards > N.C.P.E.D.P. - Shell Helen Keller Awards 2001
Dr. Amit Chatterjee: Different direction
At 57, Dr. Amit Chatterjee, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, has traversed varied paths, from technology to editing, writing his success story along the way.
Dr. Armaity S. Desai: Granting lifelines
Social work, and both, concern and action in the field of education, is what Mumbai-based 67-year-old Dr. Armaity S. Desai, Member, Review Committee, Civil Services Recruitement Procedure and Examinations, has done most of her life.
K. Ramkrishna: Rhythm of success
He is visually impaired, uses a speech synthesizer, yet 51-year-old K. Ramkrishna, General Manager, Industrial Development Bank of India (I.D.B.I.), Mumbai, has orchestrated his life harmoniously.
Madhu Singhal: Sincerity counts
The single-minded dedication of the visually impaired, 42-year-old Madhu Singhal, Honorary Managing Trustee, Mitra Jyoti, Bangalore, has ensured that persons with disabilities are given ample opportunities to lead independent lives.
For 44-year-old Paul Y. Samuel, Manager, Orthotic Unit, Association of People with disability (A.P.D.), Bangalore, improving the quality of his life meant helping a disabled person make the first move.
Prof Singanapalli Balaram: Abling design
Fifty-eight-year-old professor Singanapalli Balaram, Chairman, Knowledge management Centre, National Institute of Design (N.I.D.), Ahmedabad, works hard at sensitising designers, planners and architects to the needs of disabled persons.
Dr. Ishtiaq Haider: Focussed just right
Seventy-year-old Dr. Syed Istiaq Haider, Honorary General Secretary, National Association for the Blind, Uttar Pradesh, has mapped out a vocation for himself: to raise the the standard of education for visually impaired persons.
Cummins India Limited: Coming together
A group that works together, succeeds together. It is this belief that led the managment at Cummins India Limited, manufacturers of diesel engines and generator sets, to view its activities as a community.
MindTree Consulting Private Limited: Rooted in care
Busy with software development, Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting Private Limited has branched out in various countries; yet its people have never forgotten the needs of others.
Schizophrenia Research Foundation: All in the mind
Seventeen years ago, Chennai-based Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) decided to take up a challenge that very few institutions would – the care and rehabilitation of the mentally disabled – and changed a mindset.
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