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Institute Seminar Hall
MNNIT Allahabad
Teliarganj
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 211004
India

Bani Yadav

Woman Car Rallyist

Bani Yadav is the fastest woman rally driver in India and the only woman in India to win all the major rallies that took place in the country, a mother of two, who started racing as a profession only 4 years ago with the encouragement provided by her husband, after her kids had grown up. Within this short span of 4 years, she has won numerous accolades, like being the first woman to come an Overall second in the IRC - Rally De North - 2016, 1st Indian Woman to drive a Formula 4 car on the Yas Marina track in Abu Dhabi, Best Sportsperson Award for 2017 by Haryana State Government and many more.

Chandni Di Dev Pratap

Social Worker

Having witnessed the problems of slum dwellers first hand, especially children, they established and now runs an NGO Voice of Slum with the motive to assimilate these less fortunate children by providing them quality education and access to opportunities.

Chhaya Savita Pushpa Champa

Project Shakti

Four women from Project Shakti of Dantewada district, who countered the way of extremism by taking up micro-entrepreneurial ventures with the help of the district administration to build multiple SHGs registered under various schemes of the Government of India such as ICDS, NRLM. By linking 950 women SHGs and more than 10,000 women/ families to an objective income generating scheme, Project Shakti has effectively helped counter the LWE propaganda.

Gauranga Das

Director, GEV

Prabhu Gaurang Das, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, who joined ISKCON eventually and went on to build the Govardhan EcoVillage which has been awarded by United Nations for innovative measures of 'sustainable tourism' in the country.

Prem Kumar Singh

Mountaineer

Prem Kumar Singh is an ace mountaineer who had scaled a total of 15 summits around the world. In 2013 alone, Prem had climbed the highest mountains on 4 continents, including Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Elbrus (Europe), Aconcagua (South-America) and Puncak Jaya (Oceania). He has also won the NDTV Prime reality show "XC Adventure"

Smita Majumder

Founder, OYES - India and Youngpreneurs India

Smita Majumder is a US based entrepreneur, now in India working on spreading the spirit of entrepreneurship and global citizenship through two of her initiatives. She co-founded Youngpreneurs India, to make entrepreneurship education a part of the high school curriculum in India. She is the founder of Organization for Youth Engagement in Sustainability, India - O-YES India (oyesindia.org), an organization which aims to educate and engage Indian youth in the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also a member of the Global Action Committee for United Nations Teach SDGs to create global projects that promote the SDGs. Smita has a Bachelors in Biomedical Technology, a Masters in Cancer Biology from the University of Massachusetts and worked in cancer research, but switched gears from science to do an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Johns Hopkins University. Her goal now is to focus on Indian youth to create entrepreneurial, global citizens, through a 'think globally, act locally' outlook.

U K Mishra

President, National Sports Academy

Dr. U.K. Mishra is an Icon, Visionary and Philanthropist, who revolutionized the concept of blending Academics with Sports. Starting with a vision of "Olympic Medal and Fitness for All", he founded the country's best Gymnastics Training Centre in Khel Gaon, Allahabad that provides Free-of-Cost training to gymnasts across various marginalized strata of society. His gymnasts have won more than 2,000 medals at various international and national championships including the Commonwealth & Asian Games. He has also founded the first school of its kind, KhelGaon Public School, that provides latest, World-Class Education with compulsory Sports for overall development of every child in its all-inclusive sprawling Green Campus and blends modern Education with Indian values.