The third edition of the Sanmarg Business Awards in association with The Telegraph honoured passionate and committed business leaders of Bengal.
Organised by the leading Hindi daily in the city and held on January 12 at ITC Royal Bengal, the award celebrates excellence and achievements across sectors and industries and aims at motivating the resilient spirit, innovative strategies, concern for community initiatives and overall financial goals achieved by business houses. The awards were given under different categories and they included Excellence in Education, Excellence in R&D and Innovation, Excellence in Real Estate, and Excellence in Manufacturing and Heavy Industry among others. The highlight of the evening was the Naveen Soch Ki Khoj award, which gave new entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their business ideas in front of a jury comprising industry experts.
Vishnu Kumar Bhandari, director of Supertron Electronics Ltd, felicitated Sushil Jhunjhunwala, chairman of La Opala RG Ltd, with Sanmarg Business Lifetime Achievement Award
Utsav Parekh (extreme left), director SMIFS Capital Market Ltd, handed over the Sanmarg Naveen Soch Ki Khoj award to winners Sheikh Ziaur Rahaman (second from left) and Vivek Sharma (third from left). Risabh C. Kothari, owner of CKC Fragrance, handed over the Sanmarg Naveen Soch Ki Khoj award to winner Ranjan Kumar Gupta. Nandini Mangsingka (extreme right), co-founder and CEO of Mumbai Angels Network joined in.
(Left to right) Vishal Jhajharia, owner of Multwyn Group; Sunil Agarwal, franchise owner of Aakash BYJU and Lalit Beriwal (extreme right), director of Shyam Steel Industries handed over Sanmarg Business, Power Brand of the Year Award to MD and CEO Subir Chakraborty of Exide Industries Ltd. Subir said, “It’s an honour to receive the Power Brand of the Year award from Sanmarg. I’m feeling great. My message for today’s youth is that they should always trust the fact that circumstances and environment are changing and they should change too in order for the betterment of the society and environment.”
Tulsi Dugar (extreme left), director of BMD Group, handed over the Business Leader of the Year award to Vedant Modi (second from left) who received the award on behalf of Ravi Modi. Amit Kumar Saraogi, director of Anmol Feeds, and Lavesh Poddar (extreme right) joined in.
Ruchika Gupta, chief happiness officer and executive director of Sanmarg, with husband Vivek Gupta, chairman of Sanmarg. They said, “The third edition of Sanmarg Business Award has been extra special because we thought of connecting every businessman to his karma, as we got inspired from the Gita. It has been an eternal journey. We feel proud of the work we are doing. We wanted to make every businessman feel extraordinary as a karmayogi and feel proud of themselves and their work. That was the essence of the entire evening.”
Adrian Pratt, acting US consul general and (right) Vijay Malhotra, Area Executive Chef East, ITC Hotels
Sourav Jaiswal (second from right), co-founder and MD of Diverse Genomics Pvt Ltd, took home Excellence in R&D and Innovation award from (l-r) Navin Bhartia, chairman of Soham Group; Mamta Binani, national past president 2016 of Institute of Company Secretaries of India; Deepak Agarwal, CMD of Elegant Group; Rajiv Kaul, chairman of Nicco Engineering Service Ltd and Prabhat Agarwal, partner of Moore & Singhi Co. Sourav Jaiswal said, “I would like to thank Sanmarg and the respected jury members. What I believe is that one should focus on patience and practice. It feels great to be the winner of such an award. Looking forward to helping people in the domain were healthcare comes first.”
J.P. Chowdhury, chairman of Titagarh Wagons Pvt Ltd.