Zee Business Dare to Dream Awards: Visionary MSME leaders who went from humble origins to become top achievers honoured

Zee Business Dare to Dream Awards: As many as 43 successful entrepreneurs were honoured for their efforts during the Zee Business Dare to Dream Awards in New Delhi on Monday.  Years before start-up became a buzzword among the country’s youths, many visionaries stepped out to start new businesses, to realise their dreams. Today, they have become inspiring entrepreneurs who went from humble origins to become top achievers. Simply, because they dared to dream. 

Celebrating the success of home-grown entrepreneurs, India’s top Hindi business channel, Zee Business, in collaboration with SAP India Pvt Ltd, felicitated them at the ‘Dare to Dream Awards’ on Monday.  Giving away the awards to the winners at the event in Delhi, MSME Secretary Arun Kumar Panda said the youths today should aspire to be job givers rather than job seekers and highlighted the fact that the Centre has taken numerous initiatives to ensure that success is achieved.

MoS Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said, “Every government will support hard working and honest entrepreneurs. PM Modi always wants to help such entrepreneurs.” 

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Shukla said the initiatives of the government will ensure that entrepreneurs thrive in a conducive environment. He added that the government is working to bring India into the top 50 list of nations on ease of doing the business ranking by 2022. 

Dare to Dream Awards: Full list of winners

S.No	Winner Name	Category
1	Ramesh Agarwal	Business Person of the Year
2	Manjinder Singh Sachdeva	Business Person of the year
3	Pankaj Poddar	Young Business Leader
4	Dinesh Agarwal	Inspirational Leader
5	Ramesh Babu	Inspirational Leader
6	KS Rathee	Inspirational Leader
7	Radha Venkatesan	Women Enterpreanuer
8	Himanshu Baid	Emerging Company of the Year
9	BR Bhatia	Emerging Company of the Year
10	Anshuman Singh	Emerging Company of the Year
11	Vimal Kedia	Emerging Company of the Year
12	Ajay Kumar Gupta	Emerging Company of the Year
13	Ajit Lakra	Company of the year
14	Damodar Krishan Aggarwal	Company of the year – Financial Services
15	Sanjay Bhatia	Company of the Year – Packaging
16	Sudhanshu Srivastava	Company of the Year – Agriculture
17	Devendra Shah	Company of the Year – Dairy Products
18	Tarit Sarkar	Company of the Year – EPC
19	Kapil Jhaver	Company of the Year – Healthcare
20	Rohit Gera	Company of the Year – Construction
21	Rahul Kulkarni	Company of the Year – Silicone Products
22	Sanjay Nayak	Company of the Year -Telecom Products
23	Gyanesh Chaudhary	Company of the Year – Green Energy
24	Abhinandan Sethi	Company of the Year – Infra
25	Meghana Musunuri	Company of the Year -Education
26	Balakrishna	Company of the Year -Water Purifier
27	Pradeep Cholayil	Company of the Year – Wellness
28	Ajay Agarwal	Service Excellence Award
29	Dr. Arvind Agarwal	Best Enterprising Business
30	I.C. Agarwal	Lifetime Achievement Award
31	N.K.Choudhary	Employer of the Year
32	Venkatesh	Corporate Citizen Award
33	Dr. Baldeep Singh	Corporate Citizen award
34	S B Jakhotiya	Business Innovation award
35	Shailendra Kumar Jain	Business Innovation Award
36	Gaurav Kumar Gupta	Emerging Company of the Year
37	Ajay Kumar Gupta	Emerging Company of the Year
38	Surjaram Meel	Best Enterprising Business
39	Veerendra meel	Best Enterprising Business
40	CS Sharma	Mosy Enterprising Business
41	K Srinivasan	Company of the Year – Export
42	Pradeep Dadha	Emerging Company of the Year
43	Durgesh Garg	Employer of the year

Acknowledging the dreamers, Shukla said that today’s entrepreneurs are role models for our youths. He said, “If businesses are facing any issue, they can come and discuss the issue with us directly.” 

According to Shukla, 13 crore people have benefitted from PM Narendra Modi’s Mudra scheme. It has helped people  establish themselves as employers.

Speaking on the occasion, MoS SME Giriraj Singh said, “Young enetrepreneurs should  empower themselves and set an example for everyone else.”

Singh said that for the first time in India, startups have been given a platform by PM Narendra Modi.

Sharing his vision for start-ups, Singh said, “Focus should be on using technology to create employment in villages. India needs to promote women’s participation to boost economy. People should promote social entrepreunership.”

“The governnment is willing to promote indigenous R&D,” he added. 

‘Dare to Dream Awards’ series had first started in Delhi on October 15.  

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