It is again time to celebrate the inferior heroes between us, those who, through their actions and deeds, deeply influenced change in society, communities, thinking or physical spaces to become a better place for life. The BusinessLine Changemaker Awards 2025 is open for nomination by June 30.
Change is not easy. While most of us prefer the present, there are people looking for a change without wanting to contribute to it. But there are few people who actually dive to change quietly. They are quiet crusaders who must be supported and celebrated.
If you know about people who have brought a change in your community or in society in general, please support them by nominating them for businessline Changemaker 2025 prices. They are people who must be felicitated for their efforts to positively affect the world. Individuals who have been agents may also be nominated.
Six editions of the prizes have been held since 2018, in the year when the Hinda trade line entered the 25th year of publishing. Edition 2021 could not take place because of the pandemic. Now the work has started to publish the Changemaker 2025 awards.
Five categories:
Nominations can be made in five categories of awards – Changemaker: Social Transformation; Changemaker: digital transformation; Changemaker: Financial Transformation; Young Changemaker and iconic Changemaker. One flagship is obtained by Changemaker of the Year, which is awarded to a person or organization that has given a far -reaching change.
Process:
As soon as the nomination window closes, the applications will be tested and evaluated by BusinessLine along with our knowledge partners (Deloitte and Ashoka). Candidates for narrower selection will be verified by our validation partner (Niiti consulting) before the list is sent to an independent jury to choose the winner in each category.
2024 winners:
In 2024, the integral coach factory (ICF) in Chennai, the largest manufacturer of railway trainers in the world, which has earned Indian rail travel with Vande Bharat trains, set new standards in speed, comfort and safety, changemaker of the year.
The Changemaker of the Year’s iconic Award was awarded to Ashok Jhunjhunwala, a visionary innovator who transformed communication, mobile payments, energy and business in India, a pioneering incident solution and supported the prosperous ecosystem in IIT Madras Research Park.
For financial transformation, the price was gained in Mann Dehi Bank, which has become a strong force for change, economically and socially seizing rural women across the mahara and transforms the search for justice in Mhaswad to the extended authorization movement.
The price for digital transformation was awarded to Molbio Diagnostics, which through its TrueNeNATA platform revolutionized health care by providing life rescue, cheap diagnostics to areas limited to resources with timely and accurate disease detection.
Wildlife Trust was awarded the price for social transformation. The Young Changemaker Award was awarded to D. Gukesh, the youngest Indian grandmother who broke the 2750 ELO rating.
The award for 2024 was distributed by the Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman.
Raghuvir Srinivasan, Editor, BusinessLine, said: “Awards Changemaker, which is published, an example of the fact that we are constantly looking for a change in business or society can be a great inspiration and recognition for those whose work is positively influenced by communities and societies.”
Search QR code or use this link for nominations: thbl.news/blcm2025ed
Published – May 24, 2025 22:45
