Responsible Business Ideas

Presented by Group No. 3

Mitali Desai – 13Vipin Menon - 31Jaydeep Satam - 47Raman Shinde - 51Pratik Thakkar - 54

About the Company

SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd founded in 1995 by Dr. Harish Hande & Mr. Neville Williams, has headquarters in Bangalore, Karnataka (India)

Provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses.

SELCO currently employs about 375 employees in in Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar and Tamil Nadu spread across 45 energy service centres

It was conceived in an effort to dispel three myths associated with sustainable technology, considering the rural sector as a target customer base:Poor people cannot afford sustainable technologies; Poor people cannot maintain sustainable technologies; Social ventures cannot be run as commercial entities.

Products Technology

Solar lighting (CFL and LED)Special ProjectsSolar Thermal (Water heaters)Solar inverter

Finance Services

Impact/Benefit to the Society

Increased Productivity Created Awareness & Faith in Solar Power Improving Quality of Life Providing High Quality Customized Products

Milestones & Recognition 2,00,000 + solar home lighting systems in 20 years

Largest solar water heating system ~ 4,00,000 liters for a single client in India

Supported 4 solar entrepreneurs and currently mentoring 6 solar entrepreneurs in partnership with Selco Incubation Centre

Awarded the prestigious Ashden Awards (also known as the Green Oscars) twice, in years 2005 and 2007

Received Accenture Economic Development award in 2005 From Tech Museum

Ashden Award for sustainable Energy in 2005 and for outstanding achievement in 2007

Winner of FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business awards in 2009 in Corporate Responsibility.

About the Company

Anita and Shalabh Ahuja founded Conserve India as an NGO to recycle the waste plastic bags

After experimentation solution laid in up cycling the bags into sheets of plastic that could be reinvented in to accessories

Shalabh and Anita combine their expertise in engineering and her creative talents to get out the solution out this huge problem

Vision is to sale the Conserve products around the World and the profit earned to be used in the welfare of the community who cannot afford

Objective & Products

Objective◦To reduce India's rubbish mountain, improve

energy efficiency◦Help some of Delhi's poorest out of the city's

slums

Products◦Handbags◦Wallets◦Belt◦Shoe◦Sandals…

Effectiveness to Society Paying Fair wages to everyone working for them

Offers training to the workers so that they can do more better jobs in the organisation i.e from manufacturing to working in the head office

Supports schools in slums where many of its employs live helping many children to get better education that they desperately need

Also starting with two new projects which will track the general welfare of its workers and provide health clinics for those who cannot effort

About the Company Avishkaar venture management Pvt. Ltd., founded by Mr. Vineet Roy

Team member - 20 members

Aavishkaar seeks to invest early-stage capital in innovative small and micro-enterprises that are socially relevant, commercially viable and environmental friendly

Aavishkaar’s support extends beyond the provision of risk-capital and involves intensive hand-holding support and mentoring for these enterprises

Aavishkaar seeks to transform such nascent business ideas into sustainable enterprises that can create a positive impact in rural and semi-urban India

Portfolio companies operates across 26 Indian states including 7 low income states

Overview of Portfolio by Sector Agriculture and diary (Milk Mantra Diary Pvt. Ltd., ANI Farms)

Healthcare, water & Sanitation ( Water life, Vaatsalya)

Technology for Development ( Vortex, Nyst)

Education (Karadi Path)

Handicrafts (Rangsutra, Desert Artisan Handicrafts Pvt. Ltd.)

Energy ( Servals Automation, Vana Vidyut Pvt. Ltd.)

Microfinance (Grameen Koota, Utkarsh Microfinance)

Facts & Figures$ 277 Million

raised by current portfolio

companies

48 Investment across 8 sectors

75% of companies have significant operation in low income states

83% companies by first time entrepreneurs

90 % of the companies from semi-urban and rural market

Total Beneficiaries

~ 1,70,58,971

Access to quality education 5,72,798

Access to cost saving product to farmers - 15,67,747

Access to financial Services 1,09,84,768

Access to regular livelihood 27,806

Access to drinking water 26,01,600

Access to Sanitation 1,20,000

Access to low cost quality healthcare 4,19,752Access to Energy saving products 7,64,501

Recognition

G20 summit in South Kora - SME finance Challenge, November 2010

L- RAMP Fostering Award for excellence, December 2007

(Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-RAMP) is a joint initiative of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and Rural Innovations Network, supported by The Lemelson Foundation USA)

UNDP world Business Award, May 2006

( United Nation development programme)

About the company Mirakle couriers was founded in January 2009

Started by Mr. Dhruv Lakra, after his MBA in Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford

Mirakle couriers is a National Award winning courier service that employs low-income deaf adults

Employs around 70 deaf employees along with 4 management staff

It is not a charitable institution, its a social business

Customers: Mahindra & Mahindra, Aditya Birla Group, Indian Hotels company, Vodafone etc

Started with capital of Rs.21,000 and now it is earning annual revenue of Rs.25 lakhs

Working of Mirakle couriers

Process is backed by text messaging and email

Primary language used is Indian Sign Language

One phone operator is required to confirm change in address

It operates on local, domestic and International level

Handles around 65000 deliveries a month of 40 companies

Started with 2 offices in Mumbai – Churchgate and Andheri

Awards and recognition 2011 Ranked 4th in top 20 business ideas & opportunities, by

US based magazine Springwise

2010 ‘National Award for Empowerment of People With Disabilities’, by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

2009 Hellen Keller Award: Role Model Supporter of Increased Employment Opportunities for Disabled People

2009 Echoing Green Fellowship

About The Company Founded by Mr. Santosh Parulekar and his partners Shailendra, Vikram

It was formally registered in 2007 with equity of 8 Crores, backed by institutional investors and established corporate

It provides vocational training for skills required in industry to unemployed youths in rural areas with objective of economic well being of rural youth

Headquarters in Mumbai with Marketing office in Hyderabad with 18 training centres in India

PTVPL has set up a 40,000 sq. ft training campus on a 25 acre land parcel located at Ranga Reddy District in Andhra Pradesh. PTVPL has set up three more training centers across Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad, Ongole and Nizamabad

PTVPL training centres are located at Raebareli, Deoria, and Sonbhadra  in Uttar Pradesh

Courses & Services

Courses:

Heavy Machine Mechanics, Plant and equipment operator, Toll collectors, supervisors ,Material testing, Steel fixing, Occupation Health & Safety, plumbing, Electrician

Services:

Provide trained manpower in various skills which includes Electrician, Plumbers, Survey assistant, heavy machine mechanics to various companies as per their requirements

Customers:

Asian Paints, HCC, Tata Housing, Ramky Infrastructures, Shahpoorji Pallonj, Lanco Infratech ltd

Achievements

- Pipal Tree was awarded first price in the skills category during Bihar Innovation Forum II

Pipal Tree Ventures is the first Sankalp award winning organization in the field of providing vocational training for the skills in the construction industry to unemployed youth in the rural area

Pipal Tree Ventures has been recognized by Sonia Gandhi for the work done across India. Madam Sonia Gandhi invited Pipal Tree students to 10, Janpath at Delhi and felicitated them in July 2010

Pipal Tree Ventures also received the UK-India skill award for its “Outstanding Commitment to Quality“, due to its efforts to ensure that its students wages go up by at least by 50 % to 100% within 18 months after students joining the job