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Anuradha Gupta, Lucknow
CATEGORY: HT Green and Clean Crusaders
She is a pro-active and enterprising person with multiple skills and diverse experience, with an innovative mind and a sensitive and caring heart, strong will-power, perseverance, and never ending passion, energy and stamina. She has been honoured with many awards and honours. This year on International Women’s Day, she received the Bhoomika Award by Eastern Condiments and NBT. In 2015 she was grand prize winner of the Janhit Jagran National contest for best idea for social change, by Dainik Jagran. She received the prize in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She was awarded fellowship by UNITAR to do the online course ‘Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia’. She is a firm believer of the saying: Practice before you preach. After working in the industrial sector for more than a decade, as a professional cost accountant with various companies, she moved to the development and social sector in 2004. Today, she is the foundercum-general secretary of Prithvi innovations. She is also a member of Multi-stakeholders Advisory Committee (MAC) of Sustainable Lifestyle Education (SLE) and partner of Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) program of 10Year Framework Plan, (10YFP), of United Nations Environment Program and a member of the Global Clearing House on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) of 10YFP.She is a graduated from Atlas Leadership Academy (ALA) of Asia Network, Washington DC and also a ‘TTT’ Trainer for Bosh India’s Pan India CSR initiative, ‘BRIDGE’ (Bosch Response to India’s Development and Growth through Employability Enhancement). She has been associated in various capacities with number of local, national and international organizations and institutes, government and NGOs.