- Source: Padmanaban Gopalan
Padmanaban Gopalan (born 13 April 1993) is an Indian social entrepreneur who works in the area of waste management, hunger, urban sanitation and development. He hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is an ambassador of the Swaccha Bharat Abhiyaan.
Early life and education
Born in Salem, Tamil Nadu, Padmanaban completed his high school from St. John's matriculation in Salem itself and passed his intermediate from Sri Vidhya Mandir Uthangari. He further did his graduation in Bachelor of Production Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. During his college days, Padmanaban started a Green Club and worked with other engineers to develop various products like alternative wood using sugarcane molasses and coconut shells; and mobile chargers using renewable sources of energy like solar and wind.
Key initiatives
No Food Waste: A tech based volunteer driven platform that recovers excess food and delivers it to the people in need.
Toilet First : A toilet construction-a-thon project with Municipality Corporation, Private companies and civil engineering students.
No Dumping : A project dedicated to collect segregated waste to be processed at a corporate premise. Also an app to measure the waste being generated in the city.
Awards and recognition
International Visionary Award for 2015 from the Pollination Project of California
Limca Book of Awards for the paperless event - a symposium in college
Chief Minister State Youth Award 2017
TEDx Coimbatore 2017
Commonwealth Youth Award Winner 2019
Participant of UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum
National Youth Award for the year 2016-17 (2019)
TEDx SRMKattankulathur 2019
References
External links
Official website
Padmanaban Gopalan on Facebook
Padmanaban Gopalan on Twitter
Padmanaban Gopalan on Instagram
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Filmografi M. G. Ramachandran
- Daftar penerima penghargaan Padma Bhushan (2000–09)
- Padmanaban Gopalan
- No Food Waste
- Govindarajan Padmanaban
- Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
- G. Ramanathan
- Commonwealth Youth Programme
- Coluthur Gopalan
- G. Shankar
- Sunita Williams
- Ratan Tata
