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,[1] and is an ambassador of the Swaccha Bharat Abhiyaan.[2]

Padmanaban Gopalan
Born (1993-04-13) 13 April 1993
Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma materGovernment College of Technology, Coimbatore (GCT)
OccupationSocial entrepreneur
Known forWaste Management, Social Entrepreneurship
AwardsCommonwealth Youth Award (2019), National Youth Award (2019), Chief Minister’s State Youth Award (2017)
Websitepadmanaban.in

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. Padmanaban is called the 'Robin Hood fo Excess Food' and used to conduct awareness and motivational classes in schools on demerits of wasting food.[3][1]

Key initiatives
  • No Food Waste: A tech based volunteer driven platform that recovers excess food and delivers it to the people in need.[3]
  • EduDharma : A crowdfunding platform where people can donate for the education fee for the people who can not pay their fees.[2]
  • Toilet First : A toilet construction-a-thon project with Municipality Corporation, Private companies and civil engineering students.[2]
  • 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.[1]

Awards and recognition
  • International Visionary Award for 2015 from the Pollination Project of California[4]
  • Limca Book of Awards for the paperless event - a symposium in college[2]
  • Chief Minister State Youth Award 2017[5][6]
  • TEDx Coimbatore 2017[7]
  • Commonwealth Youth Award Winner 2019[8][9][10][11][12][13]
  • Participant of UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum[14]
  • National Youth Award for the year 2016-17 (2019)[15][16][17][18][19]
  • TEDx SRMKattankulathur 2019[20]

References
  1. Jeshi, K. (13 August 2016). "Being the change: Stop that dumping". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  2. "Civil engineering students to help construct toilets in households". The Times of India. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  3. R., Geetha. "Feeding The Needy A Case Study On 'No Food Waste Campaign" (PDF). International Journal of Management, Technology and Engineering. ISSN NO : 2249-7455.
  4. "Meet a Visionary: Padmanaban Gopalan, the Robin Hood of Excess Food". HuffPost India. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  5. "This young Entrepreneur makes city proud".
  6. "Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu". www.sdat.tn.gov.in. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  7. "TEDxCoimbatore | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. "Winners of Commonwealth Youth Awards 2019 announced | The Commonwealth". thecommonwealth.org. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  9. "Indian social entrepreneur wins Commonwealth award". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  10. Sangeetha, P. (15 March 2019). "'Feed people, not landfills'". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  11. Staff Reporter (15 March 2019). "No Food Waste founder bags Commonwealth award". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  12. "Nigeria's Osowobi Wins Commonwealth Youth Person of the Year 2019". allAfrica.com. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  13. "Indian youth wins award for feeding the hungry | YourCommonwealth". www.yourcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  14. "Young social entrepreneur in India turns wedding waste into meals for the needy". UN News. 17 May 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  15. "Shri Kiren Rijiju confers the National Youth Awards for excellent work and contribution in different fields of development and social service". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  16. Staff Reporter (13 August 2019). "Honour for 'No Food Waste' founder". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  17. "Winning without waste". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  18. CovaiMail (14 August 2019). "'No Food Waste' Founder wins the National Youth Award". The Covai Mail. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  19. "Citys Padmanaban Gopalan conferred with Govt. of Indias prestigious National Youth Award for 2016-17 at New Delhi". simplicity.in. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  20. Just I read-The spring of big change | Mr.Padmanaban Gopalan | TEDxSRMKattankulathur, retrieved 16 December 2019
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