Six-member <i>BS</i> jury picks the best three in CSR

Sanjit Roy is Social Entrepreneur of 2016; Pratham Education Foundation is Social Enterprise of 2016

Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy, who turns 72 this August, has spent the past four decades of his life living the dream of creating self-sustaining village communities — not only in India but in 77 other countries, across 1,300 villages. The alumnus of Doon School and St Stephen’s College is the founder of Barefoot College, a place that skills rural women and communities to be self-reliant and sustainable.

And for more than 10 years now, the Axis Bank Foundation has been working with a set of initiatives aimed at providing sustainable livelihood opportunities in some of the remote regions of the country