Social enterprise of the year: Learning first

Pratham is one of the biggest non-government interventions in the education sector in India

Business Standard Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2016

The idea and name for Pratham came from UNICEF, says Madhav Chavan, co-founder of the organisation that reaches close to six million students across the country. Chavan, whose association with illiteracy among the under-privileged in the country predates his life at the NGO, says he and Farida Lambay were tasked with the creation of a "societal mission" that would bring together business, civil society and the government to tackle the problem of education by UNICEF. Pratham was born out of their collective efforts. 

Chavan has been working in the field of adult