Irfan Alam is invited by US President Obama for entrepreneur summit at Washington DC in April '10.
He is Chairman of Sammaan Foundation which works for the welfare of Rickshaw pullers.
He got banks to finance Rickshaw pullers, designed rickshaws which can shelve newspapers, mineral water bottles and some other small items for sale if the passenger needs them.These rickshaws also carry advertisements and the pullers get 50% of the ad revenue and the remainder goes to Sammaan.
This venture started with modest 100 rickshaws and now increased to three lakhs.
Also 10,000 odd are pedalling the special rickshaws, the process is underway to benefit others.
My Salute to this man.
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