5 Little Known But Incredibly Successful Indians

BANGALORE: India is a country well known for producing many incredibly successful people. There are also many victorious Indians, whose path-breaking project has today made a huge difference to our lives. Read on to know such prominent personalities.

Bunker Roy:

An Indian social activist and educator, Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is the founder of the Barefoot College, which has been providing solutions to problems in rural communities for more than 40 years.

As a result of Barefoot's work, one million litres of rainwater have been harvested to provide clean drinking water to over 239,000 school children in more than 1,300 communities worldwide. The Barefoot Approach is a proven community-based model, providing basic infrastructure for power and water in remote, rural areas, as part of an integrated solution to alleviating global poverty.

Roy has been named one of the 50 environmentalists who could save the planet by the Guardian and one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2010.

The model of community-owned, managed, and financially sustained household solar light systems is today replicated in more than 54 countries, empowering more than 600 Women Barefoot Solar Engineers and providing clean energy access to 450,000 people in nearly 1,650 communities throughout India, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, and Asia.

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