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CSD consulting assists GLOBAL clients in four specific domains :

1. Business development2. Marketing &Communications

3. Public Health Advocacy and Communications

4. Editorial Services


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CSD Consulting firm was founded in 2004 by Chitra Subramaniam

Chitra Subramaniam is famous for uncovering

the Bofors scandal.

A Stanford University graduate, Subramaniam is a journalist by training. She has won

several awards for her work including Indias top media awards Award for Excellence in

Journalism (1990) and the Woman Journalist of the year (1990).

She was nominated Global Media Leader by the

World Economic Forum (WEF)


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CLIENTS


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Her Intelligence, awareness, respect for diversity,

incisive observations and knowledge are

critical to bag many GLOBAL clients.

But what makes her unique

is her strength and bravery ,

exposing Indian ruling

political class is not anordinary task in those days ,

in spite of many threats she

continued her investigationin BOFORS scam.

Her variedprofessional

experience

media, public

health, marketing

and business

development

gives her a rareedge in terms of

insights and

research.


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Biocon is the market leader of Biotechnologysector in INDIA


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Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw- Chairman & Managing Director,

Biocon

- First generation entrepreneur with

more than 33 years experience

in biotechnology and industrialenzymes

- she is richest first generation

entrepreneur in INDIA.

-she started Biocon in the garage of

her rented house in Bangalore with

a seed capital of Rs. 10,000.

Ms.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw founded Biocon in 1978


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Initially, she faced credibility challenges

because of her youth, gender and her untested

business model.

In spite of initial challenges ,Within a year of its inception,

Biocon became the first Indian company to manufacture and

export enzymes to USA and Europe.In 1989, Biocon became the first Indian biotech company to

receive US funding for proprietary technologies.

She spearheaded its evolution from an industrial enzymes

manufacturing company to a fully integrated bio-pharmaceutical

company with a well-balanced business portfolio of products and a

research focus on diabetes, oncology and auto-immune diseases


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Biocons IPO was oversubscribed 32 times and its first day closed

with a market value of$1.11 billion, making Biocon only the

second Indian company to cross the $1-billion mark on the firstday of listing.[
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She also received an honorary Doctorate of Science in

2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in

recognition of her contributions to biotechnology,

apart from being awarded honorary doctorates from

University of Abertay, Dundee, UK (2007), University of

Glasgow, UK (2008) and Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh, UK (2008).

Her pioneering work in the sector

has earned her several awards

Padma Shri (1989)

Padma Bhushan (2005)

TIMEmagazines 100 most

influential people in the world

Forbes list of the worlds 100

most powerful women

Financial Times top 50 women in

business list

Nikkei Asia Prize (2009) for

Regional Growth

Today, Due to her leadership, Biocon is building

cutting-edge capabilities, global credibility and

global scale in its manufacturing and marketing

activities. It has Asias largest insulin and statin

facilities as also the largest perfusion-based

antibody production facilities.


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Being a first generation

entrepreneur She build the

Biocon from scratch toGlobal biotechnology

player ,with her business

acumen & leadership skills .

She is certainly a role

model for all aspiringentrepreneurs ( not only

for women) .

she started her career as a

brewer in completely male

dominated (at least in

those times ) breweries

industry .It clearly shows the

mental strength of her.


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Products can be

made with

compost


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Poonam Bir Kasturi is called theCompostwali.

Kanyika Kini is the compost chutki

who is now married and gone away to

Germany.

Shashwati B is another compost chutki

who is still a hovering support for Daily

Dump.

Pratima Rao is the compost supporterwho can be depended upon for crises

support.

Nidhi Berera another compost

supporter who created our aprons!

Poonam Bir Kasturi ( founder )

That Daily Dump is not going to change the world but it can make a difference.

Proudly started by ALL

WOMEN TEAM


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What I liked about this venture is these women arenot as popular or as big as the earlier entrepreneurs

we discussed .

But they are unique in their own way and very

effective


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The Social Women Entrepreneur


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she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of Indias poorest and most

oppressed women workers.

In 1972 she founded the Self-Employed Womens Association

(SEWA), a trade union for women workers in Indias huge informal

sector, who make up 94 per cent of the female labour force and yet

have never enjoyed the same rights and security as those in formal

employment. Today SEWA has more than 1.2 million members acrossnine Indian states.


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SEWA is both an organisation and a movement


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SEWA Movements:

Cooperatives

DWCRA (rural producers) Groups

Social security organizations

Savings and credit groups

Federations

SEWA Services:

Sewa Bank

Health care

Child care

Sewa insurance

Legal services

Housing and infrastructure

Capacity building of Sewa members

SEWA is both an organisation and a movement

confluence of three movements : the labour movement, the cooperative movement and the

womens movement. But it is also a movement of self-employed workers : their own, home-

grown movement with women as the leaders. Through their own movement women become

strong and visible

She was granted an honorary Doctorate


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She was granted an honorary Doctorate

degree in Humane Letters by Harvard

University in June 2001.

Ela Bhatt was also awarded the civilian honour

ofPADMA SHRI by the Government of India in

1985, and the PADMA BHUSHAN in 1986. She

was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for

Community Leadership in 1977 and the Right

Livelihood Award in 1984.

her determination to empower rural &

under privileged women is highly

admirable


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Some Other Women Entrepreneurs


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Nina Lekhi founded the Baggit


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