Rolex Award for Enterprise: two Indians in top 5

An Indian engineer working on the development of smartphones in Braille and an environmentalist trying to restore a more Chennai were among five persons selected for an international award for excellence in business.

The two Indians among the five persons selected for the Rolex Award for Enterprise, which were announced today.

Environmental Arun Krishnamurthy (25), who also owns a PR agency, has won awards for his efforts to make it more Kilkattalai, the longest in Chennai, restore with the help of more than 900 school children.

Sumit Dagar (29), an engineer who left a job and started his own business, working on Braille-based smartphone to be developed for the visually impaired.

Krishnamurthy said that his project would be completed by February 2014.

When asked why they prefer to work with children, said that "children are immediately available to volunteer. Stay intellectually and at all levels to challenge and help you to stay on the brand and its leaders future. "

Dagar said the new phone will be used in the local languages ​​which makes it easy to use for the people in the country who do not understand 'English'.

"The basic phone would be ready in 12 months and cost about Rs 8000 and will focus on the Indian market," he said.

The other three winners belong to Scotland, Italy and Mexico.

Two of the winners Karina Atkinson (Scotland) and Maritza Morales Casanova (Mexico) work for the environment and conservation projects. Selene Biffi (Italy) working on community-based educational story to settle in Afghanistan.