by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | Business Summit, Entrepreneurship, Events, Social Round-up, Women Entrepreneur
Kolkata: Maeeshat Media Pvt. Ltd, India’s first media outlet dedicated to covering economic activities of minority communities, has given away its 10th edition of business awards in association with Aerotech Eng. Works Pvt. Ltd as event partner at an event held at Kala Kunj, Kala Mandir, Kolkata, on November 14, 2021.
Co-organized by Tameer Educational & Welfare Trust, Indian Institute of Research and Career Design 360, the 10th All India Minorities Business Summit & National Brand Awards 2021 saw the presence of more than 300 attendees that included economic experts, business leaders, entrepreneurs, social workers, and professionals from various other fields.
Mr M Azizurrahman, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd. and Danish Reyaz
The awards were given in as many as nine different categories, and the pick of them was the Maeeshat Best Eduprenuer Award to M Nurul Islam, the founder secretary of the prestigious Al Ameen Mission that has been providing modern education and career coaching to lakhs of students in West Bengal in a residential system with prime focus on poor and meritorious students.
Mr Junaid Ahmed of Khaitan – Ekla Chalo, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd.
The Entrepreneur of the year 2021 Award was given to Mr. M Azizurrahman, Director of the STARLING SILK MILLS PVT. LTD, Kolkata, one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of a wide range of silk products.
Mr Omar Shamim, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd.
On the other hand, the award for the Social Entrepreneur of the year 2021 was presented to Mr. Naiyer Fatmi, Managing Director, Alkhair Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, Patna, an interest-free micro-finance institution committed to fighting poverty and supporting minorities’ businesses.
Mr Rashid Shariff, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd.
Aspiration Classes from Kolkata, providing expert coaching to medical, engineering, and management aspirants, bagged the Best Startup 2021 Award. At the same time, the Fastest-Growing Company of the year 2021 Award went to Kolkata-based OMER RETAIL, manufacturer of men’s Kurta and Sherwani.
Mr Md Asif Iqbal and Faseel Anwar of Aspiration Classes, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd.
Khaitan- Ekla Chalo, a footwear giant headquartered in Kolkata, received the Best Customer-Friendly Company of the year 2021. The Rehbar Financial Services from Bengaluru, working to enhance Sharia-compliant value creation for businesses, took home the Promoting Halal Company of the Year 2021 Award.
Former Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Hassan Imran, editor The Daily Puber Kalom receiving the award from Danish Reyaz along with Abu Talha Jamal Qasmi of Tameer Educational & Welfare Trust
Two media brands were also among the awardees. The Daily Puber Kalom, a Bengali language daily newspaper publishing from Kolkata, was adjudged as the Emerging Local Media Brand of the Year 2021, while an Urdu daily from Ranchi, the Daily Jadeed Bharat, featured as the Emerging Local Media Brand of the Year 2021 for the states of Bihar and Jharkhand.
SM Khursheed of Daily Jadeed Bharat, receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Mr Habibullah of Aerotech Engineering works Pvt Ltd.
All the awards were given amidst thunderous applause from the audience, who were enthused by the skillful hosting of Danish Reyaz, Director and Managing Editor of Maeeshat Media Pvt. Ltd.
M Nurul Islam receiving the award from the hands of M. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Danish Reyaz of Maeeshat Media. Photo: Maeeshat
Over the years, Maeeshat has been at the forefront of spotting and promoting business talents and brands from within the minority communities. Every year it organises business summits and award functions in different cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru so that various economic professionals, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and others from across the country assemble at one place and discuss ideas and strategies to grow their ventures as well as help minorities to break free from the clutches of poverty.
by Editor | Nov 20, 2021 | Business Summit, Events, Social Round-up
By Tanwirul Hasan | Maeeshat News, Kolkata
In recognition of his tireless commitment to the educational empowerment of minorities, M Nurul Islam, founder of Al Ameen Mission, Kolkata, has been conferred the Best Eduprenuer of the Year 2021 award at the 10th All India Minorities Business Summit & National Brand Awards, held in Kala Kunj, Kala Mandir, Kolkata on November 14, 2021.
The event was organised by Maeeshat Media Private Limited, India’s leading brand consulting and media firm, in association with Tameer Educational & Welfare Trust, Indian Institute of Research and Career Design 360. Hundreds of business leaders, dignitaries, delegates, and various social leaders from different associations graced the occasion.
M Nurul Islam receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited along with Danish Reyaz of Maeeshat Media. Photo: Maeeshat
Receiving the award from the hands of Dr. Aslam Khan, founder Chairman, Octaware Technologies Limited, M Nurul Islam expressed his gratitude to the Maeeshat Media for finding him deserving for this honour and felt the award would further strengthen his resolve to work towards the educational as well as socio-economic upliftment of minorities.
M Nurul Islam’s journey began in 1986 when he started coaching seven students in all in a small room of a Madrasa where he was working. Fuelled by the desire to bring about tangible changes in the life of economically disadvantaged sections within the minorities Nurul Islam then renamed his coaching hostel into Al Ameen Mission in 1987.
The number of students increased to 11 in 1993 and out of which four became doctors and four engineers. It convinced Islam that he was on the right path, and ever since, he has never looked back.
Today the Al Ameen Mission, which has its main campus in Khalatpur, Howrah district, 80Km from Kolkata, has expanded into at least 15 districts in West Bengal with more than 56 branches educating and guiding nearly 120,000 residential students to achieve excellence in their personal, professional as well as social lives.
Nurul Islam has made sure that students from all strata of society, irrespective of their financial background, get modern, quality education in a fully residential system following Islamic values and principles.
Al Ameen Mission offers a conducive atmosphere for all students to learn and excel, allowing total fairness, equity, equality, and transparency with preferences to the poor and deserving students. In fact, it has reserved 25 percent of seats for the poor, destitute, and orphans, for which finance is arranged mostly through donation and zakat.
Al Ameen Mission also runs residential coaching classes for the engineering and medical aspirants across the state and neighbouring states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Tripura.
Besides education, Al Ameen Mission is engaged in charitable works within the community as well. It provides loans to unemployed Muslim youths and runs several scholarship programmes for needy students from other communities.
Thanks to Nurul Islam’s unwavering dedication and clear vision towards bringing quality education within the bounds of the poor, thousands of his students are now serving the nation in the capacity of doctors, engineers, researchers, administrative officers, professors, and teachers.
Nurul Islam is often referred to as Sir Syed of West Bengal for his stellar role in revolutionizing the concept of education among one of the most underprivileged communities living in one of the most backward regions of the country.
Apart from the Maeeshat Best Eduprenuer of the Year 2021, Nurul Islam has several other awards under his belt, including The Telegraph School Award for Excellence (2002 & 2009), The Telegraph School Award for the best academic performance in competitive examinations (2004), The Certificate of the Honour (2005, 2006 & 2008), and Begum Rokeya Puraskar of West Bengal Board of Madrasa (2010).
In the recent past, he was also awarded the prestigious Banga Bhusan Award (2018) from West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Entrepreneurship, News
Mumbai launches Mobile App to track the availability of Hospital ICU Beds and Ventilators
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has launched a mobile application “Air-Venti” to help residents in the city about the availability of the hospital ICU beds and Ventilators in the government and private hospitals around them.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the acute shortage of ventilators/BiPAPs for the ‘Respiratory Intensive Care Unit’ for severely ill patients. Valuable time is lost, and the patient’s lives are unnecessarily endangered. Even for patients willing to pay for the costs, a lot of times, relatives are left to fend for themselves running between multiple hospitals. This adds to severe mental trauma to close family and relatives.
The mobile app available to Android users, and shortly for iPhone, aims to provide overall statistics of ICU beds available, information on each government and private hospitals, and for each hospital, the total number of ICU beds and Ventilators, beds and Ventilators occupied and vacant, location map, ability to contact hospital through telephonic call and email.
Octaware Technologies Limited, in partnership with Probity Soft Pvt Ltd , has developed this mobile application and continue to maintain the availability of the data with a mobile backend app developed for the hospitals to update the ICU beds and Ventilators vacant status.
Mumbai is facing another challenge of shortage of Ventilators in ICUs. Currently, the city has approx. 5000 ICU Beds, but the number of ICU beds with Ventilators is just about 600. With COVID-19 impacting the respiratory system of patients, the rate of mortality is increasing due to a shortage of Ventilators in ICU. To address this challenge in a unique way, the “Air-Venti” mobile app aims to provide a platform like ‘Uber for Ventilators’ supplying Ventilators to the private hospitals through crowdsourcing funding from Individuals.
