1 / 18Harekala Hajabba- A fruit vendor who devoted his life and life's earnings towards educating others2 / 18Tulasi Gowda- Halakki Tribal woman known for possessing endless knowledge of plants and herbs3 / 18Kushal Konwar Sarma - An extraordinary elephant doctor, helping Asia's endangered4 / 18Sathyanarayan Mundayoor - Keralite who has devoted his life to spreading the joy of reading, in Arunachal5 / 18Moozhikkal Pankajashi - Only practitioner of Nokkuvidhya Pavakalli, a traditional puppetry art6 / 18Rahibai Soma Popere - self taught tribal woman famous globally for her work in agro bio-diversity conservation.7 / 18Javed Ahmad Tak - Has been improving the lives of Kashmir's specially-abled children8 / 18Arunoday Mondal - Has been tirelessly providing medical aid to needy in remote Sunderbans9 / 18Sundaram Verma - He planted 50k plus trees in arid areas of Rajasthan with 100% survival rate, using just 1 ltr water per tree10 / 18Abdul Jabbar- Fought for fair treatment and rehabilitation of Bhopal as tragedy survivors for over 3 decades11 / 18Jagdish Lal Ahuja - Has been selflessly organizing langars for 500+ poor patients daily for over 2 decades12 / 18Mohammaed Sharif- Bicycle mechanic who has been performing the last rites of thousands of unclaimed dead bodies for the last 25 yrs13 / 18S Ramakrishnan - A neck-down fully paralysed social worker, India's biggest name in rehabilitation of divyang14 / 18Ravi Kannan- A medical messiah for cancer patients in remote Barak valley15 / 18Yogi Aeron- He has been treating burn & bite victims for free in the Himalayas, for over 35 years16 / 18Munna Master- Muslim bhajan singer, epitome of India's syncretic ethos17 / 18Popatrao Pawar- Transformed a drought prone village into a green model village18 / 18Trinity Saioo- She spearheaded the women-led turmeric farming movement in Meghalaya, enabling the women farmers to triple their incomes