Young Turks, over the past eight years, showcased entrepreneurs attempting to address real problems in education, healthcare, skills development and access to finance through innovative models. The show partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation to recognize social change agents via the India Social Entrepreneur Awards for the last eight years.

This year YT join hands with the Sankalp Forum and Intellecap Initiative. Sankalp recognises and supports innovative, sustainable, high impact social enterprises. Over the last four years, it has mentored 100’s of social entrepreneurs and facilitated over USD 120 million in equity investments in more than 30 enterprises.

The Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards were organized to recognise the best social enterprise models in five major categories. They are agriculture, food and rural business, clean energy technology, education, vocational training, healthcare, water and sanitisation and technology for development.