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Mohan Gajanan Raja has dedicated 16 years to social service, helping underprivileged patients access affordable healthcare, supporting students facing financial difficulties and contributing to natural disaster relief efforts. Recognising his commitment to society, he has been nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026.
Mumbai knows how to recognise brilliance. It is a city of ambition, of stages and spotlights, and of people who arrive with a dream and refuse to let it go. This year, it welcomes a different kind of brilliance, the kind that does not announce itself because it is too busy getting on with the work.
Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, Snehsantosh Social Welfare Foundation steps into the Mumbai spotlight with the quiet confidence of an organisation that was never chasing it. Led by Founders and Directors Santoshi Sarafdar and Sneha Rajapurkar, it begins every journey the same way: by listening.
Continue reading to discover the story behind the nomination.
At 47, Mamta Sanjay Ulvekar isn’t stepping into the spotlight to prove she can keep up — she’s stepping into it to show there’s no age at which a woman should stop becoming. From a disciplined career in IT to voice work, acting, and now the Mrs. India stage at IBC Belleza Luxe Diva 2026, her journey is a quiet rebellion against the idea that dreams come with an expiry date. Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, she proves that reinvention isn’t reserved for the young — it’s simply reserved for the brave.
From Byculla’s classrooms to a Managing Director’s office, Monika Sachin Awate’s career reads like a masterclass in corporate ascent. But instead of resting at the top, she chose to begin again — trading the boardroom for the kitchen, and building Rajdarbar Misal with her husband, Sachin. Her story, nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, is proof that reinvention isn’t a departure from expertise — it’s a continuation of it.
Before he was a name behind education and youth empowerment initiatives, Sachin Sopan Awate was an engineering student who knew exactly what it felt like to want something he couldn’t afford. That memory became a mission — one that’s now earned him a nomination for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026. From a modest set of tutorials in Mazgaon to the Suryakund Mahapurush Society, this is the story of a man who chose purpose over comfort, and made someone else’s dream his own.
