E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award: 25 in the fray
New Delhi: Twenty-five of India's top business leaders have been selected as finalists for the forthcoming Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Now in its fifth year in India, the award will be announced on 29 October at a celebration banquet here. A seven-member jury, comprising eminent personalities and chaired by N R Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor, Infosys Technologies, has selected the finalists from more than 130 nominations received this year.

The 25 finalists for 2003 are Aditya Puri of HDFC Bank; Ajay G Piramal of Nicholas Piramal; Ashwin Dani of Asian Paints; Atul Punj of Punj Lloyd; B N Kalyani of Bharat Forge; Dr Devi Prasad Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya; Jagdish Khattar of Maruti Udyog; K G Ramachandran of BHEL; Narendra K Patni of Patni Computers; O P Lohia of Indo Rama Synthetics; Onkar S Kanwar of Apollo Tyres; Pawan Jain of Safe Express; Prithipal Singh of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd; Radhika & Prannoy Roy of New Delhi Television; Raghav Bahl of TV 18 India; Ratan Naval Tata of the Tata group; S Abhaya Kumar of Shasun Chemicals; Samprada Singh of Alkem Laboratories; Sanjay S Lalbhai of Arvind Mills; Shahnaz Husain of Shahnaz Group of Companies; Subhash Ghai of Mukta Arts; Subhash Sehgal of Ozone Ayurvedics; Subir Raha of ONGC; Uday S Kotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank and Dr Verghese Kurien of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.

Along with Narayana Murthy, who chaired the panel of judges for 2003, others on the jury include A K Purwar, chairman, State Bank of India; Kalpana Morparia, executive director, ICICI Bank; Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman, Aditya Birla Group; Dr Onkar Goswami, chief economist, Confederation of Indian industry; Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and group managing director, Bharti Enterprises; and T N Ninan, editor and publisher, Business Standard.
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