NIPM award for Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala CEO
The Hindu
MALAPPURAM
Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala Chief Executive Officer G.C. Gopala Pillai has won the National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM)’s Excellence Award. Dr. Pillai was chosen for the award considering his 45 years of management expertise. He accepted the award at NIPM regional meet held at Thiruvananthapuram recently. He was chairman and managing director of FACT, and founding managing director of KINFRA, chairman of KELTRON. Arya Vaidya Sala managing trustee and chief physician P. Madhavankutty Varier felicitated him on Wednesday.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.