Rolex Announces Additional 2012 Winners of Global Awards for Enterprise

Rolex Announces Additional 2012 Winners of Global Awards for Enterprise PR Newswire NEW DELHI, November 28, 2012 NEW DELHI, November 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Visionaries Become Young Laureates Rolex announced five awards for Young Laureates at a press conference in New Delhi, India, to encourage leadership and excellence in the next generation and to acknowledge a surge of applications from young people for the Rolex Awards for Enterprise this year. http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121109/573773 http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121128/579748-a http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121128/579748-b The Young Laureates, who have inspirational projects in Mexico, India, Afghanistan and Paraguay, impressed the Jury with their passion and commitment to create positive change in their own communities and beyond. They will each receive 50,000 Swiss francs, a Rolex chronometer and worldwide publicity for their projects. The Young Laureates are: Sumit Dagar, 29, India - wants India's millions of blind people to participate more fully in society by giving them access to the digital revolution through a Braille smartphone developed for their local conditions. Arun Krishnamurthy, 25, India - is motivating students and community volunteers to restore severely polluted urban lakes in Chennai, before taking on other urban water bodies in the region.