Amitabha Sadangi, an uncommon hero tackling poverty in India

Meet Amitabha Sadangi, a businessman who gave up wealth and fortune to tackle irrigation and poverty in India.

Amitabha Sadangi's vision is to empower the rural poor with affordable, sustainable agricultural technologies. He has been a leader in creating an Indian strategy and organization to disseminate technologies developed by International Development Enterprises (India).

Foot treadle irrigation pumps and low-cost drip systems introduced by IDE (India) have helped 400,000 families double their income, a net gain of more than $40 million per year. A signature element of the IDE (India) strategy is a "supply chain" of local manufacturers, distributors and installers who earn $1 million annually. IDE (India) has sold irrigation systems to the poorest families for as little as $1, enabling them to have more food and earn more money and, thus, afford better health care and education.

Learn about his story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.

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[corfehouse]

this is what the world needs...people with the right vision...small drops make ocean

[lavakava]

Amitabh bachhan should learn from amitabha...besdies the name, they have nothing in common...lol, one is a poverty denier, the other is a poverty helper; one lives in luxury and fame, the other is a commoner....

GO AMITABHA!

[MrBkpradhan]

sadar pranam in my mail.e sir.i proud of you .you are the real kalinga vir.i am the producer annadata etv oriya.wants totelicast these impliment as well as sucess stories from all over India.thru our network channel.ithink you may respond me in my mail.annadataoriya@etv.co.in

[U5K0]

anyone know if you can buy this stuff on line?

[fedornavid]

he is my real hero.allah bless ppl like you my man.

from iran

[Abhinav Nair]

The elimination of poverty around the world should be the biggest priority for every single one of us....

[ycats1000]

it's true...

saying such a thing is very bad-

if more countries were as well balanced as america then i'm sure the world would be a much better place-

as it happens, indians have too much freedom and not enough authority, where as chinese have too much authority and not enough freedom...

either way, the poor can't invent new things without money, and the rich won't contribute if the law forbids it-

[RussiangirlNY]

by saying that americans are obese rednecks are you not making yourself party to the same kinds of behaviors wastingtime2day mentioned? does that not make you a hypocrite-truth is ours is one of the countries that takes care of its citizens and does not have a ridiculously large amount of people under the poverty line.if wasting time 2 day has so much to say against the US why doesnt he just go back to india? maybe because life is too comfortable here!

[ycats1000]

yeah we call americans obese rednecks also lol

i hope india can solve some of the class/poverty problems...

it's like crime, you treat it like fighting a war, only don't expect to actually win-

in my opinion we should be supporting india more, i feel they will overtake china-

we should have supported them when pakistan was breaking away, and when china took aksai chin from the kashmiri's-

such a shame

[wastingtime2day]

I am an Indian living in US. I have traveled to many places and do not say that I am American because most of the world feels that Americans are lazy, obese, racist and ignorant. I have been called the N word, paki, rag head and many other racist things here. Indians do not hate Americans just the behavior of a few. Generally when they travel they are loud/do not respect the culture/customs of places they visit or so I have observed and been told. Maybe you should say you are Canadian :)