85. Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, 52
Founder, Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals
Why
The story goes that when he was at Birla Hospital in Kolkata in the early 1990s, people considered him a deity. Dr Devi Prasad Shetty knew there was a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid long before it became fashionable to build businesses around the poor.
Power punch
In 2003, he joined hands with the government of Karnataka to launch a Yeshaswini health insurance scheme for 16 lakh poor farmers in the state at a premium of Rs 5 per month.
What next
He is now building health city projects on a mass scale across major Indian cities in an effort to make the healthcare business viable. He also has invitations from Pakistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mexico and other developing parts of the world to replicate programmes for the poor.

86. Purno Agitok Sangma, 62
Former Lok Sabha Speaker
Why
The first Lok Sabha speaker to be elected from the Opposition in 1996, he was also the first tribal to become a Cabinet minister. His rise, from an obscure village on the Indo-Bangladesh border, began with a deputy minister’s post under Indira Gandhi in 1980.
Power punch
He split the Congress, with Sharad Pawar’s help, to form the NCP in 1999. In the last assembly elections in Meghalaya (2008), he not only quit the Lok Sabha to return to state politics and install a non-Congress government in the state, but also got himself elected to the assembly—his two sons are MLAs too. His daughter Agatha filled the Lok Sabha vacancy that he created.
What next
He does not look inclined to return to national politics, but he has kept his doors open.

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