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* Gurunath Kelekar of the Movement for Amity towards Roads in Goa (MARG), for his public spirited work over the decades, especially his recent work towards making Goa's roads safer places to travel on.
* Isabel de Santa Rita Vas of the Mustard Seed Company, for her role as catylist in giving young people hope and an avenue to discover and express themselves creatively in community, and the performing arts.
* Rajendra Kerkar of the Mahadei Bachao Abhiyan for transforming personal efforts to save the Mandovi river, into a people's movement.
* Subhas Naik Jorge of the Kamgarancho Ekvott for his silent yet consistent defence of workers' rights over the years, and and for his role in building the workers' movement in Goa.
* Afroze Shaikh of Bailancho Saad for promoting the economic independence of rural women and for organising people across communal lines, around rights' issues.
* Paul Fernandes of the Gomantak Times, for his quiet but persistent pursuit of those social issues that impact the common person and for boldly writing about them.