While Pappammal has won the award for agriculture, Subramanian won the award for trade and industry.
Subramanian founded the trust Shanthi Social Services. Through the trust, he provides multiple high-quality services including medicines, petrol, scans, dialysis treatment, cremation, ambulance services and food at subsidized costs. This made lakhs of people who could not afford basic needs like food, healthcare and education access the above through the trust. The trust does not accept any donation.
However, the government has decided to honour him for his work in establishing Shanthi Gears from scratch and turned the company into a third largest player in gear industry. Known as the ‘Gear Man’ of Coimbatore, Subramanian completed his diploma in PSG Polytechnic in the 1960s and taught for a few years in the college, before establishing Shanthi Engineering and Trading Co in 1969. The company was manufacturing small gears. In 1972, he converted it into a private company called