Organisation Overview

Parivaar (registered name: ‘PARIVAAR EDUCATION SOCIETY’ Reg. No. S/1L/18396) is registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961. The Governing Body of Parivaar is as follows:

Prof. Sougata Ray - President
Professor, Strategic Management Group,
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Shri Vinayak Lohani – Founder & Secretary

Prof. Munish Thakur - Treasurer
Professor, Strategic Management, XLRI Jamshedpur

Prof. Kalyan S. Mandal - Member
Professor, Sociology Group,
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Shri Himadri Chatterjee - Member
Government of India personnel

Shri Anup Gupta
Retired Govt. of India personnel

Shri Ramesh Kacholia
Philanthropist and Businessman
Mumbai

Shri Deepak Ahuja
IT professional
Delhi

Leadership Team

Shri Vinayak Lohani (Founder, Secretary & Head), conceptualized the formation of the Parivaar Sevavratee Leadership Team which shall engage with important decision-making processes (both operational as well as strategic) and also be at the centre of the consensus-generation and harmonizing among all important stakeholders of the organization in the times to come. It is envisaged that the Leadership Team shall be empowered to be a part of the Governing Body and thus be empowered to have its stake in long-term custodianship and stewardship of the organization. Towards this Shri Vinayak Lohani provided the initial mentorship to the key Sevavratees in the process of inducting and organizing them into the Parivaar Sevavratee Leadership group (in short Leadership Group) and mandated Shri Nimai Saha and Shri Pulak Banerjee to be the Coordinators of the Leadership Group.

From our last photographic Brochure and later reproduced in Parivaar December ’08 report the description of the ‘Leadership group’ is given as :

“This category of Seva-vratis consists of those persons who are in charge of a whole functional area / department in the organization’s operations. Each one of them has a group of persons who work in their department and thus these persons are in positions of leadership, whereby they have to do planning, execution and control for their team. This group has emerged from persons who have not only shown tremendous dedication to, and assimilation of the ideals of Parivaar but are also moreoless life-long workers of Parivaar. Each one of them ensures that the persons under their supervision deliver in the best possible way what is expected of them, and thus ensure the carrying out of Day-to-Day operations in the most efficient way. Additionally and very importantly these key persons also carry out the mentoring process for any new workers in the organization. As role models to all the other workers of the organization they play a very important role in maintaining and strengthening the ideals of service in the organization. Since most of them have seen Parivaar grow to the present level they are very important in development, perpetuation, and communication of organization’s history and memory to the newcomers and thus play an extremely crucial part in development of a rich culture and self-identity of the organization in the minds of all concerned. We can therefore, say that each one of these persons is a pillar of Parivaar, not only critical in the present state of operations but, more importantly, very critical for actualization of growth possibilities of the organization. It is indeed on the basis of such highly dedicated, capable and life-long devoted workers that enables us to take a long-term view of our plans and formulating means of their unfolding.

Shri Nimai Saha and Shri Pulak Banerjee are the Coordinators of Parivaar Sevavrati Leadership Group. Parivaar’s Sevavratee Leadership Group comprises Shri Vinayak Lohani, Shri Nimai Saha, Shri Pulak Banerjee, Smt. Sandhya Nag, Shri Gopal Das, Shri Somshankar Dutta, and Shri Sekhar Sardar. From amongst junior Sevavratees, some members are being trained to take leadership responsibilities and they include Shri Papan Pal, Shri Baidyanath Maity, Shri Jayanta Sanati, and Shri Sanat Biswas.