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Co-Founders

SARIKA PANDA BHATT

Sarika is leading the Raahgiri Day movement in Haryana. She is also helping other cities to replicate this hugely successful concept. She is leading the non-motorized transport work and India Vision Zero work in Haryana and Punjab. Sarika has about 15 years of experience in the field of urban development, transport, environment and architecture.

Sarika was selected as one of the 60 global women leaders in the world who are making a change in how we move around cites. The recognition came from TUMI, Germany. Sarika is bicycle mayor of

Gurugram by BYCS, Netherlands. She has been formally trained as an architect and urban planner with a Master’s degree in Sociology

Co-Founders

Rajesh Kalra

Rajesh Kalra is Executive Chairman, Asianet News Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. He is former Chief Editor of Times Internet, TIL, Narad Online, Economic Times, Business Standard, Times Of India and Dataquest. A seasoned journalist for three decades. He is passionate about writing on themes such as IT, telecommunications, sports and developmental issues. He is also a sportsman, mountaineering enthusiast, mountain biker and marathoner. He is also member of Olympic Task Force and All India

Council of Sports. He runs a blog, namely Random Acess which covers issues of sports, development, IT and communications.

Co-Founders

Manit Jain

Manit Jain has been a key advisor to Heritage Xperiential School. An alumnus of Harvard University and co-chair of FICCI’s School Education Committee ~ FICC! Arise, Manit Jain supports Heritage Xperiential School through infrastructure development, talent acquisition, teacher’s capacity building and parent engagement.

Co-Founders

Dhruv Swamini

Dhruv Swamini is co-founder of Duplay advocates for sports activities in Gurugrams. She is a former consultant at Mekinsey & Company. She started her entrepreneurial journey through partnering with Duplay, a UAE based company to get people together to play sports and promote ‘and establish sporting facilities in Gurugram.

She is a computer science engineer and an MBA graduate by education. She has also helped Public Health Foundation of India to set up the immunization Technical Support Unit to work with MoHFW.

Trustees

Shubhra Puri

Shubhra Puri is the Founder of Gurgaon First, a social enterprise that promotes sustainability, women safety, good governance and empowerment in Gurugram through workshops and research books. She has been writing a regular column with Hindustan Times, Gurugram edition under the column “Human Impact’. Ms. Puri also writes, composes and produces songs on sustainability issues.

An MBA, Ms Puri has been a journalist with 20 years of experience in business journalism. She started her career in 1995 with The Economic Times and later on worked as Editor-content

Advisors

Alok Mittal

Alok Mittal (IPS, Haryana – Additional Director General of Police) is a huge enthusiast of Sustainable Mobility & Road Safety. The officer has worked as inspector General of NIA, New Delhi; Joint Commissioner of Police in Gurugram; SSP Rohtak, Faridabad, Panipat; SP of CBI, New Delhi & Panchkula and ore.

He has introduced public centric initiatives to improve policing in Gurugram. He initiated all Women PCR in Faridabad and Cyber Safe Campaign in Gurugram to educate students.

He has been honoured by Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service de the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services.

Advisors

Deepa Malik

Deepa Malik (Indian athlete, Paralympic Games medalist, expert consultant with MoHUA & Smart CitiesMission) is the first Indian woman to win a medal at Paralympic Games, that to consecutively for three years. She is currently world number one in F-53 Category. She has championed shot-put, Javelin Throw, Discus Throw, Swimming & Motorcycling besides, participates in various adventure sports.

In 2020, she was elected as President of the Paralympic Committee of India. She has won 58 national & 23 International medals across all disciplines She has been conferred with Arjuna Award in 2012 and

Padma Shri award in 2047.

Advisors

Hitesh Vaidya

Hitesh Vaidya has more than 20 years of broad-based urban development policy, project formulation, implementation and program management experience
on mainly UN, World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assignments. The areas he has been associated are urban development, urban
governance and urban Infrastructure management. Poverty Alleviation has been an integral component inall the projects. Prior to joining National Institute ofUrban Affairs, He was Country Representative of UN-Habitat India.

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