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Our Board
 
Mr. P.N Narayanswami (Mohan) (Chairperson)
U/26 B/10 1st Floor DLF City Phase – 3Gurgaon - 112002
Mobile:+91 98110 39238 E-mail: mohan@travelscopeindia.com
   

Mr. Narayanaswami heads his own travel company based in Delhi. He has been a supporter of PYDS for several years now and has introduced many valuable people to the society who have helped further the cause. His organization Travel Scope supports PYDS with annual funding and has been instrumental in providing mentorship and employment opportunities to the students of PYDS who have pursued Tourism as a career. His Travel Agency is now among the most respected and steadily growing. He has now become the new

Chairperson after our Founder Chairperson decided to retire to permit our Board’s new policy of ensuring retirement by rotation.
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Dr. (Mrs.) Pushpa Chandra (Director)
May Fair ClinicC-42 May Fair GardensNew Delhi 110016
Mobile:+91 98102 61195 E-mail:pushpamfc@vsnl.com
 
Dr. Pushpa Chandra is a medical graduate and a Post Graduate from the reputed All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and is a leading Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Delhi. After working in a few nursing homes, she set up her own practice with a single bed. Her competence, sense of service and the goodness of heart enabled her to grow her Nursing Home into a 15-bedded full care facility. It is her dedication that has made possible over 10,000 deliveries and several major

surgeries. She is known for her kind and approachable manner and her humane treatment of patients. PYDS greatly benefits from the sense of giving that she is able to impart with her presence on the Board. She is a warm person who loses no opportunity to help. Her presence on the Board has been very valuable.

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Mr. Sujit Banerjee (Director)
L 84-A Malviya NagarNew Delhi 110017
Mobile: +91 98102 61195 E-mail: yatik.com@vsnl.com
 

 

Mr. Sujit Banerji has worked in the tourism industry for over two decades and currently runs his own travel agency based in Delhi, known for its exclusive service and travel options. Sujit was one of the very first supporters of PYDS and has been actively promoting our work with his personal support, contributions from his family members and from a group of well-wishers. He has a keen interest in the advancement of the lives of rural children and despite a very busy schedule, gives quality time to PYDS and has helped to mobilize support in kind in the form of computers and other facilities for

PYDS. He provides mentorship to the children of PYDS as well as concrete internship options to the older participants of PYDS’s education program. Sujit pursues spirituality and healing as a means of increasing the happiness quotient amongst people.
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Col. Arun Mamgain (Director)
Rimcollian’s Cottage 109 Phase 2, Vasant Vihar Dehra Dun, 248006
Mobile: +91 135 2762191 E-mail: ar_mamgain@yahoo.com
   

Col. Arun Mamgain had a successful career spanning 33 years in the army as a combat soldier where he trained teams and led from the front twice in operations against Pakistan. Col. Mumgain served as Commandant (head) of Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) Dehra Dun for over seven years, and his responsibilities included both educational and administrative matters (www.rimcollege.org). Col. Mamgain is also an Honorary member of the Board of Advisors and of the Old Boys Trust of the RIMC. He served

overseas at the corporate level of a leading multinational corporation pioneering top of the line school education as a for-profit business (www.gemseducation.com). Col. Mamgain has been providing invaluable local support, making frequent visits to the school to attend functions, greet guests, and motivate PYDS learners and has been solely responsible for the annual outbound trips to other States that 60 of our students undertake from year to year. He has more recently become the local director who assists the CEO in the day-to-day work of the Society
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Mrs. Sangeeta Shahane (Director)
B-83 Sushant Apartment Sushant Lok – Phase I Gurgaon 122002
Mobile:+91 98116 15258 E-mail: sangeetashahane@gmail.com
   

Mrs. Sangeeta Shahane is a teacher and has been associated with the Purkal project for the past few years. She has been teaching one of the most important but often neglected subjects of today’s time – soft skills and communications. She began as a lecturer in English Literature and has since conducted tailor made modules in English language as well as communication skills for the front line staff of the hospitality and service industry. She joined the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

industry in 2003 which gave her a deeper insight into the importance of development of communication skills addressed at a large international audience. After serving as a full-time faculty at Rai University, she moved on to the ICFAI Business school where she is currently working. A perfectionist to the core and rated as a tough teacher, she is extremely popular among the student fraternity.
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Mr. Puneet Kashyap (Director)
E – 39 Saket New Delhi – 110017
Mobile:+91 99588 83355 E-mail: puneet93@gmail.com
   

Mr. Puneet Kashyap successfully oversaw the conclusion of a donation of seed money for PYDS’s school building from M/s Elan Computing, U.K. He has contributed significantly to PYDS. We have assembled several friends to the Purkal cause, thanks to him. The Society banks heavily on him for the growth of its donor base. He has obviously been a very successful member of the service industry, deserving it due to his genial nature, his understanding of the others point of view and his

.empathy. Currently, the CEO of an international inbound tour Operator Company, he is witness and part of the industry’s phenomenal growth. He was earlier associated with hotels and then product marketing, working out of the Middle East for 13 years.
 
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Mr. G.K Swamy (Secretary)
Purkal GaonP.O: BhagwantpurDehradun - 248009
Mobile: +91 98373 37660 E-mail:gkswamypyds@gmail.com
   

Mr. G.K. Swamy did his Master in Economics from the Madras University and then relocated to Bombay and became a consultant – counselling entrepreneurs in capital investment decisions, working Capital Management, Exchange and Export Risk Management. He retired in 1995 and has since 1997 been living in Dehradun where he and his wife Chinni have been working with the community. Swamy promoted The Purkal Youth Development Society in 2006 and has since then spent most of his energies and time promoting and working for the cause. His wife Chinni heads the "Stree Shakti" wing of the Society, which deals with the creation of

designer handmade patch worked quilts and other quilted products with the help of over 90 women of the villages around Purkal.
 
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Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma (Director)
18 E, Ordanance Estate, Raipur Road, Dehradun (Uttarakhand)
Ph: +91 94110 03222 E-mail: sanjeevsharma208@gmail.com
 

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma holds his BTech (Electronics & Telecommunication) from AMU(1997) and his MTech(Communication Systems) from IITKanpur (1999). He joined CDOT in 1999, and then Ordnance Services in 2003. Sanjeev resigned from Ordnance Services in early 2007 to pursue his passion for contributing towards the field of education in general and technical education in particular. He began imparting coaching to graduate engineers after finding level of technical learning in

finding level of technical learning in local engineering colleges uninspiring. After years of perseverance and hard work, Sanjeev established quality based GATE coaching institute in Dehradun which was incorporated as Company SS Educore Pvt. Lt. In 2011. He has joined the Board very recently and we do believe that his passion for Science will help inculcate this spirit in our youth.
 
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Mr. Pawan Jain (Director)
P.Jain & Co. 161/B, Rajpur Road, Dehradun (Uttarakhand)
Ph: +91 94120 51852 E-mail: pjditumtum@rediffmail.com
 

Based in Dehra Dun since 1989, he is an architect of note and has unique involvement with the promotion of Traditional Indian construction, Private developments, numerous resorts, schools hotels and restaurants. He has travelled extensively in India and has deep interest in folk crafts and house building techniques of local people. He worked as a local specialist/ consultant in a film for BBC London entitled` Walling on the roof of the world’.  The film is about a technique of making walls

without mortar which is an ancient Scottish technique. He has been associated with several books as an author and consultant. Born in June1963, he is deeply interested in Traveling, camping, wildlife/bird life watching, Gandhian thinking, Theatre, cross country and hill highway driving. Fluent spoken and written Hindi, English and Punjabi are his language skills. He can understand Bengali, Gujrati and Urdu.

An active member of the council of Architecture, Institution of values, FRIMA golf course Dehradun, Doon Art Society as an active painter, NCPDP an NGO working on Earthquake resistant technology, TARN an NGO working with earthquake retrofitting/repair, he is now a member of our Board

 
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Our Board
Mr. P.N Narayanswami (Chairperson)
Dr. Pushpa Chandra (Director)
Mrs. Sangeeta Shahane (Director)
Mr. Sujit Banerjee (Director)
Mr. Puneet Kashyap (Director)
Col. Arun Mamgain (Director)
Mr. Sanjeev Sharma (Director)
Mr. Pawan Jain (Director)
Mr. G.K Swamy (Secretary)