GENESIS
Abhinavgram was initiated by a group of students pursuing their education in developmental academic institutions who shared a similar vision of creating self-sustainable model villages. The villages that are remote, having no access to any developmental schemes and lacking basic amenities and infrastructure are chosen to be the target of developmental activities.
The team conducted a pilot study at Kolli hills from March 2013 to May 2015 by making several visits to Kolli hills. After a good understanding of the problem areas, Abhinavgram prioritised 57 villages as their focus areas considering its large need for development. The villages hadapproximately 1700 households inhabited by tribal people. Abhinavgram focuses on Agriculture and Livelihood, Infrastructure, Education, and Health in order to bring in a holistic development.
To create self sufficient villages with people enjoying a heightened state of mental, physical, spiritual and social wellbeing.
To act as a catalyst in overall development and transformation of villages through participatory research, assessment and implementation of development programs and facilitating liaison, realising the present and future needs of the community.
Abhinavgram is managed by a Board of members, who are supported by an Advisory Panel comprising of individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise.
A professional social worker who is passionate towards rural development. He is the Founder of Abhinavgram society. He holds a postgraduate in social work from Madras School of Social Work, Chennai and a diploma in life skills training, from Loyola college, Chennai. Prior to initiation of Abhinavgram he served as Head of external affairs at Ekam Foundation and research fellow at Gandhigram Rural University, Tamilnadu. Since the inception of the organization he is staying at kollimalai and currently serving as the General Secretary of Abhinavgram.
A passionate school teacher and a botanist. He holds a Master of Science degree in Botany. A native of kollimalai, Mr. Pandiyan has been working towards the development of the tribal people for many years. Mr. Pandiayan is presently assuming the position of President of the Abhinavgram Society and also looks into the financial affairs of the organization.
A professional social worker, presently employed as the Senior Programme Officer at ARUDECS, Theni, Tamilnadu. He is serving as the Secretary - Administration of the society
A professional social worker, presently employed at ICICI Foundation as Programme Officer. He is serving as the Joint Secretary of Abhinavgram
A practising psychologist and researcher, with several years of experience in working with individuals with mental illnesses in psychiatric settings. He is presently employed as a consultant clinical psychologist at Nirmala Medical Centre, Kerala. He is also pursuing his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, Jharkhand. Mr. Sarin is serving as the Assistant Finance Secretary of Abhinavgram.
A resource person in Sustainable development, he is the founder of several organizations which promotes organic farming and fair price markets in Tamil Nadu. He holds a Masters in Management & Systems from Madurai Kamaraj University. Over the past years he has been working towards developing local solutions to mitigate the factors which aggravate climate change. He currently serves as the Director of ‘SEA Movement’ an NGO working on Climate & Sustainability and the founder of HUMUS, an Agriculture consulting social enterprise. He also functions as a consultant for established organisations to include sustainability in their process. Mr. Radhakrishnan is an executive member of Abhinavgram Society.
A human resource manager by profession. He leads Human Resources function at Corestack, a cloud governance enterprise. Starting his HR career in the end 80’s, he has previously held several senior HR leadership positions in Indigo, Brooke Bond Lipton (HUL), Ford Motor Company, Amazon and HSBC. He is currently pursuing his Executive Doctoral Program (EFPM) at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and had earlier graduated as a Global Fellow in Talent Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rajagopalan is an executive member of Abhinavgram Society.
Chief Secretary, Dept of finance, Government of Tamil Nadu.
Founder & Director, Centre For Excellence for Organizations
Senior Advocate, Madras High Court, Chennai
Secretary, Spastic Society of Tiruchirapalli
Associate Professor and principal, Madras School of Social Work
Assistant Professor and Head
Department of Social Entrepreneurship, Madras School of Social Work
Founder - P. Rajkumar Mathavan and Associates, Tiruchirapalli
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