About Us

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.

 

Vision

To create self sufficient villages with people enjoying a heightened state of mental, physical, spiritual and social wellbeing.

Mission

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.

OUR OBJECTIVES

  • To enhance rural livelihood by creating more opportunities to work and generating new income sources
  • To develop existing sources by introducing environment friendly, sustainable and scientific practices and ensuring its utilisation through proper training.
  • To ensure proper support to the vulnerable population and marginalised families including aged, orphans, HIV/AIDS infected persons, transgendered, mentally and physically challenged people
  • To enhance basic educational facilities ensuring its quality for benefiting the next generation
  • To provide basic health facilities and ensure proper utilisation of those facilities through awareness generation and promote health behaviours in the villages through awareness generation and proper reinforcement 
  • To seek empowerment of women through entrepreneurship development training.

PEOPLE BEHIND ABHINAVGRAM

Abhinavgram is managed by a Board of members, who are supported by an Advisory Panel comprising of individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise.

OUR

Board Members

Mr. THIRUPPATHI P

Mr. THIRUPPATHI P

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.

Mr. PANDIYAN S A

Mr. PANDIYAN S A

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.

Mr. JOHN DURAI

Mr. JOHN DURAI

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

Mr. SADEESH KUMAR

Mr. SADEESH KUMAR

A professional social worker, presently employed at ICICI Foundation as Programme Officer. He is serving as the Joint Secretary of Abhinavgram

Mr. SARIN DOMINIC

Mr. SARIN DOMINIC

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.

Mr. RADHARISHNAN S

Mr. RADHARISHNAN S

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.

Mr. RAJAGOPALAN RAGHAVAN

Mr. RAJAGOPALAN RAGHAVAN

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.

OUR

Advisors

A.M. Swaminathan IAS (Rtd)

A.M. Swaminathan IAS (Rtd)

Chief Secretary, Dept of finance, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Mr. Deenadayalan. S

Mr. Deenadayalan. S

Founder & Director, Centre For Excellence for Organizations

Mr. Ramachandram

Mr. Ramachandram

Senior Advocate, Madras High Court, Chennai

Mr. Subramanian M.

Mr. Subramanian M.

Secretary, Spastic Society of Tiruchirapalli

Dr. Raja Samuel

Dr. Raja Samuel

Associate Professor and principal, Madras School of Social Work

Dr. Antony Stephen

Dr. Antony Stephen

Assistant Professor and Head
Department of Social Entrepreneurship, Madras School of Social Work

Mr. M. Rajkumar Mathavan

Mr. M. Rajkumar Mathavan

Founder - P. Rajkumar Mathavan and Associates, Tiruchirapalli

Our Partners

Abhinavgram is a not-for-profit organisation registered in 2015 under Tamil Nadu Society Registration Act, 1975. It was initiated by a group of youngsters who were passionate about the development of rural communities in India.

Contact

SAKKARAI PATTY VAZHAVANDANADU P. O. SEMMEDU 637411 NAMAKKAL DISTRICT TAMILNADU, INDIA

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