The people working on the urban transport activities in Parisar are:
Sujit Patwardhan: Sujit Patwardhan is a Graphic Designer and Printer by profession 
and a founder member and Trustee of Parisar since its inception in 1982. He has driven Parisar’s efforts to bring issues of environment centre-stage -through citizens’ campaigns, collaborative activism with other like minded organizations and advocacy efforts to highlight the need to ensure industrial and urban development does not lead to damage and destruction of the environment.
He has served on several important committees such as – Maharashtra State Environment Protection Committee, High Court Committee for overseeing building permissions granted in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar Panchgani Regional Planning Board, Urban Heritage Committee of PMC (Pune Municipal Corporation), Development Plan Steering Committee for PMC etc.
Since the mid-1990s he has concentrated on advocacy for Sustainable Urban Transport Policy.
Ashok Sreenivas: Ashok has a Bachelors and Doctorate in Computer 
Science from IIT, Bombay. He worked as a scientist for over 15 years in one of India's leading industrial software research labs, before moving to the social sector.
Currently, Ashok divides his time between Parisar and Prayas Energy Group. At Prayas Energy Group, he works on policy research and analysis aimed at governance and regulatory issues related to transparency, fairness, equity and sustainability and currently focuses on the Natural Gas sector. His work at Prayas has resulted in a few publications in the Economic and Political Weekly. At Parisar, Ashok works on conceptualizing and executing programs to further the cause of sustainable transport in the city and across the country.
Ranjit Gadgil: Ranjit graduated from IIT Kanpur with a Masters in Physics before going to
Cornell University for further studies. He then worked as an IT consultant for 7 years before returning to India in pursuit of something more meaningful.
He has been associated with several NGOs gaining experience in various sectors. Ranjit served as Programme Director of Janwani, an initiative of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture where he launched several urban governance projects. He worked briefly with an international foundation as their transport programme officer. He was the Lead India finalist from Pune. Ranjit's current interest is non-motorized transport.
Shweta Vernekar: Shweta has always been interested in the social sector, and 
started off with education for the children with special needs as well as socially deprived children.
She began in Parisar as an intern, and is now engaged in activities promoting awareness in various groups about the role of cycling and sustainable urban transport in the city, along with her studies. She has graduated with Psychology Majors and is currently pursuing the Civil Service Examinations as well as Post Graduation in Political Science.
Kanchan: Kanchan pursued her graduation in Botany from Ramjas college, University of Delhi.
She has recently completed her post-graduation in Environment Science from Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research, Pune. In August 2009, she presented her M.Sc Thesis paper at AOGS Conference at Singapore. Kanchan was an active member and also had been department secretary of hercollege, and has worked for number of projects and workshop for better understanding of current Environmental issues such as wildlife conservation, environment education and urban sustainability.
She joined Parisar as a project assistant, with the aim to do research and development in the area of urban mobility, as it is a need of the hour.
Ranjana Menon: Ranjana completed her masters in economics from Central 
University of Hyderabad. She is very interested in the growth and development of Urban spaces , the notion of a 'world class city', the ideas of sustainability in urban areas, as well as the governance of these spaces. She is currently working on analysing the city budgets, to understand the relation between the policies of the city and the actual allocation of resources. Ranjana is also helping to develop a framework to evaluate the quality of cycle tracks.
the Parisar team in June 2010 as a volunteer and is now a full-time employee. He joined Parisar with the intention to gain an insight into sustainable growth of a city. Before joining Parisar he was in Chennai where he was working with a auto-component manufacturer for 2 years as a manufacturing engineer.At Parisar he is a project assistant, working on projects related to non-motorized forms of commute.
Raji Satyamurthy: Raji has a Masters Degree in Computer Software from College of Engineering, Andhra University.
She worked as an
Engineer/Scientist with DRDO and thereafter in various managerial/leadership roles with major software product and services companies for over 20 years.
Joining the social sector in 2010 as a consultant to Door Step School, Pune, she currently divides her time between Door Step School and Parisar. At Door Step School, Raji provides Management consultancy for the development of Management Information Systems, Program metrics and standardization of processes and reports. At Parisar, Raji works on executing programs that support the cause of sustainable urban transport.
Surendra Nayak: Surendra Nayak has a Bachelor degree in Commerce and Diploma in Import/Export Management. He worked as a manager in one of India’s 
leading hospitality groups and looked after the logistics of import/export and warehousing prior to retirement.After a long innings in the corporate world, he wanted to devote some time to the social sector and joined Parisar in May 2010. At Parisar, he takes care of the office administration and accounts.
Apart from these, Parisar also receives interns for specific time periods and projects throughout the year. Information about all the interns we have had so far can be found here.
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