- 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. - Salil Bijur: Salil Bijur completed his Bachelors degree in Engineering
(Information Technology) from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. He worked as a software engineer for 2 years and taught for some time in VIT.
Salil has a keen interest in public policy and civic issues and he has also worked with organisations like Aundh Vikas Mandal and Janwani which deal with citizen's participation in governance. With Janwani, he worked on the analysis of Pune Municipal Corporation's annual budget. He also hopes to join the civil services to continue working on these issues.
Currently, he also spends his time as a faculty member at Chanakya Mandal Pariwar teaching history and political science, in addition to working for Parisar. - Shweta Vernekar: Shweta is a recent addition to the Parisar team. She 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 her college, 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.
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