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Passionate Volunteer, and an Environment foot soldier with more than two decades of corporate experience & customer service attitude. Working with sixty NGOs & social groups, I bring in variety of people management, organization, relationship, team building skills that improve stakeholders value & engagement towards meeting & satisfying social objectives through the eyes of company's vision & employee volunteership.
- Successfully planned organized & ran hundred weekend events towards Swach Bharat Abhiyan Mission
- Partnered with Pune Municipal Corporation & Adar Poonawala clean City movement for Ideation, planning, execution of Cleanliness drive across various locations & chronic spots of Pune.
- Collaborated with various designer groups across Pune to bring about visual changes like the Pune Airport road Good Message Wall, Warli Art at Road Transport Office,Magarpatta-Gadital 22 pillars, Bhumkar Chowk, Shivainagar Railway Station.
- Help enabled drive as a platform for Nukkad Natak/street plays, bringing in citizens involvement towards clean India Movement
- Arranged street plays & flash mobs from time to time at Pune Railway station & other public areas.
- Ran "Dhon Tas Swach PunePrayas" for four years in a row with 70+ single day milestone events, projects and ongoing events for 4 year without a break. This helped engage 5000+ volunteers with bit size , low effort volunteer events.
- Conducted Swach pledge drives across seven different schools of Pune along with Pune municipal Corporation
- Conducted two school cleanliness programs.
The Human Library aims to address people's prejudices by helping them to talk to those they would not normally meet. The organization uses a library analogy of lending people rather than books
- Presented as Human Book since June, 2017 as a part of the Global Harmony Trust, the Pune-chapter of Human Library.
- Have been able to inspire 20 citizens to take up volunteering for various social causes.
- Presented as The Super Volunteer at Diversity & Inclusivity Drive at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) – Human Library
- Organizing & planning Citizen's support , friends group to preserve & protect Dr. Salim Ali Bird Park(SABP).
- Conduct three support rallies & multiple Bird walk session averaging group of 5 till 120 or more people with Bird watch experts & ornithology experts from BHNS.
- Lead & organized specifically Bird Sessions for three college students group
- Participated & volunteered for joint surveys between Mahametro / Pune & SABP environment Impact study group.
- Volunteered to present story of SABP on a documentary [ No Mans Land] prepared by Symbiosis Institute of Media, Communication Students, Pune and managed media relations for one of their rally.
- Conducted various cleanup & plantation drives to rebuild the park & organized guided study groups for night trails.
- Part of delegation to meet environment minister to escalate , raise the issue of sanctuary preservation amidst riverside road developments & engaged citizens to run the signature campaigns.
- Demonstrated engagement through events and advocacy, tie up with corporate network to increase awareness and increase participation.
- Personally involved with fundraising thrice & completed 100 KM walkathon event under group name "The Sahyadri Trailwalkers"
- Volunteered my time & expertise to conduct two 20 KM practice, preparatory walks for new members across Lohegaon & ARAI hills in Pune.
- Partnered & Conducted over 100 Weekend event with Swachh Pune Swachh Bharath & other Intermediaries.
- Conducted two tree plantation drives across PTC Support & R&D functions at Hanuman Tekdi.
- Planned & organized Trekking cum cleanup drives across Sinhgad & Tikona forts.
- Part of "Joy of Giving" week , lead PTC Technical Support functions to organize , conduct e-waste, raddi, grain donation & "Buy your own meals" program to fundraiser. Later proceeds were shared with Hope for Children Foundation resulting in happier , engaged employees & beneficiaries
- Spearheaded a "Tea time" Campaign to rid of street side cum shelter less people from cold with blanket donation drives.
- Participated in Sakore Nagar, Yerwada, Shastri nagar Slums to paint pushcarts of Swach Workers & uplift the messaging of red dot campaign.
- Did Warli art wall painting of Road transport office, Pune & beautified the space that received very good media coverage for employees as well PTC.
- Area Sabha Association of Pune (ASAP - 2018-2020) & Pune Tree Watch (Online Member since '07)
- Initiated, assembled advocacy group of 52 like minded NGO around environment arena in preserving & protecting the green cover of Pune.
- Managed as co-admin of green citizens whatsapp group with ASAP.
- Influenced & engaged with multiple stakeholders from Chief Secretary , Govt of India,Urban municipal bodies, forest administrations in raising issues of loss of green cover in various parts of Pune.This resulted in saving parks, riverbeds (Aundh , Pune / Wai, Satara) , green cover along five river bodies that had turned canals & removal of encroachments to protect green cover , more than four times in a span of four year.
- Advocating & re-instituting proper formation of Tree Authority body for Pune Municipal Corporation.
- Helped spread thought leadership & raising awareness through various news online & offline media as part of core groups commitment.
- Being a environment foot soldier & with fellow ASAP members saved 37 trees from being cut in Pune University Aundh Road that housed many 50 year old trees by sleeping & protecting the trees during a critical tree cutting incident.
- Spread & advocate Maharashtra Urban Trees Preservation & Protection Act of 1975
- Author of "Single Page Tree Act" . Worked pro bona to Tree Authority department & under ageis of the previous municipal commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation.
- Conducted Tree Plantation Drives across seven hills of Pune with many NGOs , forest departments , Urban/Social Forestry. Also participated for 5 yrs in row around 33 Crore plantation drive by Maharashtra Govt.
- Personally conducted more than hundred Tree Act Awareness sessions across plantation drives, schools, colleges, offices & general citizen forums & assemble.
- Prepared single handedly , the Pune's first "Urban Trees, Citizens Election Manifesto" through "Operation Green-2019" & launched it at Patrakar Bhavan, Pune with Media briefings.
- This in conjunction with concept demand of "Go-Treegital" received much appreciation thereby helping me work with PMC Tree Authority to go online for Tree permissions as a first step.
- Helped Citizen Co-operative housing Societies & Corporate offices plant & officially adopt Trees using Form-I of Tree Act Annexure.
- Red Dot Campaign - Safe disposal of menstrual waste & promote empathy towards Dignity of Labor issue related to Swach door-to-door Safai Karmacharis.
- Evangelized the cause too more than 4000 women, 20+ Schools & 7 Societies to adopt safe disposal., using "Buy yourself a red lipstick"
- Administrator of Sanitation & Hygiene whatsapp group that covers the entire spectrum of seven NGOs who work in the domain of Menstrual hygiene & disposal.
- Different organizations partner in this platform to spread awareness using comic books, video shows, help fund sanitary pad donations using CSR funds, promoting cloth pads & also giving training through whatsapp to increase menstrual cups adoption for a sustainable environment.
- The other group also deals with cultural sensitivity , taboo topics in this area.
- Collaborated with SIPME - Soroptimist International(Pune Metro East) women's group in institutionalizing Red dot with their "Sanitary Napkins Advocacy Programme".
- Currently working with two small firms in impressing upon the need of optional work from home as policy for working women & to tide over discomfort during periods.
- Multi pronged approach acted as catalyst in PMC instituting a three bin system to collect this type of segregated waste from an earlier two bin system.
Cleaned up & restored entire Agazhi a Heritage Site accompanying a temple which dates to Karikalan time, circa 100 BC-190 AD,
- TEF organized a LED String making workshop at the Yerwada Mental Hospital for rehabilitation of the treated patients (M&F).
- Beautified rehabilitation workshop room to create a positive atmosphere.
SwaCH has adopted 20 Ghats in Pune and Pimpri Chincwad. The
wet Nirmalya(flower offerings) collected by the NGO and taken for composting amounted to 106
tonnes.
- To organize & Collect Nirmalya Collection Drive during Ganesh Visarjan festival for 5 day by advocating segregation & reduce un-segregated items getting into Pune rivers . Attended to around 200 families foot fall.
- Administered for continuous three years (2017/18/19) across three checkpoints of the total 16 Ghats across Pune.
- Manned 3 Ghats & garnered 50 corporate Volunteers from Cognizant, Pune to volunteer at site amidst cultural sensitivity of the festivity.
Collaborated with Swach Alandi , MIT Students group, strategized & contributed towards collecting 1.5 Lakh POP idols during Ganesh Visarjan festival from entering into rivers & springs/ponds.
Cleaned solo entire Mastani talav (Heritage Site) collected ~100 Kgs plastic on World environment day '2016 and inspired another 20 volunteers to take up plantation & further cleanup the following years
Planned, Organized, executed
Water Day festival across involving 1000 volunteers across colleges
& ~120 Citizens from public domain participating -'2017
Participated in Brand Audits with SwaCH MLP drive along with Plastic Manufacturers association to reinforce commitment to Extended producers responsibility and action. Team of 50 worked on this project.
Conducted 15 day “Paryavaran Pandhravada” environment festival along with Pune Municipal Corporation & Samarth Bharath - '2018. Five technical Sessions, 3 round tables , film shows, Bedsa Caves, Raigad Heritage cleanup drives & many on ground activities.Foot fall of around 2000 participants.
- Pune Flood relief / restorations of huts & cleanliness cum food program with FORSECHM Tuba Foundation. Beneficiaries include 50 families.
- Ground Action group in distributing flood relief material across 3 villages that were affected during Sangli/Kolhapur floods with Being Volunteer Group. Also carried out Field Survey that resulted in 200 students receiving books & stationeries that were lost during floods.
- Co-ordinator & in setting up volunteer control center for Patil Estate slum, Pune fire disaster. Remote co-ordination started immediately followed by On ground relief operation in 1.5 days. Helped distribute enough clothes & blankets for about 200 citizens affected by it.
- Contributed individually to eleven community volunteering events towards Swachh Survekshan 2018 & organized through Swachh Pune Swachh Bharat alng with PMC & 8 other NGOs a one day event for Swachh Survekshan 2019 that resulted in ~2 Lakh citizens participating in it. Participated in team meetings along with KPMG & with Mohalla committees who were hired by PMC to support program.
- Organized & took ownership for PMC /MPCB - Hadapsar/Phursungi ward on annual E-waste collection drive resulting in 800 Kg of waste disposed in environmentally friendly way. Supported & organized beautification drives with Resident association(KNRA- Kalyaninagar Residents Association) bodies during the program
- Participated in Pune River Front development field survey(Yuva) & covered fourteen societies that feed into government plan around it.
- Volunteered for all 5-day "smART City citizen participation" 2018-19 program right from music festival, street design, doodle workshop to art competitions for school kids
- Lead & organized two month long Kavidipat (Birding Spot) cleanup drive.
- "On ground only" lead for Citibank & its India Partners CSR event in cleaning & beautification of Katraj Zoo , Tree plantation drives across Kharadi, Pune area
- Participated as a Volunteer for Terminally ill Patient affected by Cancer via engagement program
- One day event on Skill development Session for Hadapsar Slum women entrepreneurs
- Celebrated Constitution Day with Urdu minority School, Camp/Pune
Volunteered for NailfreeTree & Bath Pill campaign, Pashan Lake restoration by EFI(Environment Foundation of India), Renovation of a 400 year old temple, Global Goals Drive 2017,2018 by AIESEC , Clean Schools Initiative by Climate Reality Project, three 24 hr non sleep Sewa Marathons
Social Investor & Pune Chapter member of Rangde
Managed socialmedia handles for HCMTR Nagrik Kruti Samiti & English news media communications for SABP - Metro Samiti
Became a One Night Treehugger for Aundh University Road tree felling incident. Being cautious & thereby helped save thirty seven full grown trees. Also participated in an acting workshop for a film making project around the same incident by a famous Marathi director.
Constructed & maintained regularly Checkdams on Guhini Village, Vehle Taluk for past 2 years along with Sinhgad NSS Volunteers.
Participated in Pune's "Worlds biggest sleep out" A Global Sleep Out to Call for an End to Global Homelessness by Will Smith.
Developed free software program for "KALVARIAN"- Fundraiser & Register – using VBA/MS Access for a local Church group(Mumbai)
Participated on short term enagement around saving trees through Aarey & Aravali Bachao(Save Trees) twitter force.
- Organized & executed a 15 days Computer Skill development for Laborer’s kids during evening time
- Wiekfield Open space – Sakore Nagar Cleanup & hawker sensitization program
- WASH program for Elementary school Children at Dhanori, Pune
- "Individual Social Responsibility(ISR) - the Next Generation CSR" - Delivered multiple sessions to Schools, Colleges, Office establishments
- Entrepreneurship Development Cell Series
- Startups , Grassroot Innovation- In a Women's World - St Miras College
- Startups & Opportunities in Internet of Things - Case Study approach - D.Y. Patil College of Engineering
- Sustainable Environment The Next battle - Courts / Conscience ? -Indian Law Society(ILS), Pune delivered to aspiring lawyers of Hariyali ,Environmental Law Cell.
- My City My Responsibility -Sustainibility Intitiatives ,at MCCIA, Pune
- Treaty with Trees - Indian society of Landscape Architects, Shankar Brahme Memorial Lecture
- V-Talk - Opening Session of Being Volunteer Talk Show
- World RISE Summit 2020 & Symulate, E-Summit, Pune
- 2017 iVolunteer Hero National Finalist
- Heroes BigFM
- Swachh Pune Swachh Bharat contribution covered in Forbes Magazine & individually as HatkarPunekar by 94.3 Radio one channel.
- Social work recognitions from - Poona Tamil Sangam & NGO Vishwa Sawali
- Dynamic Leader Award - contribution for Kolhapur floods, Abeda Inamdar Sr college of Arts, Science & commerce, Pune
- Nelda recognition for my work on Environment & Trees.
- Changemaker award by CEO of PTC, Boston, MA.
- World Environment Day - World Environment Day - One is Army, Two is a team, three is always a bonus in Volunteering
- Election Citizen Charter – Maharashtra elections: A push towards better policy and plan .. Citizens Election Manifesto
- Tree Adoption Drive - You too can Adopt
- Man Condenses Tree act for Citizens –Simplicity is the essence of Universality
- We..Need..More..Men..Like..Him. - More Men & Women
YourStory - Social Story
The Logical Indian- Social-responsibility
Empathy,, Managing Ambiguity , Communication Skills
Ethics, Integrity, Partnering & Stakeholder Management
Planning & Organizing, Working in matrix organization.
Taking Initiatives, building relationship with NGOs & intermediaries