Ram Krishna Banerjee
Finance Manager
Ram Krishna has joined NEG-FIRE in November 2023 as Finance Manager. Ram has a career spanning 24 years in the social sector and around 4 years in the Corporate Sector. Ram has studied Science, Business Administration, and Cost and Management Accountancy. He is a certified CSR professional from Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. He has worked in Organizations like Care India, National Foundation For India, Sahapedia, Maulana Azad Educational Trust and Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust.
In this role, he is responsible for the overall supervision of the organizational Finance policies, statutory compliances, operations management and processes.
Ram loves Music, Astrology, Palmistry and knows basic French.
Narayanarao Tiruveedula
Admin & Accounts Officer - South-Eastern region
Narayanarao Tiruveedula joined NEG-FIRE in April 2022 as an Administration and Accounts Officer. His core responsibilities include administration and accounts management of South-Eastern region, (Andhra Pradesh and Odisha). He previously worked with FIND INDIA.
Narayanrao has done his MBA specialisation in Finance from JNTU Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in B.Com from Andhra University.
Narayanrao loves to read books, play cricket.
Manoj Sinha
Admin & Accounts Officer- Bihar
Manoj Sinha brings with him a very rich experience and expertise in as a financial professional. Manoj joined NEG-FIRE as an Admin & Accounts Officer in May 2022. Previously, he worked with DVAS (as chief accountant), PGVS (as Asst accountant cum office in-charge), Sakhi, Madhubani (as a Finance manager).
Manoj is responsible for providing administrative and financial support to the regional team. He carries out all finance and administration related tasks. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Commerce from Shobhit University, Meerut and Arts from Magadh University, Bihar.
Manoj loves listening to retro music. He sings well too.
Mani Kumar Babu M,
Academic & Program Facilitator - South-Eastern region
With 17 years of community development experience, Mani Kumar joined NEG-FIRE in August 2021. His core responsibilities include providing hands on support and assistance to block level field teams, Facilitating the financial capacity building of field teams, ensuring timely implementation of Programmatic activities, Finalizing Field team’s monthly action plans,
Prior joining NEG-FIRE, He led projects implementation in various local and national agencies like APSACS, HLFPPT, and Oxfam India. He is a versatile and seasoned social & community development professional with a strong academic background and multi-functional experience in social advocacy, community mobilization and evaluation studies in socio-economic & educational segments.
Before joining NEG-FIRE, Mani was associated as a Program coordinator in partner with Adivasi Mithra Welfare Society, Hukumpeta, Visakhapatnam district and developed the MTB-MLE academic calendar for pre and primary schools for effective classroom practices and designed TLM and academic matrix for 1st and 2nd classes.
Mani holds a postgraduate degree in Social Work from Andhra University. He likes to travel by bike and. He loves singing, reading and writing too.
Kamlesh
Admin Assistant, New Delhi
Kamlesh Joined NEG-FIRE in Nov 2022. He is responsible for providing the support to the team based out in New Delhi. He also looks after the administrative tasks such inventory management, etc.
Kamlesh is Pursing his Bachelor’s degree (distance learning) in Arts (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur. He loves playing cricket, watching movies and travelling to new places.
Suresh Rao
Executive Director
Suresh Rao is a development professional with over 25 years of experience in the domains of Child Protection, Education and Disaster Response. He has been associated with organizations such as YUVA, CRY, Action Aid, CRS, EDUCO and Tata Power.
He started his career by building and developing a nationwide civil society campaign against child labour during the ‘90s; which culminated in the intensive advocacy around the Right to Education Bill in the 2000s. During the decade starting 2001 he managed various disaster response projects through direct intervention, to address child safety, tracking, emergency helpline, education, etc.; in different disasters such as earthquake, riots, floods and tsunami.
Through leadership positions in agencies such as CRS, Tata Power (CSR) and EDUCO; spanning 2010 -2020, he has been instrumental in developing organizational strategy, including strategies for program development, HRM, NGO partnerships, volunteering, resource mobilization, impact and learning.
After completing 25 years of active and continuous full time assignments, he is on a Sabbatical since January 2020 and has hence been intermittently engaged in providing pro-bono consulting to a couple of initiatives. His most recent social enterprise venture in 2020-21 includes use of disruptive bamboo technology, which can reduce by 90% the use of steel and cement, to build rural micro-infrastructure such as water tanks, poultry sheds, cowsheds, etc. This partnership venture is an aspirational Gandhian gram swaraj initiative.
Arunika Wilson
Documentation Coordinator - Madhya Pradesh
Arunika Wilson has joined NEG-FIRE in September 2022 as a Documentation Coordinator. She is responsible for promoting the mission of NEG-FIRE by communicating our work for greater visibility, branding, among the key stakeholders of the organization.
Arunika has brought work experience of more than 5 years to NEG-FIRE. She has worked with Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action, MILAAN, and Center for Social Equity and Inclusion.
Arunika holds Post Graduation degree in Social Work from the Bhopal School of Social Sciences (BSSS); and has completed professional certification course in NGO Management and Human Rights from BSSS.
She loves content creation, photography, exploring new places and listening to stories of people from real India.
Sharda Yadav
Program Coordinator - Madhya Pradesh
With over 12 years of work experience in the education sector in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, Sharda joined the NEG-FIRE family on 06 October 2022. Her responsibilities include program management, capacity building, and coordination, review providing. Before joining NEG-FIRE, she was working with Kaivalya Education Foundation as a senior program leader. In Room to Read, she worked on school leadership, researched child pedagogy and classroom practices, and designed and facilitated sessions on literacy and literary skills for language teachers. Observed and analyzed classes on literacy modules. Earlier, Sharda started her career with the Samerth Charitable Trust organization and gained experience working in different domains for almost seven years
Sharda Yadav holds Masters's degree in sociology from the University of Vivekanand, Chhattisgarh. She believes in bringing equality in education and believes in providing equal opportunities to the people. Sharda is a good listener.
Lotheti Jyothi
Program Manager - South Eastern Region
Mrs. Lotheti Jyothi has recently taken the charge of the Program Manager of South-Eastern region. In her 16 years long career, she has worked in program planning and implementation for underprivileged and marginalized communities in the domains of education, livelihoods, and health.
Academically, she is a Master in Social Work and also is UGC.Net Qualified
Ms. Jyothi, in addition to being a dedicated development professional, enjoys dancing and singing in her happy times. She enjoys being around plants because they are a constant source of positive energy for her!
She also feels that her life was significantly impacted by education, and she wishes the same for children coming from marginalized communities.
She believes in the value of education as well as the power of change, and she will combine the two in her role as a program manager in the SER region.
Pragya Majumder
Head of Programme Management and Development
Pragya has 17 years of experience in working on various NGOs and INGOs in Programme Management, Development Communications and Fundraising capacities with knowledge base of labour rights, gender equality, inclusion, sustainability, environment and livelihood. She enjoys working in diverse , multi-cultural large teams. She’s an avid reader, writer and traveller.
Baliram Balsaraf
Program Manager - Central Region
A development professional having 20 years of experience in executing and managing development programmes, in various capacities for NGOs in urban and rural areas, Baliram joined NEG-FIRE in May 2016. Prior to joining NEG-FIRE, Baliram worked in Oxfam India, Sampark, CORO in Maharshtra. He also held the position of Program Coordinator at NEG-FIRE from April 2011 till July 2015, and re-joins the NEG-FIRE family.
Baliram holds an (Master of Social Work) degree from University of Mumbai. He likes to travel to new places, trekking, reading, playing badminton and watching movies.
Dinesh Madrosiya
Admin and Finance Officer
An administration and accounts person by profession, Dinesh joined NEG-FIRE in April 2014. He is responsible for all admin and accounts related activities here at NEG-FIRE central region, Bhopal(M.P.). He has previously worked with Madhyanchal Forum supported by CASA wherein he worked closely with government and network organisations.
Dinesh has a Master's degree in Commerce (Management group) from Vikramuniversity Ujjain (M.P.) and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from MakhanlalChaturvedi National University of Journalism Bhopal (M.P.). He loves singing gazals and going for long bike rides.
Jyoti Chandel
Coordinator – Content Development and Training
A development professional with 12 years of experience, Jyoti joined NEG-FIRE in November 2017 and is responsible for managing the Teacher Training programmes and Content Development processes for the central region. She has previously worked with Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Government of Madya Pradesh wherein she was looking after teacher training implementation, training and indication of teachers, preparation of modules, etc. She has also worked for Edumedia India Pvt. Ltd, Rajasthan and as a high school and primary teacher in Gujarat.
Jyoti has a Master’s degree in Education and loves listening to music and reading during her free time.
Moumita Sarkar
Senior Program Coordinator - Odisha
With over 5 years of work experience in the education sector in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, Moumita joined the NEG-FIRE family in May 2018 and will be responsible for program management, capacity building and providing technical assistance to the partners. Before joining NEG-FIRE, she was working with Educate Girls and previously was a ‘Fellow’ at Piramal Foundation of Education Leadership wherein she worked on school leadership, researched on child pedagogy and classroom practices and more.
Moumita has a Masters degree in Literature from University of Burdwan, West Bengal and also in Fine Arts from Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. She comes with a lot of passion for children’s learning and she believes in education as a tool to bring societal change. Moumita is also a trained Kathak dancer.
Raj Kumar
Finance Officer
Raj joined NEG-FIRE in January 2016 and is responsible for daily routine accounting work such as verifying the bills/cash, payments processing, monthly Bank Reconciliation/MIS, Payroll processing, TDS, FCRA, budget working, field accounting/visit etc. Prior to joining NEG-FIRE, Raj has worked with University Research Company India Pvt. Ltd. – Centre for Human Services and Project Concern International.
He has a Master's degree in Finance and a bachelor's degree in Commerce. Raj also loves to read books, play cricket and listen to good music.
Umed Singh
Driver and Logistics Assistant
Umed is one of the most resourceful and trust worthy persons at NEG-FIRE, who ensures safety of staff and guests travelling in the office vehicle. He is the Logistic Assistant & Driver here at NEG-FIRE and has previously worked with Chartered Accountant M. Thomas and Co. A great cook; he makes the best tea when staff is busy in meetings and trainings in order to revitalize them.
Sandeep Mishra
Admin & HR Officer
Sandeep joined NEG-FIRE in August 2016. He is responsible for all Administrative functions such as – office administration and maintenance, travel and accommodation, leave and attendance, event organizing, etc. He has previously worked with WomenPower Connect, Golden Graffiti Pvt. Ltd. and LSK Financial Services in Delhi.
Sandeep has a Bachelor’s degree in Multi-Media and Animation, Arena Animation from M S University, Tamil Nadu and is currently pursuing an MBA degree in HR and Administration from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune. He is a great cricketer and loves watching movies and listening to music.
Vinesh Meshram
Coordinator – Content Development and Training
A development professional with more than 14 years of experience, Vinesh joined NEG-FIRE in December 2017 and is responsible for managing the Teacher Training programmes and Content Development processes for the central region. He was previously working with Pratham Education Foundation wherein he was responsible for content designing (Language and Math) for primary schools; organising and facilitating teachers training with RSK and DIETs in 8 districts in Madhya Pradesh; training Master Trainers’ team of Pratham, and government liaisoning, etc.
Vinesh is currently pursuing his Masters in Social Work and has a diploma in Community Leadership for Education from IGNOU and Certification in Adult Learning and Training Management from TATA Institute and Pratham.
Amitabh Bhushan
Program Manager - Northern Region
With over 20+ years of diverse experience, Amitabh joined NEG-FIRE in January 2018 and will be leading and facilitating the development of Teacher Training modules as well as teacher training prograin Bihar state. He comes with a rich experience in the areas of management and execution of various development projects, capacity building programmes and has worked closely with govt. departments of Bihar etc. during his tenure in organisations such as – PRIA-Bihar, Bihar Voluntary Health Association, TarunSanskar, Jabalpur, MPetc.
Amitabh has completed his Bachelor of Science, from BHU Varanasi, UP and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Development from XISS Ranchi.
Mehjabeen Ansari
Executive Secretary
Mehjabeen ensures smooth functioning of the Executive Director’s office, coordinate and document governance processes; and ensure statutory compliances and documentation related to the Society.
Mehjabeen comes with over 20 years of administrative and secretarial work experience assisting senior-level executives in both corporate and NGO sectors. Before joining NEG-FIRE, she was working with Operation ASHA since 2012 in a similar role. Other organizations that she worked previously are – ABHAS, Gen1Can, Lords Distillery, and The Hope Project Charitable Trust.
She is a Graduate (BA) from Delhi University and has completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Office Management & Secretarial Practice from YWCA-Delhi.
Poonam Verma
Management Information System Coordinator
Poonam is responsible for tracking our projects’ progress through our Web based Management Information Systems (CMIS). She also supports programme team through timely data analysis and report sharing on the emerging trends, enabling in management decisions at various levels.
Poonam comes with over 15 years of work experience in different sectors. Just before joining NEG-FIRE, she was working with CARE India as an Assistant to their Program Operations, Quality Learning (PQOL) department and was responsible for all administrative tasks, and data management support to CARE’s PQOL function. Prior to that, she was with Government of Delhi handling HMIS (Health Management Information System), ASHA, MCTS, CPSMS web portals. She started her career as a Computer Teacher in schools in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Poonam has a Masters degree in Computer Application (MCA); Master of Science & Information Technology (MSC-IT) and PG Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) from Punjab Technical University.
Shailendra Awasthi
Academic Specialist
A development professional with over 14 years of experience in the education sector, Shailendra is a specialist in content development and training. He has worked with pre-primary and primary education programs implemented by Lokmitra (Raebareli, UP), and Care india (Hardoi, UP) and NEG-FIRE, earlier in his career. He comes with a wide experience in Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education content development, training facilitation, program management, and community mobilization.
This is his second stint with NEG-FIRE, he rejoined in October 2018. In his previous stint of 6 and a half years, he had worked as a field officer in Uttar Pradesh.
He holds a Masters degree in Sociology and in his free time, he loves writing poems, reading and traveling to new places.
Vimla Ekka
Office Assistant
Vimla is the showrunner of the organization. She’s the one behind the well-maintained, hygienic and well-organized workplace at the office in Delhi. She has a very smart, caring and warm personality. She also has an impeccable memory when it comes to remembering everyone’s preferred beverages, how they like it and always provides it on time.
She makes sure that everyone has warm food and adequate drinking water at their desks every morning!