Core Team
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Sandeep Sachdeva
Sandeep Sachdeva is an international banker who, after leading large global banking businesses in three continents, retired in his mid-40s to pursue his personal interests. He has since co-founded Safe in India Foundation, his chief passion, and is its current CEO. He is also an active board-member of a number of large social enterprises in the UK and Europe, which he has helped restructure and turn-around/grow. Sandeep is a graduate of IIT Roorkee and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
Ravi Gulati
Ravi Gulati co-founded Manzil – a youth-led non-profit providing a space & learning resources for low-income children & youth. He also facilitates Delhi Government school principals’ leadership learning with SCERT, & enthusiastically mentors many other youth initiatives addressing a diversity of social issues. Not only is all his work pro-bono, but he also contributes financially from his own resources to Manzil and these youth initiatives. He also serves on the Boards of a few NGOs like Pravah that focus on youth learning and leadership. Ravi is a graduate of SRCC and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
Prabhat Agarwal
Prabhat Agarwal is founder and coach at Aravali Scholars wherein deserving students from low-income neighborhoods are mentored and provided academic resources to achieve their potential. Prabhat personally mentors these students in the two centers at Bijwasan, Delhi and Sikanderpur, Gurgaon in India. Prabhat also is a mentor and/or investor in several start-ups, most of which are in the social enterprise space. Prabhat is a graduate of IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
Safe-in-India Injured Worker Support Centre Team
Ms Chitra Khanna : Head- Safety Initiative
Chitra Khanna leads our Accident Prevention Initiative and believes in empowering people to live with dignity. She is an Electrical and Industrial Engineer and has worked in both the corporate and development sector. Her experience spans working with communities, government and multilateral agencies for several years. She is a co-founder of Towards Action And Learning (TAAL), an initiative which works on issues of Governance and Livelihood in Madhya Pradesh.
Masab Shamsi: Head- Worker Assistance Center
Masab leads the Safe-In-India Worker Support Centre in Manesar, to deliver our services. He is supported by a growing team that reaches out to these workers to assist them in obtaining better health-care and compensation from ESIC. He has more than three years of professional experience in Welfare and Development areas and is a graduate of Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.
Datla Hari Varma: Advisor ESIC Initiatives
A senior Management professional having over four decades of experience in leadership roles, initially as a Special Forces Officer in the Indian Army for 22 years and subsequently in the Corporate Sector Logistics, ITES, Manufacturing, and Hospitality Sectors. He is also a Certified Life Coach.
Hari ji advises on and executes a number of ESIC operational and systemic change initiatives for SII.
Amitesh Kumar Singh: Center Coordinator
Amitesh is the Associate Coordinator for Safe-In-India Worker Support Centre. He oversees the office administration and helps injured workers in obtaining ESIC benefits. He brings with him six years of grassroots experience of the social sector, health, and nutrition, especially for the Scheduled caste and tribes. He has also worked in the “Going to School project“, in rural areas of Bihar. He is a post graduate from Nalanda Open University.
Aaroshi Bidhuri
Aaroshi, a graduate in Communications and Extension has earlier worked with IAS officers and the Government of India in the development communications sector. She firmly believes that communication plays a significant role in sustainable development and to reach to the ground levels and work for the people and with the people to make them independent.This belief is key to her work as the Communications officer cum Social media executive at Safe in India Foundation where she leads designing of digital media communication campaigns geared to catalyse change through a process of participation and immersion
Jitender Dabla: Field Executive
Jitender Kumar joined us in Jul17 as our second Outreach Executive. He holds a diploma in Computer Application. Before joining Safe In India, he worked in a manufacturing unit for 4 years and is therefore well versed with the working conditions in small factories. In his current role, he reaches out to the Injured workers and assists them with the ESIC health care and claim management process. He likes writing in Hindi about worker issues.
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Ajay Kumar Chhokra :
Senior Advisor
Ajay Kumar Chhokra is an accomplished leader with over 35 years of experience in prominent US multinational companies like Optum, Adobe, and HP. With a proven track record in both Services and Product organizations across diverse verticals, Ajay has consistently demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and achieved remarkable results. Currently serving as a Senior Advisor at Safe-In-India, Ajay focuses on optimizing operations, devising innovative IT strategies, and fostering partnerships with other NGOs. He holds a graduate from Delhi College of Engineering and a Master's from IIT, Delhi.