Akash Badave is a professional working at Barclays, Pune and has done his MSc. Biology and B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS-Pilani. Being associated with Nirmaan since 2007, he has played roles at various levels in the organization, right from heading rural entrepreneurship wing and employment operations of Nirmaan-Pilani to presiding over the chapter initiating and guiding various projects. He attributes a great deal of learning to this journey in Nirmaan which taught him lessons about problems and realities at grass-roots level, dynamics of social change, organizational management and leadership.  Employing these lessons in his current responsibility, he aims at catalyzing an overall community development through trust building, greater participation and local leadership development in the communities where Nirmaan operates.  On a personal note, Akash is deeply interested in sustainable technologies and social entrepreneurship. He likes to challenge himself exploring remote areas and facing extremes. He has traversed tribal forests of Jharkhand and Gujrat on foot; spent days with Adivasi families in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra learning about sustainable living of Adivasis.  Besides, he is an avid nature lover, a music maniac and a skilled Tabla player.  

Manoj Papisetty, an undergraduate in Computer Science from BITS Goa, has been a part of Nirmaan since the past three years. He is a Sports fanatic and enjoys listening to music and reading blogs. In his free time, he works as a freelance Software and Web developer.

He credits his expertise at handling projects and analysis of Organization Behavior largely to being a part of Nirmaan. As the Vice President of the Nirmaan Goa Chapter, he contributed magnificently towards bringing Cultural and Structural changes in the system. He strongly believes that -"For an Organization to prosper, a proper system and culture should be in place. As Nirmaanites, each one of us should take the responsibility of developing a strong culture at the Organization!" His current role as AD, People-Process-Culture includes realizing this belief of his to reality.

Varun is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and is now working as a research analyst for a consulting firm. He was one of the 25 social leaders selected by National Social Entrepreneurship Forum and he is also associated with Teach for India

Varun has been associated with Nirmaan for the past 4 years and has significantly contributed to the organizations livelihoods initiatives and played a key role in building a strong team at Nirmaan-Pilani.  As the Project Coordinator of Self Help groups, he facilitated the rural women in opening a stitching centre and also helped them in marketing their products. As the Vice-president of Nirmaan-pilani, Varun has initiated new projects in villages and also developed key partnerships with various NGO’s. Being a part of Nirmaan, he has identified the immense potential in villages and learned how to tap that. As the Fundraising director, Varun intends to grab each and every opportunity and make sure that funds are never going to be a hindrance to Nirmaan’s progress 

Kunjan Gandhi, a 4th Year undergraduate student at BITS Pilani (Goa), has his interests and achievements scattered into a diverse spectrum- from being a Tata JagritiYatra Alumnus, to being in love with Physics; from being engrosed into Electronics and Electrical to having this great passion for learning new languages and playing Foolball! In the same fashion, his contributions to Nirmaan in the past three years have also been diverse. As a project coordinator of SAP at Nirmaan Goa, he led transformation of two Government-Run Schools into Model Schools by upgrading their Infrastructural Facilities. During his tenure as the President, he played a pivotal role in building an strongand organized Team at Nirmaan Goa. His contributions led to building of strong ties with various organizations like NABARD Bank, NCUI and Father Agnel’s Ashram and Zuari Industries Limited; which helped accelerate the women entrepreneurship program and promote hygienic living in communities in Sancole region of Goa.  Being a part of Nimraan, he has learnt a lot about the top down and bottom up approaches to solving social problems and has realized that the world is in dire need of executors than planners. He aspires to use technology as aiding tool for societal development. He firmly believes that good leadership skills, the attitude of problem solving and being able to build a strong culture are three most important virtues of a social change maker. 

He is undergraduate in BE(Hons.) Computer Science from BITS-Pilani. Currently doing a six month internship in a analyst company. Doing something for the society has always inspired him and he is always ready to take up the challenge. Recently he worked on a project which aims at ’Cluster formation among Innovative Primary Teachers’ in IIM-Ahmedabad. 

He has been working with Nirmaan since 2009. The journey with Nirmaan began with Gyan-Bodh where evening tuition classes for students are conducted. The project aims at providing better opportunities to nearby students in terms of academics, sports etc and help them decide their field of interest. While working in Nirmaan he learnt a lot of things like time management, team leading, professionalism etc. Nirmaan has always provided an opportunity to work in the field anyone wants and he has utilized it to the best. In his present responsibility he wants to implement similar idea of ‘Cluster Formation’ and come up with modules which contain innovative teaching methods for primary school students.

Vinila is a Final year student of Msc Economics and BE Electronics and Instrumentation from BITS-PILANI.

She has been a part of NIRMAAN since 2008. With a dream of developed India and passion for women empowerment, she played her role in motivating a number of rural women in Pilani and providing them the necessary support from NIRMAAN to be women entrepreneurs. She feels that NIRMAAN is a platform to learn and discuss the problems prevalent in the society and find solutions for each. She credits her managerial skills and out of box thinking capabilities to NIRMAAN. Presently as an Associate Director of Livelihood initiatives, she aims at reaching more number of women and finding and implementing more effective ways of women empowerment.

Her interests include entrepreneurship and finance. She is a music lover and is passionate about singing and dancing.

Rakesh is the Associate Director of Livelihood Initiatives of Nirmaan Organisation. He is presently pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bits Pilani. He is interested in entrepreneurship and management.

He is an active volunteer of Nirmaan from the first year of his college and has been working with Nirmaan from the past three years. With his passion for rural development he joined as a volunteer for Self Help Groups and showed significant contribution for the project. He worked as the head of Publicity Team for Nirmaan and played a key role in publicizing and creating social awareness among the people. As the Coordinator of Nirmaan for Oasis 2010 (Cultural Fest of Bits Pilani), he organised a stall to sell the products made by rural women and made significant amount of profits. He was also successful in creating awareness among the students by organising events namely Big Fight, Head On and Posterama (Events during the cultural fest). He feels that Nirmaan gave him an opportunity to contribute for the betterment of society and he credits it for his managerial and soft skills.

As an Associate Director for Livelihood Initiatives he hopes to introduce effective methods which would help in women empowerment.

Prakriteesh is currently in his fourth year pursuing B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and Msc in Physics from BITS-Pilani Goa Campus. He has been working for Nirmaan since 2008, and had been the lead for Tech-Cell in Nirmaan Goa. During his years in Nirmaan he has worked through employment and technology projects, and is interested in project planning for community development . It has been an enriching and enlightening opportunity for him to be a part of the organization, and to gain insights into working of communities, NGOs, entrepreneurships working towards social uplift.

Currently as associate director for Technology for Grassroots, he is working towards nurturing relationships between academia and technological stakeholders/organizations functioning in areas of sustainable development, as a means to ensure involvement of students in this process.

Sruthi is pursuing M.Sc.Biological Sciences and B.E. Computer Science at BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus, with a passion for Computer Engineering. She has been an active participant in various activities on campus, from being a basketball player in the college team to leading the Design Team of the Bits Annual Magazine-2010. She is associated with Nirmaan since 2008 where she began with being a member of The Cleanliness and Awareness Team at the Goa Chapter. While her tenure as HR-Head at Nirmaan Goa she played a key role in establishing Nirmaan as a brand on campus and building motivated volunteer base for the chapter. Her contributions were significant in terms of efficient decision making and critical analysis upon several issues in the organization. She also organized events like Joyfest and Spree Marathon on a grand scale on behalf of Nirmaan-Goa. She was also a part of modeling an adult literacy operation - “Prerna” at a slum called Zari.

Now, as the Associate Director, PPC she aims at bringing uniformity throughout the organization in terms of culture and practices, the best of their kind. Also assuring every NIRMAANITE a happy environment and fulfilling experience of true NIRMAANISM.

Anil Thontepu, a final year undergraduate student at BITS-Pilani owing to his passion in social entrepreneurship is interning with Goonj, an N.G.O based in Delhi. He was amongst the 25 young leaders who were awarded NSEF Author of Change for the year 2010 by National Social Entrepreneurship Forum.

He has been associated with NIRMAAN since 2007 August and has played prominent roles in building up the brand of the organization by his strong networking skills. His work in Nirmaan has been mainly about conducting successful events which provided potential platform for the organization to portray its effective impact in the sector. Working with Nirmaan has shifted his childhood love for entrepreneurship to social entrepreneurship.

As the Associate Director, Fund Raising he intends to create a proper setup for the organization which could give a crystal clear picture of the specific requirement of the projects so that each of them could be addressed accordingly.

Shanthi Swaroop is in his final year studying computer science at BITS Pilani. He’s been associated with Nirmaan for past 3 years and considers it as the only worthwhile thing he’s done in college. He has worked across various projects in Nirmaan and made a significant contribution to them. He strongly believes “You should be the change you want to see” and Nirmaan is helping him the most, as a platform in achieving that dream. On a personal note, he’s highly passionate about Indian Politics and he hopes the ground realities, he learned working in Nirmaan will help him solve the developmental problems on a larger scale as a politician in the future. His other interests include blogging, travelling, photography and entrepreneurship.

In his present role as the Associate Director of Fund Raising, he intends to make sure that no project will have lack of funds as a hindrance in its planning or execution.

Chandolu Sravya is presently a final year student of M.Sc.(Tech)Information systems at BITS-Pilani. Being a part of the Developed India has always been her dream. In the journey of achieving this dream, she joined Nirmaan in 2008. She started as a Volunteer for Inter Connectivity of Schools project and learnt that competition is what makes every individual grow and prosper. Carrying this lesson forward, she joined the Human Resources team to make her fellow volunteers competent enough to make the organization grow and prosper. She led the Human Resources team where she formalized the documentation and instilled the bigger picture of Nirmaan in the minds of the volunteers. She discovered traits like time management, professionalism in her while working at Nirmaan. With Nirmaan as a platform, she would like to see herself as a Social Entrepreneur.

Currently as an Associate Director for Public Relations, Branding and Networking, she is looking forward to design appropriate branding policies for the organization and establish contacts with the fellow NGOs' for collaborations and media houses for support and publicity.

Sindhura is currently pursuing M.Sc. (Tech.) Information Systems from BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus. She has been working for Nirmaan since 2008. She had been a part of Cleanliness and Health Awareness Operations for the first two years when she helped identify strategic locations in the nearby slum for the first phase of Cleanliness Project and also helped organize Blood Donations Camps. She had been the lead for Public Relations and Employment Operations for a year during which she led two teams, one which successfully handled print and digital media, and the other which successfully worked for the establishment of a sustainable self help group. Being a part of Nirmaan, she gained experience in dealing with issues concerning to Community Development and Women Empowerment.

Currently as an Associate Director for Public Relations, she is working to establish an NGO network for Nirmaan that facilitates interaction between experts in different areas and promotes the sharing of ideas and information. Also, exploring techniques to enable Nirmaan to increase institutional capacities.

Trishool is a senior undergraduate pursuing M.Sc(Hons.)Economics with B.E(Hons.)Computer Science at BITS-Pilani. He joined Nirmaan in August'08. Since his inception, he has been holding diversified responsibilities and presently is the Associate Director for Finance and Administration vertical of Nirmaan.

He believed in the very fact that the Youth of our country is the driving force for change in the present society. With this ideology,he started off as a volunteer at Rural Employment Incubator where he contributed to the upliftment of the unemployed youth in rural villages around pilani. He held the responsibility of a Treasurer in his third year. During his tenure as a treasurer, he improved the financial structure of Nirmaan at Pilani. He also played the role of a Apogee Coordinator, where he coordinated events like India Quiz and Dhiti. He strongly believes that while working at Nirmaan, he could polish his managerial, entrepreneurial and communication skills.

As an associate director of Finance and Administration, he is looking forward to formalize the financial structure of Nirmaan and to eliminate the loopholes at administrative level.