Parivaar Bengal Sevavratees doing rigorous field work across dozens of tribal villages in Jharkhand and Jhargram district in West Bengal for assessing neediest cases for admissions in our Bengal campuses. Team led by Partha Naskar, a talented athlete and stage actor to boot.

Parivaar Bengal Sevavratees doing rigorous field work across dozens of tribal villages in Jharkhand and Jhargram district in West Bengal for assessing neediest cases for admissions in our Bengal campuses. Team led by Partha Naskar, a talented athlete and stage actor, serving Parivaar for last 14 years. I remember one of my first experiences of visiting some of these areas 15 years back, trying to assemble villagers for a community meeting, with a fellow Sevavratee and a driver in a Maruti Omni, which felt more like a camel-ride in the jungles, during the heyday of Left Wing Extremism. We had then returned with 4 village elders, sorts of opinion-builders to show them Parivaar and enrol them as our field volunteers and spokesmen in the region. Once our team was kept at hostage at gunpoint by two LWE commanders, though I was not a visitant then. Times have changed since then.