SHIKSHA
TEAM

Harish Manwani
Partnerships / Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand LSI
Harish leads Partnerships & Operations for North India at Udhyam Shiksha. He is currently involved in implementing the Udhyam Shiksha program with Industrial Training Institutes of the Governments of Haryana and Punjab as well as the Education Department at the Government of Uttarakhand.

Payal Agrawal
Curriculum
Payal co-leads the curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha. She is currently working towards standardizing Shiksha's curriculum frameworks and defining the overarching Shiksha learning principles to streamline the design efforts.

Manasi Joshi
Delhi LSI
Manasi is a Program Owner - Large Scale Interventions and is currently working on implementing the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum with the Delhi government for students of grades 9th to 12th.

Rachna Jangra
Haryana LSI
Rachna is a Program Owner in Haryana at Udhyam Shiksha. She is currently working to train the Employability Skills Instructors at the Industrial Training Institutes of Haryana who will be facilitating entrepreneurial skills to students. She will also be supporting the Industrial Training Institutes in Punjab going forward.

Akshay Midha
Partnerships / Maharastra, Nagaland LSI
Akshay leads Partnerships at Udhyam Shiksha. He partners with various players in the educational eco-system in Udhyam's journey of reaching young learners. He enjoys co-creating solutions with people to maximise impact.

Avani Mevada
Curriculum
Avani is a Curriculum & Training designer at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently working on developing Entrepreneurial Mindset Curriculum in Maharashtra.

Nezrin
Partnerships / Kerala, Andhra Pradesh
Nezrin leads Udhyam Shiksha's partnerships and operations for Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. Involving implementation of Shiksha program in Industrial Training Department of Government of Kerala, and Education Department of Government of Andhra Pradesh. She also trains the teachers on Shiksha program delivery to students.

Shaagun Puri
Curriculum
Shaagun works with the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha to enable curriculum creation and facilitation on different Large Scale Intervention projects. She is currently working with the Industrial Training Institutes in Karnataka with the aim to make learning entrepreneurial mindsets exciting with innovative curriculum and facilitation.

Tushar Uchil
Curriculum
Tushar is a Curriculum Designer at Udhyam Shiksha and is working on Large Scale Interventions in Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh. He also facilitates sessions for audiences, enabling them to understand their true potential.

Neha Rupda
Curriculum
Neha works in the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently working to developing Entrepreneurial Mindset with the Uttarakhand State Government.

Gauri Parate
Curriculum
Gauri works in the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha as a curriculum designer for multiple large scale interventions.

Kushal
Curriculum
Kushal works in the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha as a curriculum specialist for various programs.

Archana Vishwanath
QSL - Innovative Products funDoo SPOC
Archana is a Generalist in the Quality and Scale Lab at Udhyam Shiksha, and is currently working on the chat based program to inculcate 21st century skills, funDoo.

Arunima Chandra
M&E
Arunima works with the Monitoring and Evaluation team at Udhyam Shiksha to explore ways in which data can be used to continually evolve programs at Udhyam Shiksha.

Tony D'souza
QSL - Innovative Products
Tony is a Research Consultant with the Quality and Scale Lab at Udhyam Shiksha, and is currently involved in research and co-designing & executing experiments with young learners.

Adrija Roy
M&E
Adrija works as a Core Team Member, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Shiksha team

Vineesh Amin
Design Communication
Vineesh leads visual communications and design interventions for programs across Udhyam.

Bhavisha Wala
Incubation Specialist
Bhavisha works as an Incubation Specialist at Udhyam. She is passionate about working with young entrepreneurs and help them succeed.

Priyanka Mehra
Consultant - funDoo
Priyanka is a part of the tech team at funDoo in Udhyam Shiksha. She works as a create the chat flow in rapidPro and she also help test all the flows.

Srimoyee Das
Curriculum Specialist, funDoo
As a part of the curriculum team at funDoo in Udhyam, Srimoyee is involved in designing curriculum, developing skill mapped learning experiences for users, and analysing impact of the content in funDoo .

Vinila
Consultant - funDoo
Vinila is a part of the design team at funDoo in Udhyam Shiksha. She works as a UX designer and is involved in creating processes and features for the different users in funDoo

Santoshi
Consultant, funDoo
Santoshi is a part of tech team at funDoo in Udhyam Shiksha. She works closely with the funDoo content team to help create the chat flows in RapidPro.

Rinu Varghese
Consultant - Kerala
Rinu is working as a consultant with Udhyam Shiksha’s Kerala team. He is engaged in the large scale implementation of Shiksha projects in Kerala.

Shyam Suryanarayanan
Lead, Udhyam Shiksha
Shyam leads the Shiksha program at Udhyam. Hebelieves in the power of 'education' to 'liberate' student potential in an empathetic and compassionate manner. At Udhyam he is motivated by the possibility of enabling this human transformation at scale.

Diptee Deka
Delhi LSI
Diptee designs and implements Youth Engagement Program at Udhyam Shiksha for alumni students in Delhi as well as works on developing the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum with the Delhi government for students of grades 9th to 12th as part of Large Scale Interventions.

Sahaj Parikh
Delhi LSI
Sahaj works to design & implement the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum with the Delhi Government. He is currently developing new products and projects that leverage technology, and provide personalised support and mentorship to students.

Mitali Verma
Haryana LSI
Mitali is leading the Entrepreneurship Program in Haryana at Udhyam Shiksha and supports it with the Department of Skill Development and Industrial Training in Haryana as part of the Large Scale Interventions.

Mukesh Kumar
Haryana LSI
Mukesh is working as consultant with the implementation team at Udhyam Shiksha on employability skill and entrepreneurship program for ITIs in Haryana and Punjab.

Hemlata M Tiwari
Maharashtra LSI
Hemlata is a Program Manager - Large Scale Interventions at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently working to ensure successful implementation, training and facilitation at the Industrial Training Institutes in Maharashtra.

Suhail Kundil
Kerala LSI
Suhail is a Consultant at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently managing program and operations with the Entrepreneurial Mindset program in Kerala as part of Large Scale Interventions

Vaibhav Mishra
QSL - Innovative Products
Vaibhav works with the Quality and Scale Lab team at Udhyam Shiksha , he is currently involved in research and co-designing Products & executing experiments with young learners.

Shikha Bohra
Curriculum
Shikha is a member of the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently involved in projects in Kerala and Uttarakhand

Samir Kumar
Curriculum
Samir works with the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha and is executing the Entrepreneurial Mindset program in Punjab.

Arpit Jain
Curriculum
Arpit works in the Curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha and is currently working to developing Entrepreneurial Mindset with the Uttarakhand State Government.

Annesha Banerjee
Curriculum
Annesha works with the curriculum team at Udhyam Shiksha as a curriculum specialist for large scale intervention projects. She is currently developing a tech product that provides individualized career mentorship to high school students.

Archita Jain
QSL - Innovative Products funDoo SPOC
Archita leads the Quality and Scale Lab at Udhyam Shiksha, focussed on designing and executing experiments to generate learning, evidence and create a shared knowledge base to eventually convert successful experiements in to products with an intent to make learning entrepreneurial mindsets easy and accessible.

Shweta
QSL - Innovative Products
Shweta works as a user research consultant with Quality and Scale Lab at Udhyam Shiksha, she is currently working on funDoo.

Srishti Gulati
M&E
Srishti leads the Monitoring & Evaluation team at Udhyam Shiksha. She works to enable data driven decisions and learning across all projects and programs for Shiksha.

Neena Jain
M&E
Neena works as a Core Team Member on the Shiksha Monitoring and Evaluation Team, currently exploring ways to deepen our understanding of program impact over time.

Rituparna Das
Step Up Club
Rituparna is currently Designing & Implementing interventions that aim to generate revenue for Udhyam Shiksha, to make our interventions more self-sustainable.

Prathyusha Kokku
Branding and Marketing
Prathyusha leads brand and marketing for Udhyam Shiksha as well as for Udhyam Learning Foundation.

Ishu Agarwal
Curriculum Specialist - funDoo
Ishu is part of the curriculum team at funDoo. She writes the conversation based tasks for Whatsapp, designs the learning experience for the user and is involved in analysing the impact of content in funDoo.

Purva Barot
Product Consultant , funDoo
Purva is part of product team at funDoo in Udhyam Siksha. She works in buidling processes and features that are user centric in funDoo.

Vijaya
Consultant - funDoo
Vijaya is the Program Coordinator at funDoo in Udhyam Siksha, She Coordinates with all the teams involved to enable the funDoo tasks to completion. Also involved in hiring, contracts, translations, invoicing.

Shrusshti
Consultant, funDoo
Shrusshti is a part of the design team at funDoo. She is a Visual Designer and is engaged with designing creatives and visual content for the tasks and activities in funDoo.

Anjali James K
Consultant- Kerala
Anjali is working as a Consultant with Udhyam Shiksha team in Kerala and is currently involved in operations and management in large scale implementation of Udhyam Shiksha projects in Kerala.
