Our Team

The Advisory Body

Mr. Rangan Datta

IAS (Retd.)

Mr Datta is a very respected and creative person who has contributed many great things to the government departments and to host of nonprofits. Mr. Datta has provided his expertise in various government departments, organizations and foundations led by the Government of India. He has great contributions to the growth of BSWI in many folds for the last two decades. He retired as a Secretary to the Government of India in the position of Senior IAS Officer on Ministry of Rural Development and as the Director General of CAPART (Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology). After his retirement, Mr Datta has worked as an Advisor to the Planning Commission of India; Advisor of the Department of Science & Technology GoI; Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Foundation GoI and many other reputed government organizations.

Dr. Sunil Kr. Santra

Proffessor (Retd.)

Dr Santra is a retired professor of the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswabidyalaya (Agriculture University) of West Bengal that is a renowned and pioneer educational institute of India. His subject has been Agronomy and Plant Technologies. He has been rendering his expertise in agriculture sector of BSWI for more than decade now in the aspects of farmers’ training, staff training, promotion of sustainable agriculture and organic farming.

Dr. Kanchan Bhowmick

Founder & Director, NGO

Dr. Bhowmick is a young man with progressive ideas for agriculture based livelihood development. As a meritorious student, Dr. Bhowmick is an IIT fellow of Kharagpur IIT. He provides project planning and monitoring support to BSWI and helps the organization in decision making and exposure to new technologies in the agriculture sector.

Ms. Aditi Roy

Freelance Consultant

Ms. Aditi is supporting BSWI in the field of making people learn; designing, preparing and delivering training course targeted for adult learners; Creating post curriculum evaluation and feedback forms; Conducting workshops for formulating intervention in the realm of social work development practice; Writing project proposals, log Frame, documentation reports; Conducting creative writing and storytelling workshops for adults and young adults; Imparting leadership training; Facilitating workshops for community organization and development practice; Developing adequate contents and modules for academic research; Preparing teaching learning materials; Conducting training sessions to impart knowledge based training on Rights and entitlements of women, Gender mainstreaming and empowerment, Child rights; Devising training program to facilitate skill development of organizational staff in terms of documentation, communication and interpersonal skills.

Ms. Aditi is very much energetic, enthusiastic and creative in the fields of social development of the rural communities. Ms. Aditi is a Post Graduate in comparative literature from Jadavpur University and completed her Undergraduate Studies in comparative literature from Jadavpur University.

Dr. Rajat Das

Founder & Director, NGO

Dr. Das is a qualified medical doctor with more than four decades involvement in social development sector. He was involved with a world famous development charity and then established his organization ASHA that works in health related programs in many districts of India. He is associated with BSWI as an advisor in its health sector activities. With his support BSWI has made advancement in its functioning in the health sector.

Mr. Saikat Paul

Secretay, NGO

Mr. Paul was associated with PRADAN, a pioneer national level rural development organization. He is also a Fellow of the IIT Kharagpur in Soil & Water Management. A young person with genuine zeal to induce sustainable rural development in the remote rural areas, Mr. Paul has been running an NGO and working closely with the government departments in varied development paradigms. Mr. Paul helps BSWI in devising project proposals and monitoring its activities of the sector. His contributions to BSWI have been outstanding and great and helped BSWI achieve many a great things in the field.