Our founding Chairman was Prof. Chitta Ranjan Das, a renowned Freedom Fighter, educational innovator and award-winning writer and translator.
M.Litt. (Oxon), PhD (Utkal). Dip-in-French, Former Professor of English Literature, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. Won the KATHA Translation Award in 1997 and Hutch Crossword Award in 2004, for Indian language fiction translation. He has a large number of translation works to his credit. He edits a literary magazine titled Marg Asia.
Former Director, Academy of Tribal Language and Culture (ALTC) and English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI) and Former Chairman, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). He has been engaged in innovative primers, teachers' training modules, and teachers' training activities.
He has thirty-three years of experience in the field of tribal and rural education and coordinated several education, development and research projects. He innovated education for children of tribal communities and thousands of tribal children benefited from his innovations in the field of education, He was one of the members of the team who developed MLE policy and guidelines for the Government of Odisha At present, he is the Convener, Odisha RTE Forum, an alliance of civil society working for the improvement of education in the state. He is one of the core-committee members of the National RTE Forum.
Professor of Sociology at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. She executed various research projects and several publications to her credit.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
He has been working for the upliftment of tribal and other marginalised communities since 1985. He is the Secretary of VIKASH - a voluntary organisation working in Nuapada and Kalahandi districts of Orissa.
Poet, writer and social activist based in Cuttack, Orissa. He has written scholarly essays and poetry and edited a magazine Parents and Pedagogue. He has also edited Manmohan Choudhury Rachanabali which has been published in 5 volumes.
A noted filmmaker and social activist, whose documentaries and television programmes have brought him recognition in Orissa.
Poet, writer and award-winning translator. He edits a literary magazine titled Nishant.