Meet Our Team

Smt. Manju Devi is well known personality in the North Bihar, She had a strong struggle and impactful work addressing the issues of fatal flood and water logging on the agricultural land in Saran and Sitamarhi district of Bihar. She had led the movement “Jal jamao virodhee sangharsh samiti” started by youth of Parsa block in Saran district. Being a women she understood the problem villagers especially women and children and always raised their issues on different platforms. She is also the president of Nav Jagriti.

Jitendra Kumar is the secretary of Nav Jagriti, In his initial days he was associated with Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra, Hazaribagh (Jharkhand). During his work realized the hardship life of people, who are trapped in vicious circle of poverty and he decided to come back to his native place laid the foundation of Nav Jagriti in 1993. Saran district had water logging problem as approx. 60% of total cultivable land was submerged in water, which jeopardize the means of livelihood of the people based on agriculture and allied activities. NJ started working on the issues of water logging and motivated people for drainage the canals to remove the water from the sub-merged land and reclaimed the land for agriculture purpose. He promoted the revival of agriculture for local economic development to enhance the agriculture production to meet out the physiological need of people. Later on realized multi-dimensional problems of the people like health, education, gender, flood preparedness & mitigation and children issues and started working on these issues with the help of National and International donors.

Mukesh is a Development professional having Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi. He has twenty-one years of experience in implementing the project related to women empowerment, water and sanitation, livelihood and natural resource management. He has worked with many NGOs, INGOs, and Department of Planning and Development. He had played a key role in the Koshi Rehabilitation Project with Govt of Bihar in 2008. Currently, he has been working as project coordinator in Sitamarhi, Bihar and implementing the project of Stitching Kinderpostzegeles Nederland.

Suman Singh is very dedicated social worker and teacher by his profession. He is currently working as principal in a government school in Saran district. He helps Nav Jagriti in laisoning and networking with government departments. Suman always mentor Nav Jagriti’s project team for proper implementation of education and skill development programs.

Mrs. Vaijanti Devi Vaijaynati Devi is a committed social worker; she has been associated with Nav Jagriti since its inception. Problems with women, children and old age people are her core interest area.

Smt. Meena Kumari Srivastava Meena Kumari Srivastava is a teacher by profession; she wants to dedicate her life for the quality education of girl’s children. Meena also run a coaching centre at her home and provides free education to children from the marginalized community. She mentors project team for proper functioning non formal education centre.

Reyakat Hussain Mr. Reykat Hussain holds Master degree in history from J.P university, Saran. Reyakat is a mentor, educator and working in the social sector from last 10 years. Before joining the sector he used to provide free education to the rural children. He started his career in government health departments as block mobilization officer but he left the government job and join the board of Nav Jagriti in 2006.