Apeejay India Volunteer Awards

Cherukuri Indira Dasgupta
Architect, urban planner and housing expert
Indira Dasgupta serves on the Board of Directors of International Association for Volunteer Efforts (IAVE), the lead international organisation to promote and showcase the spirit of volunteering. She is also the Executive Director of PIDT (Peoples Institute for Development and Training), which has worked towards developing a holistic intervention strategy and has an exemplary role in civil society action in rural North India amongst the marginalised for the last 3 decades.

She has been instrumental in organizing the IAVE Asia Pacific Conference in 2001 and the IAVE World Volunteer Conferences in 2006 in close association with the UNV, bringing together diverse stakeholders in volunteering from 58 countries. An architect, urban planner and housing expert Indira has been working as a social change interventionist. She is a member of a number of issue based network organisations in India, working at the grassroots on issues of water, forests, food security, women, youth, education, folk culture, housing primarily volunteering to motivate collective action for sustainable change.

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