BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President

Setoli Hansda

Mrs. Setoli Hansda the president of the Governing Board is also one of the founding members of Lahanti. Her vision and policy remains one of the biggest factor in organisational set-up of Lahanti. Mrs. Hansda is very curious towards the well-being of children specially the girls in particular. She covers all the major decisions of Lahanti and these are fully affected by her personal nature of visionary approach towards growth of vulnerable ones.

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Secretary

Bitiya Murmu

Mrs. Bitiya Murmu is the founding member cum Secretary of Lahanti. As Secretary, she is the Chief Executive of Lahanti hence she engages herself in all the administrative and legal formalities work of Lahanti. Along the lines she also engages herself in implementation of programs and events as chief functionary of Lahanti. Mrs. Murmu also uses her vast experience in advocacy and liaison work for the organisation and community concerns.

Member

Shanti Soren

Shanti Soren preserves deep concerns about the well-being of women and children. She plays a major role in shaping the decisions of the organization.

Member

Lolisini Murmu

With extended work experience in social development industry on monitoring and evaluation aspects of development projects Mrs. Lolisini Murmu is an important member of the board. Mrs. Murmu holds a key role in determining the road map to the projects, events and decision making processes of the organisation.

Treasurer

Putul Hembrom

Putul Hembrom is the treasurer of Lahanti and extends her support in projects towards educational projects along with duties as a Board member. She is very keen on education of girl child, drop out cases and domestic environment for promotion of education.

Member

Chandmuni Marandi

Mrs. Chandmuni Marandi the member of Board is very dedicated towards betterment of community members specially the tribe population and PVTGs. She provides implementing support to the projects and exerts on-field learning experiences in decision making process of the board.

Member

Regina Tudu

Regina Tudu the member of governing body of Lahanti primarily engages herself in execution of projects and capacity building of human resource. She is an expert of managing women groups and Kitchen Garden operations and maintaining the same for Lahanti through various projects.

our journey

Lahanti was formed as a “trust” on January 24, 2006 under the Indian Trust Act, 1883. The purpose behind Lahanti’s formation is to spread the light of development among the people standing on the last rung of the society and conduct public awareness programs among them in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand. The region is tribal dominated and is still far away from mainstream development. The tribal society is regarded as voiceless and due to this they do not raise demands for their development in an appropriate manner. In addition to that, the tribes in general prefer remoteness and with the status of lagging behind in literacy & awareness, political & social consciousness and the infrastructural setbacks for the larger chunk of this section, the mainstream development remains a far cry. Even deaths from Kalaazar and Malaria in high numbers are still reported from this society, data in NFHS- 5 (2020-21) of Jharkhand suggest that MMR, IMR, NNMR, malnourishment among children and anemia rates among women of this region is poorer than remaining areas of the state and the tribe population contributes the highest for this inferiority.

Looking externally towards the Social Framework of the tribal society, it seems that there are no inequalities and gender discriminations prevailing. But the insights clearly show the inequalities and discriminations within the society in various forms of social practices, myths, misconceptions and ethos. Gender discrimination, Alcoholism, gender based violence, domestic violence, witch hunting and social atrocities for harassment are some common ones.

In lieu of the prevailing issues, some eminent and experienced social working women having deep concerns for the tribes specially women & children, social issues and determination to hit upon the problems to better the lives and living of the community, finally laid the foundation of establishing Lahanti which means “progressive”. The development campaign under the flagship of Lahanti started from Kathikund block of Dumka district in the year 2006.

Lahanti is a team of social engineers engaged in social development activities and pledged to take the society towards progress. Lahanti visualizes to build a society in which women are connected with the mainstream of development and are aware of their rights. Bringing backward societies and individuals into the mainstream of development by strengthening the education, health care, livelihoods, community institutions, systematize the welfare and social schemes, ensuring the Rights & Entitlements of community members especially of women and children.

Today Lahanti is operating in 6 districts of Jharkhand in various sectors like education, Health & Nutrition, Sanitation, Livelihood, Combating Human Trafficking & promoting Safe Migration, Strengthening Local Governance through Gram Sabha, Community awareness programs, Rights & Entitlements, Social welfare schemes, etc. with a priority to focus on women & children.

For the past 16 years the strategy of Lahanti has been to reach the last man standing of the society. Ensuring community participation in planning their development actions, implementation, monitoring and decision making processes. The organization is committed to achieve its vision and objectives.

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Under Indian Trust Act 1882 Registration no. 48/IV/5/2006