Who We Are
PANI works at the grassroots to empower the community with special focus on women, adolescent girls, farmers, and the most vulnerable and marginalized population enabling them to grow and prosper through awareness, learning, and by taking control of their own life situation.
People’s Action for National Integration – PANI is a social development organization currently working relentlessly in underdeveloped regions of northern states of India with focus in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. It was founded in the year 1986 by a group of Gandhian social activists under the visionary leadership of Paras Bhai – a prominent and devoted Gandhian activist. The Gandhian philosophy of rural reconstruction and nation building by keeping people’s actions in center was the key guiding principle behind the establishment of the organization. PANI was formally registered in 1989 as a not-for-profit entity under Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860. Its objective is to bring positive and sustainable change in lives of communities living in abject poverty and undue inequality. The organization has directly reached out to more than 2.5 million households in the last three decades through various program interventions.
- 1986-1990: Foundation period
- 1991-1995: Learning and institutional growth period
- 1996-2000: Scale-up of programs and themes
- 2001-2010: Scaling-up geographic outreach, perspective building, enhancement in visibility, and partnering with other grass-root level organizations
- 2011-2015: Strengthening the thematic expertise
- 2016-2021: Organizational transformation
- 2021-2026: Revamping systems, processes, and policies to match the operational Scale and growth of PANI
Head office of the organization is in Faizabad, Ayodhya, 130 Km from state capital Lucknow. ‘PANI’ has a smaller satellite office in Lucknow for liaising and policy advocacy at the state level on issues that emerge from the grassroots where community level interventions are underway. ‘PANI’ has facilitated the establishment of a network of grassroot level civil society organizations called Supporting Association for Thematic and Holistic Initiative-Uttar Pradesh (SATHI-UP). It has 413 member organizations from 40 districts of Uttar Pradesh. ‘PANI’ also runs a Community Training Centre located in Bhiti block of district Ambedkaranagar. It has infrastructural capacity to provide residential training to 50 persons. This center mainly provides trainings to Community Based Organization (CBO) representatives, frontline government functionaries and staff members of various projects. ‘PANI’ is well connected and associated with relevant state, national and international level networks/alliances/associations to contribute the development process from its grass-root level experiences and thematic expertise.
PANI is a professionally managed and legally compliant organization, with Board approved standardized HR, finance, and program management systems and functions. PANI has 522 frontline workers and 310 fulltime employees. There is a ten-member Core Management Group (CMG) to manage the Organization, which reports to the Chief Functionary and the Board.
Our Board Members
List of Executive Committee (Governing Board) Members
[Elected on 19th May 2019]
Mr. Bharat Bhushan
Secretary (Chief Functionary)
Address: Village/ PO.- Chachikpur , BlockBhiti, District- Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh
Mrs Neelam Prabhat
Chairperson
Address: 120, Laxmanpuri, (Near Formative Day School), Indira Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Sanjay Bhatt
Vice Chairperson
Address: principal Bainglow, 3 University Road, Delhi School Of Socal Work, malika Ganj, New Delhi 110007
Mrs. Leelawati
Member
Address: Village- Rohanpara ,PO.- Balapaikauli, Block- Bhiti, Distt. Ambedkarnagar,U.P.
Mr. Shivendra Mani
Member
Address: Village- Semari, Post Office - Kodari, District - Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Core Management Group
The Core Management Group (CMG) is comprised of the heads of all verticals to provide strategic direction to the Organization. As part of its responsibility to monitor each project, and provide feedback and support where required, the CMG meets every month for review meetings with the project teams.
Bharat Bhushan
Secretary & Chief Functionary
Shashi Bhushan
Head - Networking
Deo Datt Singh
Director (Operations)
Jagdish Giri
Head (Programs)
Shashank K Gupta
Head (IT & Admin)
Pathani Behera
Head (Finance & Legal)
Vinay Sharma
Head - Human Resources
Anoop Kumar
Project Manager (Program Team)
