Minal Karanwal

Minal is an Assistant Collector and Development Officer in Nandurbar, Maharashtra.  She was Born and brought up in Dehradun.  She studied BA in History and Political Science at St. Stephen’s College Delhi.  She cracked civil services in 2019 with an AIR of 35 and has been awarded as the best officer trainee in IAS professional course.  Minal is a part of a leadership team that has seen great success with the newborns of Nandurbar using Health Spoken Tutorials. 

Dr. Ravindran Kanningat

Dr. Ravindran is the General Manager, Samta Group, Mumbai, and Honorary Vice Consul, Republic of Zimbabwe, Mumbai. He has MCom, MBA, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees. He worked at Cranfield University, and then in Pharma, Biotech, Mining, and Electronics industries in Nepal, UAE, Uganda, Congo, and Zimbabwe. Dr. Ravindran is a part of the leadership team at Samta that rolled out Spoken Tutorial-based IT training to 70,000 students in Palghar and other tribal districts, and also to prisoners, in Maharashtra.

Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is a postgraduate computer teacher at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) Shimla.  He was born and brought up in Sunder Nagar, Mandi, where he studied at JNV.  He studied BA in Mathematics and PGDCA in HP university, MCA at Kurukshetra University, and M.Phil Computer Science at Annamalai University.  He innovatively trained JNV students using Spoken Tutorials and other methods.  He received the President of India National ICT Award in 2015 and the Fulbright Distinguished Award for International Teachers in 2021.  For the work in MOOCs, Flipped Learning, and open source software, Amit will receive the President of India National Award in 2022. 

Nikita Mhatre

Nikita is a Sr. SAP consultant at IBM.  She was born and brought up in Mumbai. She studied polytechnic and then B.E. in IT from Mumbai University.  After a brief stint working in the area of PHP/MySQL, she worked at the Application Software Cell, IIT Bombay, for five years. Her current role is end-to-end implementation and roll-out of HR Modules and Projects. She attributes her success to Spoken Tutorials, motivation and hard work.