Shashi Ranjan

Founder

Shashi Ranjan is the founding trustee of Pratham Mysore (2002)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Mysuru.

Shashi Ranjan is an Indian social worker and a founder trustee of Pratham Mysore, an education charity working with children in urban slums and rural villages in Karnataka. She founded the organisation in 2002 with her husband, Ashvini Ranjan, who served as its managing trustee until 2019.

Early life and education

Ranjan took a science degree from Bangalore University.

Career

Ranjan was closely involved in Pratham Mysore's community-based projects during the organisation's formative years. She was also associated with Bapuji Children's Home, an orphanage in Mysore, where she was secretary for seventeen years. She directs A.J. Stationery Pvt Ltd and continues to serve on the Pratham Mysore board as a founder trustee.[2]

Pratham Mysore

Established in 2002 as an independently registered society in the Pratham network, Pratham Mysore works with Karnataka's government schools to ensure every child is in school and learning well. Its foundational literacy and numeracy programs, model village initiative, balwadis and vocational training reach children across ten districts; its 'twinning of schools' concept found its way into the National Education Policy 2020.

Pratham Mysore reports the following, on its own site: