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Arjun Shekhar

Arjun Shekhar

Founder

Founder of Pravah · ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

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Arjun Shekhar is the founder of Pravah (1992)[1] and ComMutiny - The Youth Collective (2008)[2], Indian non-profits working on education and livelihood from New Delhi.

Pravah

Pravah is a youth-development nonprofit operating across 15-plus Indian states that builds young people's leadership capacities to drive social change. Its programmes span adolescent life-skills development, youth civic engagement, early-stage social-entrepreneur support through its Changelooms programme, and capacity building for partner organisations, reporting reach to over 500,000 young people.

Pravah reports the following, on its own site:

  • PrayaSapna curriculum run across 1,860 NYKS teen clubs, impacting 35,000 adolescents across 5 states (with UNFPA)

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective (CYC) was registered as a trust in 2008, formed jointly by Pravah and Sir Ratan Tata Trust to bring together development organisations and educational institutions working with young people. It functions as a community of practice for youth-work organisations across India, aiming to develop self-aware, proactive young citizens it calls 'Jagriks'. In 2019 it established the cross-sectoral vartaLeap coalition, partnering with development organisations, government bodies, media, corporations and UN agencies to mainstream youth-centric development.

ComMutiny - The Youth Collective reports the following, on its own site:

  • ComMutiny - The Youth Collective's ecosystem in 2024-25 comprised 2,240+ members and 154 partner organisations across 19 states, coordinated through vartaLeap
Organisations
2
Based in
New Delhi
Founded
1992, 2008
Press
3

References

  1. [1] “Arjun Shekhar Founder , President of Pravah Board” — Pravah. Source
  2. [2] “Arjun Shekhar, a prominent figure in the vartaLeap Coalition, stands as a co-founder of Pravah and ComMutiny - The Youth Collective, alongside being the visionary founder of Vyaktitva, a distinguished performance support consulting firm.” — ComMutiny - The Youth Collective. Source

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