Board

Ajaya Mohapatra – Managing Director

Ajaya is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Justrojgar India Pvt. Ltd. a for-profit company was incorporated in 2009. Ajaya co-founded justrojgar.com, the brand owned by Justrojgar India Pvt. Ltd. Since inception of the Company, Ajaya has steered the skill development initiatives. In his leadership, the company has trained and placed over 2000 candidates as at March 2013. He raised fund over Rs.4.5 million from corporates like Vedanta Group, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd., JSL Stainless Limited and International Agency viz. American India Foundation in the last 2 years.

Prior to staring We The People (NGO), Ajaya worked with Bhartiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST)–CII, WWF-India, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC-IC), PRIA, PHD Rural Development Foundation (PHD Chamber of Commerce) and CASA spanning over 20 years in the development sector. He was a member of the State Steering Committee on Panchayati Raj, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India.

As a professional trainer, Ajaya has trained more than 10,000 elected representatives of Panchayats, government functionaries, corporate sector and NGOs in India. He has demonstrated experience in the field of micro-entrepreneurship, livelihoods and micro-finance, skills development, policy advocacy, strategic planning and management, and networking. He is authored to several development sector books, manuals and articles published in the magazines of national and international repute.

To  his  credit,  he  steered key innovation  projects  including Mentor  Online Training (MOL) for micro-entrepreneurship development on behalf of BYST supported by International Finance Corporation (IFC). He launched Pre-Election Voter’s Awareness Campaign (PEVAC) for Panchayats at PRIA in 2000 in Rajasthan that becomes a national level campaign  adopted by many  state governments with the identical acronym viz. PEVAC. For this contribution, he was awarded Visiting Fellowship by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

He holds a Post Graduate degree in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social Services (XISS), Ranchi and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Jyotirmayee Lenka – Director

Jyoti has over twenty five years of experience in the development sector. She has been working with We The People since January 2006 and with Justrojgar since its inception in June 2009. She is spearheading the microfinance operations since 2007 including MIS. Bedsides, Jyoti has been looking after the HR and skill development programmes. She is the one of the founding members of Justrojgar and has been the pillar of support and source of inspiration during the critical times of the company. Prior to joining Justrojgar, she has actively contributed in the growth and expansion of We The People. Jyoti worked with NGOs viz. ASRA and associated with Samaj Seva Parishad.