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Creative Talks: Connecting Thought Leaders for Viksit Bharat 2047
On March 25, 2025, Reach Lives had the honour of hosting an insightful event at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. The event brought together distinguished thought leaders, policymakers, and changemakers to discuss the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 and the path ahead.
The event was graced by esteemed Guest of Honors:
- Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste (Former Union Minister & Honourable Member of Parliament, Mandla, Madhya Pradesh)
- Shri Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi (Honourable Member of Parliament, Kandhal, Odisha)
- Shri Mahesh Kashyap (Honourable Member of Parliament, Bastar, Chhattisgarh)
- Dr. Subhranshu Sekhar Acharya (Chairman cum Managing Director, NSIC, Govt. of India)
- Shri Nune Balraj (Central BJP Coordinator, TS & Saral National In charge, BJP HQ)
- Shri Sachin Kumar (CMD, Rise Infraventures Ltd & Samidha Welfare Foundation)
- Dr Arjun Prasad Bastola (Samita Shastri from Nepal)
- Dr. Tapas Ranjan Panda (National President, Reach Lives & President, Odisha Chamber of Commerce)
The Reach Lives has developed many and diverse pioneering programs in various areas in India with integrating faith and development, strengthening grassroots for self-sustenance, liberating from shackles of discrimination in overcoming challenges while working towards the goal making a positive impact in the lives of people and society. Working to enhance and advancing the professional growth and development of the members and volunteers with imparting practical skills in addressing significant need-centred social issues, to create and maintain professional standards and promoting the positive growth and development of both our professional community and to advance sound social policies and governance.
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Women are human beings who have equal claim to the universal declaration of human rights No doubt the empowerment of women is Nation’s empowerment, in the process women to take decisions of their own, provide fair laws and rights without gender bias. To ensure women are empowered, freedom is guaranteed under the constitution to plays important roles to enable their women welfare in various sectors with support to training and employment programme scheme, jobs, opportunities for entrepreneurship, increased safety and security, ease in day-to-day living, and protection of the girl child, gender sensitization, check domestic violence, female literacy with education schemes, and enabling women to leverage technology and awareness generation. In short, the road to women’s empowerment has several factors joining the dot in its path to make women socially and economically empowered so that they can take an equal and active part in national development along with men.
- Elevate viable opportunities in the self-employment and self-help groups to achieve the goal.
- Analyzes women entrepreneurship and the contribution of women entrepreneurial endeavours.
- Empowering women aims to inspire and persuade them to transpire from different adverse conditions.
- Mobilize schemes, initiatives, programs and activities undertaken by the government for women.
- Facilitate distinguished services for the cause of women who are vulnerable and marginalized.
Free Education Empowering Future
Audacious to dream for a better tomorrow, building a movement to eliminate educational inequity in India, providing free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a fundamental right. Free schooling subsequently ending the cycle of child labour and creating a sustainable empowering future generation. With this sheer determination, people as dedicated volunteer teaching staff have bestowed support to the selflessness of providing free education with infrastructure. Along with academics engaging children to participate in the social and cultural life of the communities that assures children from all social backgrounds have equal opportunity to have their voices heard in any public domain as they grow up to responsible citizens.
- With technology help, children adapt and thrive to cover topics from classroom education.
- Empower students to seek to use their knowledge and ambitions to become a young changemaker.
- Working to improve the accessibility and quality of education with a special focus on the girl child.
- Student-led initiative implements to support programs in primary, secondary and higher education.
- Activewith children and youth through collaborations on government initiative for free education.
Children In Foster Care
Many things in life are not by choice. To give a normal childhood to destitute, orphans and children whose parents couldn’t take care of them, to provide them with the homelike love and care environment at the orphanage and give the child a better childhood. For abandoned children without family, a measurable, systematic method ensures that children are loved, educated, healthy and safe until they transition to a permanent family, as their biggest dream is to be part of a loving family, it’s where they thrive. Actively collaborate with a government agency, non-profits organisations and local family, strengthening to transform systems and give children a voice at the orphanage.
- Collaborative and community-based approach effort to reunite the children with their birth family.
- Support living expenses of children in a shelter home with the private-public partnership.
- Provide formal education, nutrition, health and protective service.
- Empowering the foster child to reach full potential to transform opportunity for a brighter future.
- Provide training to the ground team to educate and prevent the child from entering the system
Healthcare on Wheels
A community health initiative dedicated to improving access to free or affordable healthcare in rural and under-served communities. With mobile health care unit, integrated healthcare service is managed and operated by a plethora of certified health practitioners volunteer from a wide variety of medical specialization, putting forth the healthcare sector to empower people in rural India. Working from scratch to bring about a difference in the lives of underprivileged families, rural communities and slum dwellers. Since lack the health education to be aware of diseases and healthcare, they do not approach hospitals for checkups out of risking a day’s wages, nor the easy access to the primary medical facility in the rural area. With the two-fold approach to tackling this problem, quality healthcare services were made within easy reach of the needy, followed by promoting healthcare awareness and encourage the underprivileged to seek medical and health care.
- Making it approaching the unreached through mobile medical units compatible with healthcare needs in the area.
- Strengthening mobile infrastructure outreach services availability of primary healthcare facilities.
- Facilitate emergency response vehicles and ambulances for reproductive and child health services.
- Engaging public-private collaboration with governance policy attention to meet the growing demand.
- Transform by empowering people to become digital active healthcare citizens with a life choice.
Social illuminating Rural Development
Existence to the dedication to combat the mitigation of sparseness and upliftment of the impoverished. To engage in sustainable development techniques to empower the local rural communities. Concentrating on non-formal adult education and diversify activities in the fields of women and child development, children’s education, health and nutrition, low-cost water and sanitation, care and rehabilitation of the elderly, disaster relief and rehabilitation, public health and hygiene education and organic farming and irrigation. Strive to develop youngsters who will become empowered leaders of their communities, thus working towards the vision of a transformed and prosperous rural India.
- A unique holistic approach to quality education through innovative programs and methodology.
- Constant endeavour to inculcate into young minds a civic sense and social responsibility.
- Providing empowerment with modern technology to enhance the productivity of the agricultural sector.
- Development of alternate occupation by vocational training for facilitating effective delivery.
- Strengthening rural governance to enhance the responsiveness, accountability and transparency.
My Talks – Inspiring the Nation
“My Talks” is a powerful platform where Dr. Tapas Ranjan Panda, as a visionary leader and National President of Reach Lives, shares insights on nation-building, education, empowerment, leadership, and social transformation. Through these talks, he inspires individuals to embrace self-development, contribute to society, and uphold the spirit of ‘Nation First’.