 So, hi, good evening, everyone. I am glad to welcome you this evening, morning, different places that you're based in. I'm so happy to have all of us joining in together. It's quite a overwhelming moment for all of us. And absolutely, even for me when as we celebrate the third anniversary of Rukh, to begin with, I have some thoughts that I'd like to share. This journey has been quite overwhelming, interesting, scary, pretty much every emotion that we can count out there for all of us, especially for us who took this journey started with it. I remember my last day at the fellowship, and I decided that, yes, I'm not going to continue doing something else, but actually start something on my own. I think the idea was brewing in my head for almost a few months. I remember almost, I think I did a lot of research for around six months in terms of what should I do next. Coming from a startup background, and then getting into an employment was not very easy for me. And I've been meaning to get back into the pond again. And I think there's one moment I remember when we were traveling, getting one of our visits to a village near Pune, and Radha Ma'am was traveling with us. I got a chance to hop into her bus, and she offered me a seat next to her. And I think that it was curated for us to get into that moment and have that discussion because we discussed so many things. And this one quote while I was telling her that what should we be doing? So back then, Prasunjit Me and Kaushik, one of our fellow fellows of the Swajparath Fellowship were thinking of starting a sanitation enterprise. And I was discussing the idea with her, and she told me, Abhijeet, if you start a company, the world will probably get one entrepreneur. But if you start doing something in the consulting side of things, probably the world will have hundreds more like you. And I think that was a defining moment for building groups, actually. And immediately my next thoughts were, like, let me get back to my mentors who stood by me all these years. And that's when I approached Ramasar, Kamlesar, Vijay Panjikasab and Jayarupa, Pratapab. And all of them, like, I think there was never an, like, I think they never felt to say no, I think they rather sprung up with more ideas on how could we build this? And I think that was something that really motivated me to have the backing of such individuals into building something. It definitely proved in a certain way that, yes, that what I was thinking, trying to build was worth, if it was worth these people's times, it would definitely be worth in the long run. And I could not imagine a much better team than some of my closest friends like within a year, some of them that we'd met. So Suraj, Charudad, we met during the fellowship, Prashant who I knew since college and all of us, we just came together with this core idea. And I think everyone was on sync on what we were building. And it was quite amazing. And I think from that moment, and obviously we committed a lot of mistakes along the way. There was a lot of course correction that happened. And I'm glad to have, again, people like Ramasar, Kamle Sir, J.I. Rupal who've been there to kick my ideas if I may use that term, that, hey, Aviji, you need to focus on what's happening and not just sway away with whatever comes, whatever whims come to your mind. I think that was the biggest value addition I believe that I could get from this team. And obviously execution hands that made it possible. And along the way, we started building a team. We had, I think, one of our early folks, Sonam Komal joined us around December and they've been with us ever since. And it's an amazing validation. And over those years, we've had over, I think, 60, 70 people come and go out and some stayed with us in this journey. It's been a hard time. And I think definitely this has been my longest part. I've been lucky enough in certain ways to have a venture run for three years full-time with whatever interruptions I have in between. But I think we've survived this. I think in the startup world, as we say, that we've crossed the valley of death. We've completed, we've survived the first thousand days and it has been nothing less than an adventure. With that, I thank all of you who are part of this today and have helped us grow. Moving forward, I would like to share a quick story as I told you. So we, 6th June was when we took our first step into building Brooks full-time. We legally registered as a non-profit sectioned company on November 12th, 2018. Since then we've done over 15 projects, small and big, with over 100 partners. And we've achieved almost a 10x growth from our initial days. And we have a team spanning over 20 cities. And I'm glad to say that we, at a certain point in time, we were operating out of three countries, which I never had imagined we would be able to. And this has, I think, and we will definitely grow more. Very recently also we did our first international collaboration with Hatch Sri Lanka. And I think this year we will officially start keeping food in more countries in South Asia. And I think that's been the goal since the beginning. The next steps I would walk you through different initiatives that we've done in brief. And I would like the team to step up and share their achievements with us. Starting with the operations, Krasnji has been a rock in terms of building the operations team and sustaining it and actually freeing my mind so that I could focus on other things. And I would like to call him up and help us walk through what we've been doing so far. Krasnji, do you want to say anything? Hi, it's been a very, it's been a rollercoaster to be honest. We've had our highs and lows. We've interacted with a lot of stakeholders, government, private, public. We've tried to leverage our network. We've tried to build much more cohesion in the ecosystem. And I think that's something which is ingrained in all of us, every single group's team member, that we always look at the larger picture. And that keeps us motivated and our hopes and our motivation level very high. So, yes. I think Sonam wanted to take this. Yes. Am I audible? Yes. Okay. So, first of all, many congratulations for the third year anniversary of Brookes through all of us. So, PMU by Yojna is a flagship scheme of Ministry of Skill of Development and Entrepreneurship. It started in December 2019 and has been extended till March 2022. So, this program is active in 10 states in India and Brookes is the implementation partner for the Maharashtra State. The objective is to create an inepilic ecosystem for the entrepreneurship development through the entrepreneurship education and training and providing easy access to entrepreneurship network to the students and beneficiaries. Next slide, please. The scheme, this scheme has four objectives. First is entrepreneurship awareness and mobilization. Next is entrepreneurship education. Third is mentoring, hand-holding and fourth is events and awards. So, we have covered till now the first three objectives. Entrepreneurship awareness program is to create awareness about entrepreneurship as a career for the students. During EAP, we have reached 34 institutes and we have impacted or oriented 4787 students. The second objective was is entrepreneurship education training. In this, we have provided entrepreneurship education within the skilling ecosystem. We have trained the institute's faculty and they have provided training to their students. After lockdown, we have provided online EDB training to all the institutes. We have trained around 1469 students on both online and offline platforms. Third objective is providing hand-holding and mentoring support to potential and existing entrepreneurs through entrepreneurship hubs. We have conducted four awareness camps and fixed counseling camps till date. We have mentored two entrepreneurs from rural area. Till May 2021, we have 100 plus new business ideas. We have 90 plus business registered on Udyog Aadhar. Many businesses are still active in this pandemic. We are helping our beneficiaries in registration of their businesses on online platforms as well through WhatsApp business accounts, Facebook business pages, Insta pages and digital showroom account. Many of them, some of them are using Khattabook for digital accounting of their businesses. Objective four is to create opportunities and platforms through events and awards and recognition. We have received an extension for this program and we intend to help all the beneficiaries in scaling their businesses. So that's all about PMUV, the same thing you can add if I miss something. So I think Sonam has summed it up from a business standpoint and from a government stakeholder standpoint. What we're also doing is going one step further in this pandemic-intested time. We are reaching out to our beneficiaries, understanding what pain points are they facing on a personal and a professional level. We are trying to understand what we can do once the pandemic situation gets closed and we are able to actually meet them physically. And that's what we're doing apart from the government-managed program. Next step to the Misfits Initiative and I would like to call the star of the show, Anupam, to care a little bit about Misfits. Thank you so much. Hi, beautiful people, hope you all are doing well. And yes, we are so grateful that we got this chance to make a difference, the chance to make an impact, social impact specifically. And we are so grateful for Misfits Initiative and all that it has done till now. As like, let me just give you a quick recap of all these things. So it all started with a pitch event and giving you quickly the quick recap of Misfits 2020. So we started off in around July with the aim to find the most impactful change makers from South Asia. So Misfits was an online pitch event that happened across 20 regions of South Asia and it was focused towards providing a state to social impact change makers, be it startups, nonprofits or innovators, you know, who are building solutions that can improve the quality of life in their particular regions. And then during Misfits 2020 event, that pitch event, around 13 exports joined us and shared their insights on entrepreneurship and social impact. We call that impact talks. And then we had exceptional jury members and with their help, we got our top 13 Misfits and our top three Misfits. So this is, you know, quick gist about the impact created during Misfits 2020. Now, referring through the slides, we covered 20 regions, we got connected with 90 plus partners, that's a huge thing for us. We got our top 30, we got 200 plus applicants and then social media reach, as you can see on the screen as well. So this was 80% organic and around 20%, it was, you know, the paid marketing thing. So we are so grateful that we were able to create such kind of impact. So yes, as I said, it all started with a pitch event and now Misfits is a community because of the impact it created. Because, you know, the moment you inject information, education and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build and uplift itself. So, so did we with Misfits. And yes, now we have been doing learning workshops. Please change the slides. Yeah, so now in the Misfits community, we have been doing learning workshops, panel discussions, talk shows and networking events. Yeah, since the last week of January, 2021, we are glad that we have successfully completed eight global events and three regional events and many more to come. So we have done this in different regions with different partners. We also run a live 30 minute talk show by the name of K.M. Misfits on Instagram. We have covered 15 episodes till now, kudos to us. And now we will be moving this live talk show on Clubhouse most probably in some time. So the, and also the impact report of Misfits 2020 is ready, is also ready to rock on and to share the amazing insights and impact to everyone out there that we have created. And yes, big news is that we are coming up with Misfits 2.0 very soon, sometime in July or August. We have started the marketing. So like we'll let you know soon about it. And like with the ending, I would say, let's celebrate the Misfits, the crazy ones, the troublemakers, the doers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. And yes, they are not fond of rules. So yeah, that's it from my side. Thank you so much guys. Thank you Anupam. You're always bringing energy to the room. Talking about the next steps of technology, something that we started experimenting with. I think that this has always been a weak spot for us, but we have persisted and we have overcome in that. A couple of things that we tried doing, I think the first step was actually trying to build a mentoring platform. This was sometime around 2019 and 2020, which didn't go as expected. And we spent about six months and the help of fire interns and British to start this but sadly it didn't move the needle. But to be a very glad to share that we finally came up with a tech product called Ekathra, which was in response to the pandemic situation to whatever the PMU our team has been facing in terms of reaching to students who did not have access to smartphones or the internet. And it has so far at least at an operational level worked spectacularly well. And we are, we've recently restarted our development efforts on that front and we'll have the beta access up in the next week's time. We have Shantanu to lead the development efforts and he's supported by three more team members. The next step about marketing us as a brand, I think the brand of Rooks has become synonymous to entrepreneurship and has grown, especially in the last year a lot, while these numbers are still fairly low than what we expect, but we've seen a very high engagement with on pretty much all our channels. The report shares the last 30 days activity on our social media channels and which has been quite good. And we have an amazing team which is managing it and ensuring that we grow in the digital world as well. Beyond that, we did a few activities previously to ensure that people hear and know about us. One of which has been a partnership with Autodesk Fusion 360 India, wherein we hosted a massive event called Future of Manufacturing and Product Design in Nakhpur, July 2019. Also, the team was involved in managing the launch of Fusion 360 Academy in India in February 2020. And we've had an amazing partnership built with the Fusion 360 team and continue to do so, especially for our skills initiative, which is still finding its roots and we are sure that we'll have someone help us in terms of growing that now. This next was the Nakhpur Incubator Forum, which was started as a part of the GIZ's MSME program and wherein we got together all the incubation centers in Nakhpur together and held a bunch of meetings for them to upskill. And get actively collaborated with each other. The next and the most long-standing engagement we've had was with the Smart India hackathon. And over the years, it has been a nationwide initiative and our team has been contributing in multiple ways, not by evaluating the hundreds of applications that this hackathon receives and along with that, we've participated as mentors. I've been presented as SIH, as a mobile officer at NIT Trichy and last year as a vigilance officer for their online hackathon. Beyond this, we've done a bunch of outreach initiatives. These have been guest talks or general positions at multiple colleges and competitions. As a talent, I believe we are a growing family and we have been constantly looking out for some amazing folks to join us at the team. We've had about 60 people join us and leave and some of them stayed with us. We have a family of actively 40 people that are in and out of our different initiatives and the current team is growing and we look forward to have more people join us in the next few months and years to come. In terms of finances, I believe Suraj is missing but I'll let Komal take this over. Thank you, Abhijeet. Congratulations, Rukhs, for completing three years of successful journey. Suraj is the finance director in Rukhs. He couldn't join us and he's out of network and missing this anniversary meeting. We started our journey in 2018 from scratch. We have been growing successively from the past three financial years and it is a great success for any organization to have sustainable financial growth for continuity of business. Growth figures are shown as a year. We did multiple small scale projects and we had a kickstart growth in financial year, 1920. As we were in a growing stage, we did multiple new mandatory expenses that brought us to a losses but we did not stop and came up with a new initiative that's Misfits. The PMU and Misfits played a major role in the financial growth during the pandemic situation in financial year 2021. And now we aim to have two times growth in the current financial year through our upcoming initiatives. That's all from my sides over to Abhijeet. Thank you very much, Komal. And I'd like to also share that as a non-profit, I think these are phenomenal numbers for all of us. We started with a little capital that some of us infused in it and just for us to stay afloat but we focused on creating revenue first rather than going around and scouting for finances or grants or donations. I think we stayed firm in our beliefs that we had to first prove what we can achieve and then go out and ask people to pull out checks from their pockets. And I think the last three years have been nothing but phenomenal and magical in terms of ensuring all our efforts even in the financial terms have proven to give us returns and we have sustainably grown in the last three years. And these numbers are not small for an organization like us. And definitely I think we are here to grow this beyond every financial trouble or any pandemic that possibly will hit us. And I think our biggest growth actually happened during the pandemic which is nothing but a blessing in disguise for us. And I think this has been a wonderful, wonderful last three years. And I think the numbers here speak like everything that we've been doing so far. I think the numbers speak best in terms of growth. Talking about the next steps that we aim to achieve as an organization, we put together a sales plan one of the key things that we try to do we're trying to do is start a program called step one which is going to be an entrepreneurship course for students aspiring entrepreneurs and colleague career professionals. This is aimed to reach the tier two, three and four entrepreneurs. And we aim to reach about 10,000 learners in the current financial year. We also experimented with consulting services and have Suraj and Komal leading that with us with a few set of interns that recently joined us and we ensure, we'll ensure that we reach the target of 2,000 businesses by this year. And about the funding process we are waiting the approval of the 12 A&TG post which we can start officially our CSR fundraising process and we're targeting to raise about 50 lakhs for different initiatives that we have mentioned previously. The MISWITS 2021 will also be driving some sorts of revenue for us through sponsorships and memberships to drive community building. We are aiming for a 15 lakh amount in these sponsorships and about 500 members in this financial year. Step one course, I would like Sonam or Uncom to talk a little bit more about this. The changes will take a little bit more time. All right, so thanks for the nomination. So step one program is aimed for aspiring entrepreneurs. We intend to have this as the basic course in a series of courses planned for the over the next six to seven months. The intention is to cover the basic tenets of our principles to help one understand the requirements to structure out and build a business. We will be using Ekathra as a tool to disseminate all the information and content to all the learners. The content will consist of videos, audios, question and answers, live, live interactions with experts from the community to dispel any queries that they may have. At the end of the 10 day course, they will be given a certificate of appreciation and a certificate about the program. We also intend to provide mentorship and guidance services to some of the leading businesses which come out from this program, which means that we want to extend our hand and hand hold these new age entrepreneurs and to help them make their business successful. Thanks. Thank you, Prasimjit. And before I close, I would really like to thank all of you for joining us in today. And this has been nothing less than a joy ride. All of us had amazing times. We definitely do have some announcements as we shared, so I will share my screen again and show you briefly an upcoming website. Sadly, we were hoping to share this, start doing like launch it today itself, but we did some operational snag and which is why at least a part of it is definitely ready, but we want to ensure that all of it is completely out there before we take it forward. And there you go. This is going to be the refreshed website of Ruch and some of our team members have been spending days and nights to start to build this. And I'm glad to have all of you see the first look of this and we'll have a lot more to be added in the upcoming few days and open it up for the world to reach us. We've been having a very good open rate on our website and a lot of people come and visit us and seek information about the organization and I think the current website wasn't doing a lot of justice to that and we definitely have a new flavor building around. That's about it. I hope all of you are joining us and open the floor for some experience sharing and I would like to put our guest Amitabh here on the spot to share his experiences with us. Thanks Abhijeet. So I think it's been an amazing and wonderful journey since I've interacted with you in the last two and a half years I think two and a half years is when we've been known to Abhijeet. So I believe that in two and a half years whenever I speak to you, what's happening? So there's something new cropped up and he's like, I've just come up with this idea whenever I visit Danakpur, then over cafes, over chats he's like, how can we do this? How can we solve this? Thinking new things, last year they launched Misfits and suddenly like, what is happening? Then you realize, okay, phenomenal platform and a short span they've put in together and then every day there's a breeze of say, post on social media, oh, this is moving so far this is moving so well and when I was part of those panels later on, okay, this is something that he has spread and they have built those partnership built those entire networks needed to lead this kind of initiative actually. So you really need some zeal, some passion to drive this in this even this time of COVID actually. So I think it's phenomenal and I truly believe in what to do with you then. As the name goes, Bhraksh in Hindi, it's called the Paired or the Tree. So there are many trees in India but I think he, I truly believe in that Bhraksh called Banyan Tree which grows and which has that sub route which comes down which is very stable, which has a life of many, many years actually. So very one of the very, in Indian methodology it's very sacred tree we have in India. So I truly wish that that Bhraksh grows in that manner and I wish all the best to Abhijeet Abhinav and the entire team presently can call to take it to the next level actually. So congratulations once again from my side to you guys and wish you all the best for the future. Thank you very much for those words. I think it was a surprise I think for all of us. Like if you had asked me, you would have said, hell no, it's too much effort but I think Rahul took up that charge of building this initiative. I think we did all the heavy lifting that was required and actually took it to the goal post. I think he's the star behind making or starting Misfits as it is and definitely it got us introduced one of them who has been leading it on the front now with all her witty comments and social media posts and amazing events that she manages. But yeah, I think we definitely uncovered a major gap in the social impact ecosystem through Misfits and I believe that as an organization we have taken up on ourselves to fill up that gap and definitely with partners like you out there supporting us, we are sure that we'll take it to a much, much larger tree as you say. And I think that's been the reason behind why we named the organization as Rukh that yes, we want to grow that like that banyan tree which shoots out groups in all directions and it actually reminded me of this conversation we were having on Flubhouse the other day and a lot of folks who joined in and as I was giving introductions, I thought that okay, like 80% of people in that room were associated with us at some point in time who are either leading organizations somewhere else have started startups or doing some wonderful work for the ecosystem out there. So I think we've already started like as a giving out those fruits and building, sharing our seeds out there for the world to benefit from it. So thank you very much again. We also have Madhura who's joined the Rukh family very recently as a partner and has helped us in the PMU Ayosina. Madhura, I would like to put you on the spot here and you share some thoughts with us. Hi, thank you Amidit. First of all, I would like to congratulate the entire Rukh team on the operation of three years. I'm sure it's been a phenomenal journey starting from the scratch in this. So it's a great achievement to all of you. When I worked on every Rukh in the month of Jan and I would like to play song like all over yours in production through Rukh was given to me by Dr. Mejha Fonserter. And I wasn't knowing what exactly was Rukh all about how we are going to go forward. I still remember the days in the month of Jan and I saw an email at one o'clock at night saying that we have to organize a PM by AM. And I was like, I'm a surprise. What is it all about? I wasn't really aware of Rukh in the members who are part of it. And I said, sure, let's go ahead. Let's take it forward. And as I was going through the profile of the Rukh I aimed at all the youngsters in. So as a youth, why not? I know for a while he was there for all, whatever help was left from our side. That's how we got in with the Rukh in. My first dialogue was with Abhijit and then it worked forward with the same Rukh and then I aimed at Rukh. That's how the journey began. And you would be surprised. It doesn't seem to me like we haven't known each other just for the past five months. It seems like we all have been together somewhere in the journey or the other. Maybe like we have worked together prior or maybe we were like, we were in college or so. And that's how we have reunited again in the year 2020 months. So that gave me a very powerful feeling to connect with Rukh. So I'm really grateful to Dr. Mejha Funtar as the founder of Eastern and an AM of Rukh for letting us to be part of our journey and as well as to be a part of your three-year celebration. PM by Navey, we did our training recently. That was our two trainings under the banner of Madhan Manthi Yorjana. It was a great learning experience for all of us as a part of the organization. What exactly it was, what else for knowledge we would provide to our beneficiaries if one has to undergo any eye-opener for business ventures or any eye-opener for start-up heads or the beneficiaries whom we worked closely in Mumbai. That was an eye-opener for them as well. Coming from the background of MBA is a different sort of a feeling, right? Getting into it, I would learn from that in Rukh's case. The way they have ordinarily arrived from day one has talked to you all of you guys. So as I said, it's not just the end, it's just the start of us to come together and take it forward as a different organization coming into it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Madhan, for those words. And I think it's been the same for us. Definitely, I think I haven't had the pleasure to work alongside you a lot. But definitely, all the good things that I hear from my team have been amazing. And I think pretty much it's been the same that it doesn't feel that we've known each other for such a small time. But I think there's a lot of work that we have to do going forward. And I think your support with all of us has been invaluable and will continue to trouble you in the future as well. So thank you very much for your words again. I would also like to put Rilana on the spot now. Rilana, it's been, I think, it's just been you and me who interacted over the past few months. I think it's about 20 weeks, if I'm not wrong. And I mean, we wouldn't have really been where we are with Iqaptara as a business if we didn't have you as a mentor in the journey. I'm truly grateful for all the effort that you've put in. And I think being the, I think, as I told you, I needed that stick on my head every week to get work done. And you've been super helpful in doing that. I'm really patient in that effort. Would you like to share something with us? Sure, thank you so much, Abhijit. First of all, thank you so much for your words of gratitude. Having been assigned to you as well on a personal level has been a great learning journey for me as well. The best way to learn something is to teach it. And my purpose really in life is really to share as much of my experiences and my support and my knowledge to others so that they can grow and succeed. And so when I see young folks, the next generation of leaders coming through the ranks such as yourself, Abhijit, I feel great and I feel better for my children that they will be living in a world that's better. And so I am so inspired today, having seen what Vruch has accomplished in building an important ecosystem which is in the social entrepreneurship space. I believe that entrepreneurs of today and the next generation such as yourselves really need to focus on understanding what the role of business should be which is more than just creating profit. It's also about creating social change. And so when I see this, I am really, really encouraged. And I know Abhijit you and I have had many conversations and I believe that you're such a talented leader and you have such a vision and you're such a great strategic thinking all the time thinking ahead. And I believe truly that you will continue to accomplish great things with your team. And so I'm so, so inspired by everything that you've done so far with Iqacha, I think Iqacha is gonna take off. You are really with Iqacha solving a problem, a very, very specific social problem that has been created by COVID-19. And as you know, COVID will not be eradicated fully if the entire world doesn't come, doesn't level the playing field in respects to vaccines and so forth. And so I believe that all of the problems that have been created by the pandemic will still remain. And so Iqacha is still going to be a really very, very relevant product and very, very important in the future. And not only that, it's also a product that will help level the playing field as well in other areas such as education as we've talked about and as well in conflict zones which will our problems and unfortunately that will always remain in the world. And so I am really, really truly inspired by that. And Abhijit as well, you're such a visionary in a way that you think you're able to really zoom out and I am so inspired by your leadership. And for Rukh, I actually didn't know what that word meant. So I'm so glad that I heard what it is, the banyan tree. And so that is amazing. I really truly believe that you will be making a huge impact in this world by creating this ecosystem. Entrepreneurship is so important for not only empowerment, economic empowerment, but it really creates, enables people to take their futures into their hands. And this is what we need in this world because there's so much happening out there where there are so many people out there that remain marginalized. Unfortunately, we still live in this world. And so entrepreneurship really is a way of leveling the playing field in that way. And so I am a firm believer in entrepreneurship and I really, really am even more of a firm believer in social entrepreneurship. And I am just so inspired by everything that you've been doing. So congratulations to the team. I really, just my advice would be as a, as someone who's worked in this space is just keep doing what you're doing. Really learn about your key strengths as a team and really leverage those strengths. Don't try too much to focus on, oh, what do we have to improve? I think sometimes we are too hard on ourselves sometimes. I think what we need to do really is really focus on your strengths, keep building on that. And it sounds like that's what you've been doing. And it's amazing how resilient you have been as well. Look at failures as lessons learned and just move on and just build on that. So congratulations to everybody. And I'm a resource here, if anybody needs anything, please reach out to me. I'll be happy to provide any kind of support if I can. So congratulations. Thank you, thank you very much, Rana. I think those words mean a lot for all of us and definitely your support has been invaluable. I can't really thank you enough for all the hard work you've really put. I think all the good things that you said about me, I think there's a lot of credit that goes to the team that stands firmly behind me. Mentors like you who supported me and helped me learn over the years and really helped me become the entrepreneur, the leader that I am today. So I definitely cannot take the credit as an individual, but I think it's a collective effort from all of us. With that, we have a very dear friend, Amrita who's also joined us after I think a bunch of technical challenges. And I think Amrita and I, we met at one of these community building events in Mumbai and I think we just hit it off there. And we've always been talking about how could we collaborate and how could we do things. And I think sometime last year or I think 2019 is when we caught up in Bombay and there I think we just probably shook hands and said, let's do something together with Rukh. And she's been a very active support in multiple initiatives that we've done, especially with Misfits and now with PNU through Raha. Amrita, putting you out there on the spot and thanking you for all your support. Hi, hi Abhijeet, hi everyone. Thank you so much. I think it's congratulations to you and everyone in Rukh to have really come to this very significant milestone of three years because I've known your journey for a while and I've seen, I think when I think of the word entrepreneurship, I definitely think of you Abhijeet and your vision. So that also goes to say how much you live this world and how much of an impact you're trying to create at the grassroots with this vision which is so needed for the country. And I'm sorry, I joined in late but I must, maybe these are things which have been covered but I think one of the things I've always taken away with our interactions or with the work that I've seen of Rukhsh is the attitude with which you'll look at failures. I mean, there's, there is no failure in your dictionary. There's nothing which is impossible in your dictionary. And you'll do it with a lot of humility and you'll do it with a lot of conviction. And so a lot of respect for all of you to do that because to do the kind of work in, to create a social change that the magnitude of which you'll are constantly doing things. It's amazing. And yeah, I think one of the things I always wonder and I've said this to you many times, I just love how you're like full of ideas and the team is constantly churning off like in the middle of something very, very hectic in terms of a project. And in the middle of that, I will hear this team is already working on some other things. So, you know, you guys are just amazing with the way you all do the execution of your ideas. You'll just don't leave the ideas there, you know? So you'll have a long, long future ahead with I'm sure a lot of milestones waiting for you. So I won't take much time, but all the very best and you'll always have my support. And I think one of the things which you guys have done amazingly well is one of the efforts of Misfits which I have seen last year working with you guys. And I really wish you guys now a lot more global visibility with the kind of work you all are doing because one is, and I think that is my wish for you on your third birthday, that you all take this grassroots impact and connect it with even more global impact because you all really know how to facilitate that. So wish you all the very best and you will always have my support. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Amrita. I think it's been the entire team that has been supportive of taking these ideas to the next level. I think with every time we hire someone and we share them, like we have their onboarding, we share our deck with them, the story, the idea behind Rooksh and give them an experience of what they are getting into. But one thing, one statement that we've always held very close to our heart and tell everyone is it's not about ideas, but about making those ideas happen. And I think that's been the cornerstone of building Rooksh that we don't talk, I think I've learned that from my mistakes in my previous ventures as well as not just talking, but actually delivering and letting the world talk about it. And I think that's something that we've successfully been able to deliver for the past three years. And I think one of the key things behind Rooksh also has been it has, like as an entrepreneur, I'm always excited about new ideas, about doing new things, different things. And previously it has always kept me limited because I started with one idea and whenever I wanted to do something else, it would be out of the scope of that specific venture. But I think with Rooksh, even personally as an entrepreneur, it has given me that big room to really test and experiment the different ideas, play around with it, see if it works and if it does and if it works into the larger picture of what we imagine, it definitely, we can just fly with it. And that's why I've been blessed with such amazing team members out there that they've taken these ideas and just flown with it to the next level. Absolutely. I have seen it and I consistently see that. So very happy for all of you and wish you all the very best. Absolutely. And I see Rahul has also joined in. So I just messaged you on that window. But before we have a chat with him, we have a very interesting person with us. Sonam, would you please introduce? Tushar, hi everyone. Tushar is our beneficiary from the Global ITI Institute. He had a business idea, but he hasn't started yet. So Tushar, tell us your experience and tell us about your business idea. Tushar? Yes, hello. I'm Tushar. And my experience with the Rook Shiko system was very good. First of all, I had no idea how to start up a business plan. When Rook Shiko system came to our college and we had an interaction with it. And when they told us everything step by step, we came to know about the business idea. How do we make a business plan? How do we execute it? How do we collect the data and so on. And that was my business plan. My business plan was water tank cleaning services. There are about five to six machines. And we do water tank cleaning in a systematic way. This is a modern and optimized way of doing tank cleaning and effective. We have a lot of people who are microbes or whatever. We are very conscious about the Ketanu. So our cleaning service solution cleans everything completely. It's a very modern and effective way. Thank you. Thank you, Tushar. So Tushar is one of the names under those numbers that Sonam shared under the PMUI urinais. One of those hundred entrepreneurs that came out as a result of taking these entrepreneurship sessions. And I think Tushar shared with us that he comes from this town called Kamti, which is about 50 kilometers from Nagpur city. And we went, I think Nishant was the person who went there and took sessions. And we've got some amazing entrepreneurs that came out of that institute. And I think it's been, even with the pandemic in place, students like Tushar have been able to start to think about actually building a business students who never thought that they or never heard about the world of entrepreneurship, got to know about entrepreneurship, learned about it, and in a very short amount of time, they've started taking the next steps on their ideas. Some already have their businesses and players, I mean, good money for their families. And I think that's the attestation. And I think that was the core idea behind what we wanted to do with Tushar. We really built that ecosystem where entrepreneurs like him can come up and really explore all the possibilities that they have. So on that note, I guess if Nishant is there or I'm not sure if he dropped off, he was there a few minutes back. But OK, no worries. That was a lot of insight from a lot of folks who've been involved with us. I would now like to call in the team to share some experiences. And I think, Virish, why don't you start? Hey, my experience with Rukh has been really amazing in the last quarter of the last year. But that was the time when we were actually keep passing a lot of things on tech we have been building. And we still are. We are adding in newer and newer products to our portfolio as well. But then the last quarter was the one wherein we were actually working our asses off to get one of the products out. One kudos to Rukh Shores that we were able to be one of the top 25 products recognized by UN Center of Excellence for UN SDN, which is a center driven by the youth organization of UN as one of the top 25 products built out for COVID responses. We also received various nominations, awards, even fundings and grants for the Akathar product solving a real problem tangible one and then coming out successful while we are at it. Absolutely. I think Akathar has become the star of the tech product and we are on its way to actually build it as a spin off in the process of taking it as a spin off company or the production, which will now carve its own journey going forward. I would like to also now pass on to Rahul, who was one of the first people that joined with us with absolutely no idea what he was getting into and has taken off, has driven the massive exercise of building Misfits pretty much single-handedly along with an amazing team backing me up. So Rahul, how are you? Hello, hello everyone. I'm seeing very familiar faces like Amitabhji and Amrita as well. Great, great to see you guys over here and also the other team members too and even Madhura is over here, great. Great, hi everyone. I'm also here. Yeah, even yeah, of course. Sonam, Komal, Vireesh and Prasangeet and of course Abhijeet. Suraj is missing, where is he? He's in a known network zone right now. Right, he told me about that. Yeah, so I was not even sure what I was getting into as right beside Abhijeet. This was like three years back, September 2018. I was just looking to be in the startup space as in what is it like about. And fortunately, I was quite right that not just professionally, but also on the personal level, I find it quite beneficial for me because now I see, I mean, even today, now I see people like Amitabhji and Madhura are my acquaintance. And that is a positive thing for me. I'm very thankful to Abhijeet, Suraj at that time that you guys gave me that blind opportunity, and also to Vireesh, because even he was there. And I hope we do something, do a different project that we guys are talking about. We'll definitely do it together. And that's it, that's it from my side. It's quite mixed feeling for me because it's a mixed experience for me altogether. Yeah, thank you. I think Rahul has had the most explosive growth within the organization since we started. And I think it was a blind game for, I think even for us here, let's expect people in the early days to back you up and getting the right kind of people in your team is very important. And I'm glad that we share not just a working relationship but even as friends now for life, I believe. And it's been amazing to see your growth and be able to contribute into that in whatever ways possible. So next, would anyone, now I'm going to let people volunteer to speak. I have a suggestion, if you may allow. Yes, please. As Rahul rightly mentioned, we all went into 2021. So it is forward from him. While I was having some discussions with the sunset or solar, the way we head out and hang on in your training to the beneficiary, why not we have the feedback from them. It's prior to our training, rightly having various kinds of mental health and different pains, different ailments while we were having all in place at both the places, right? And I was asked by Alexandra as well as in Ladakh. They were not aware of how to stack up a business, how to enroll into some kind of process or maybe on development. They were even not aware how to fill up a GSE form or whatever it may be, WhatsApp business, Instagram, Facebook. We all are used to it. That was a new process for all the Einstein beneficiaries which comes from slums, especially from Bandra area, where we had our second training. So as part of our first training, why not we have a sort of feedback from them or maybe we would have some interactive sessions with them? How did they see? What was their learning from their training? What was their aid from their training? And I was interacting with some of the GSEs while we were working with Dr. Mejha. I understand they have learned a lot and especially in the pandemic when you aren't moved out from your house, you have started exploring over WhatsApp or maybe Facebook to at least when fill out on to stack up a business. So I think that's one of the key achievements of what you guys have put in your efforts for all the trainings which we have given them. So we have trained around 150 of the beneficiaries rather than Bandra. So I would suggest we should have a feedback from them. Absolutely. Absolutely, Madhura. That's something that we've been doing with our other beneficiaries. I think with the other beneficiaries, we are not at that point yet where we've made enough or supported them enough. But we will definitely do that in new time that's on the cards. And we are going to publish like we've done that with some of the beneficiaries who were with us last year. And we will continue to do that as part of the impact exercises over the next few months. I believe I think since we started doing work the pandemic like the second wave has been quite hindrance to pretty much everything for a lot of people out there and we want to get back in the field and ensure that all the entrepreneurs that we work with find feet in the world and ensure that their dreams come to reality. So we'll definitely do that exercise soon. So yes, going back to the ball, anyone else wants to take up the mic? Okay, I can see Anupam's face smiling out there. And I know there's something fishy happening on the WhatsApp group as well. Yeah, personal chat has started. Please, Anupam, bring me on the spot. In the last two events, I'm just sharing my journey only. So today I want to share my journey through a poem. All right. So this poem is from my friend, Mr. Gautam from Hindi. I hope you all understand Hindi here. So the title of the poem is, I will take a lot with me. This is also a... Yeah. I will take a experience with me that I can't learn. I will take a place as empty as a human being that can't be filled. I will take a place with me, a place that is not so empty that it can be destroyed. And I don't have such a rule that nanotechnology can be destroyed. I will take all of them with me that can't be filled. It's 45 years old. Please, don't be shocked. Because there won't be anyone else like me. There will be someone else. That's it. Thank you. Anupam, you should publish the book. No, it's not for me. No, it's not for me. You speak very well. You can start your sessions. Sonam, if you are talking now, you should continue. What can I say? This is the biggest question for me. That's up to you to decide. Okay, I will think about it. Shubhajit. Shubhajit and Suraj. They will speak instead of me. Shubhajit and Suraj. Yes. So, what can I say first? Yes, of course. Hello. Okay. So, my journey started on 15 December 2021. And first day of experience. 2020. 2020. English. Hello. Thank you, Amitabh. It was great. Wonderful. I'm so glad to be part of this session today. And I just thank and wish all the best to the team to see you. I have to drop out. Sorry for a personal family commitment now. Sorry for this. No problem. Thank you, Amitabh. Thank you, Amitabh. Thank you. So, yes. Suraj, please go ahead. And in English, please. We have Suraj, sir. Hi, everyone. Sorry, I'm in a situation which Abhijeet knows about. So, I mean, it's a very complex situation which I wouldn't like to explain. So, I'm in a situation which Abhijeet knows about. So, I'm in a situation which is a very complex situation which I wouldn't like to explain. But then, I'm missing it all. No problem. We have the recording. Yeah, I was... I'll definitely gonna see it tonight. Definitely. You're missing you too. Thank you, Gomal. At least someone missed... Anupam. Oh, sorry. I thought it's Gomal. So, has the official meeting ended or... Yes, pretty much we are just with the sharing talks. So, Suraj Meshram was about to share about his experience. Suraj, please go ahead. Okay. Yes, sir. Sure. So, I started my journey with the Brooks on 15 December 2020. And the experience is so amazing with the Brooks. And a lot of things I have learned with Brooks. And especially I miss Pokinwali chai and the page trip. Abhijeet sir knows very well about the page trip. The name... The name is just for saying. Which name? About the chai. So, yeah. That's just an internal joke. So... We'll make you go crazy. Anyways. So, Suraj, do you want to share anything more? No, sir. That's it. Okay. So, Suraj, while you are there and I'm not sure how long you are, but please do share your experience. Suraj has been there like... I never thought we would be working together beyond the Swaj Bharat Fellowship. But I think it was in the cards for us. It was written in our destiny. It was written in our destiny to have this party tonight. People joining us. Absolutely. This is a great feeling. Starting something from scratch and then building a team and today doing everything together. It's a fantastic feeling. Despite all the challenges that we have faced we have overcome everything and then everyone is giving their best. We are coming up with new initiative. Talking about so many new ideas that is the best part about work. I mean, we aren't working like a traditional not-for-profit or a traditional company. I mean, we have given so much like all of us. All of us have so much of independence at an individual level that it makes our journey beautiful. I mean, I am sure all of us must be feeling the same. So, talking about my experience it was I and Abijit, I don't know how many of you know we were in the same batch but we were sitting next to each other on the first day. That was our first interaction and we became good friends because since Abijit was working in Mumbai he was sharing his experience and then if you have worked in Mumbai and if you start talking about your experience you will connect at a lot of levels. Be it traveling in train, be it the whole experience of living in Mumbai so you connect with each other. That is how we got connected and the second part was when we are in a college some of you make a group so Abijit, I and some of us in our Swaj Bharat mission we made a group. So we were all posted in different states. Like I was in Uttar Pradesh, Abijit was in Maharashtra, our another friend was in Arunachal Pradesh, another friend in Madhya Pradesh so we all became a very good group. So we also in those three days we also had night out and all of that and the bond grew stronger and stronger during our Swaj Bharat journey. We used to share selfies during that period. So this was the first year of our friendship and then officially when we started in June we had so many discussion around so many ideas like this is what we want to do we made so many reports together and the best part is we were working virtually I mean he was working from there and we also had couple of clips to Delhi for some of our projects. So it was a great journey throughout the first year was difficult second year we picked up and now we are confident about what we are doing not just confident about what we are doing but also confident about the new things that we are entering into. So we are now capable and confident to go out and do multiple things. I mean the management all the people on the board they know that we are pitching multiple ideas. I mean not all of you might know this but we are trying to pitch for multiple ideas work with government at different levels so that is how we are proceeding. And I hope few things turn out in a very positive way so that we grow stronger and stronger and one appreciation thing for my team member Komal there is a lot of things that we do financially I mean when I say we have a lot of things we have a lot of documents to maintain I mean not just for Komal in fact I mean this is for our entire team even if I talk about Sona man, Prasanchit, the operations team Abhijeet overall leading the entire thing of which report to make, monthly reports particular session reports the documentation has been too much for us I mean that is how things have been but it is overall we have done well I mean if any of us any of our board members or let's say if you talk about anyone else any external stakeholder asks us about what we have done in the past we have documented everything at an extensive level so this is an appreciation I just want to appreciate the entire team for what they have done Thank you sir So it has been an amazing experience I would like to thank the entire team for being there for working so closely virtually it's not easy for all of us sometimes we feel demotivated sometimes there are a lot of things to do but we all have done it very we have done it in a very good way and let's hope that we continue doing in a similar way and I also hope that all the interns who are joining us working with us they have a very good experience they learn a lot and even we get to learn something from our interns I mean they come up with new things all of that keeps on happening so it's a process for us the process that we don't want to miss out on I mean if there is an intern joining if there is someone who has new idea we would appreciate if they talk to us about it and you know how we can work on it so thank you to the entire team you know the last thing I would say is I am proud of the entire team and I am proud of Roksha and what we have achieved till now there is a long way to go now so best of luck everyone and let's hope for the best absolutely I think having so much there backed me up in everything we have been doing for the past 3 years I think it has been wonderful that's what Parajourney was a bond for all of us and I think even Prasangeet who has now become an integral and crucial part of Roksha family I think those days really helped us bond and create friendships to a level where I think years of friendships fail just coming together with a common cause and trying to help people in the remotest parts of the country like Suraj left a fancy job at EYI to join this fellowship to work in a village in UP and built toilets Prasangeet did the same left a cushy job took a massive risk and joined this Swach Bharat fellowship and I think even for me it was believe me when I say that I actually built a Swach analysis for from my previous company I was working for an investor then and they had asked me to stay on and I built a Swach analysis of why I should take this random decision to get into the development sector which I think and I think that's the craziness where three of us or four of us including Charada reconnected and I think that was a phenomenal bonding aspect and at that point I think I let Prasangeet I think it's time you stay quiet for a while so incidentally I'll tell you something else so while Suraj and Abhijeet so Abhijeet, Suraj and I we are all from the same batch of the Tarakas program batch 5, 24, 8, 20, 17 what transpired is that during the course of our fellowship Abhijeet and I we were stationed in Maharashtra over the course of our interactions with Kaushik we were working on a startup idea called Neem Wash and then we realized that Abhijeet has this fire in him to start a company but he is not sure what to start but the objective was definitely to to help the ground entrepreneurs people who want to start something but they are in a tier 3 or tier 4 city cities like we were posted as part of our fellowship where there is a dearth of information access to the right resources which is very easily available in a tier 1 a better political city and I think Vruch has stemmed from that the genesis of Vruch has been one which is very good you can write papers on it and I think from genesis the single most backbone of Vruch has been our immense pool of talented people which we have we have a bunch of people who are motivated always cheerful to make Anubhav and always completely second that I heard Anubhav she is the most enthusiastic person in the entire team we should have her face in our brand image yes so I think it is very essential for a nimble organization like us to have clearly motivated individuals and that's something which we want to be very sure of as we move forward from our as we move into our fourth year and so on we want us to hire the right resource only and that's something which I have been voicing and having discussions within the entire team you know a lot of us we shoulder multiple responsibilities I came on board for operations I also had HR so that's something which I never wanted to do because I don't really like HR to be very honest but that's something which we are doing each integral team member of groups has been wearing multiple hats whether they know it or not whether they get recognized for it or not but they have been doing it diligently and they have been exceling at it and this is something which has been ingrained not only as a culture but I think it's a driving force for all of us I think I will stop here there is one more thing which I would like to mention I mean not everyone would know this so during this whole period in the last 2-3 years Bijit also got opportunities to work with different organizations I mean this was when we were working for a project and then he got a opportunity from there that you leave your thing and join us but then he never had the idea of the craziness which he was talking about I am referring to that despite having I mean those were the difficult days it wasn't the smooth period those were the difficult days when you are getting an external opportunity when you are already trying to build something but he never took it up the craziness always stayed I think those days have been testing my patience or not I think that was 2019 was financially very bad for us and at the same time I was getting like pretty much every other month I was getting an offer at a leadership level but I think all I wanted to do was just try it out I think giving it all mattered at that point in time and I even lost about 6 months to illness that was a terrible terrible time I think not a lot of things happened but I think with after November December 2019 when we finally got the Mewa project and a lot of team got in together I think it really lifted my spirits up I remember that so when I had John I think I had Dengu I had come back after a week over a week in the hospital and 2 days later we got a nod from the ministry that you've been awarded the project and we were like we are the youngest organization to get that partnering with a ministry national ministry and getting a project for a year and a half old organization where everyone else was 10 times more experienced than us was huge and that changed parts for us I also over to Sachin at a lot of levels where he persisted enough for me to take that project because I was having second thoughts and was planning to drop that project off because quite frankly we did not I came out of a very bad health phase and I did not have enough team or bandwidth to even do that and I was really scared about if we were going to execute that thing ever I think I've been proven wrong over the next few months and now that we see the project has such beautiful outputs for all of us so I think so Ilana I hope I'm not holding you off from anything Hi Abhijit no I'm still here I'm sorry I was just in the middle of chatting actually I was going to chat to the group but since you have me on mic I just wanted to say you know thank you for sharing all these great stories I was actually in the middle of putting a chat but well since I'm here by voice I just wanted to say that you know all these stories of challenges and triumphs what I'm most impressed about is you know how resilient you've all been right and so this is really a true testament of resilience and this is what you know will actually keep you going you know in the future as you grow and you move forward in your journey because I think you know these challenges that you've actually experienced in the past have informed you of many important lessons and I think as you move forward you know these other challenges will come long but what I'm hearing is that you have this great team you know full of insights and energy and it seems like nothing will stop you and so you know hold on to that resilience you know and and your ability to bounce back is just amazing I'm so inspired by that Thank you very much we just I think we'll close in sometime we've got a couple of people who still haven't shared so I'll let Subhajit, Govardhan, Komal step up and share if you have any thoughts Subhajit Sorry I just missed the connection I'm audible So first of all I would say kudos to the whole team for this three years of Ruksh I mean I was just it's been three months since I've joined Ruksh but it always seems amazing experience I mean since the time I joined in I was really hunting I would say hunting for a good organization to work with and then Ruksh happened it was Abhijit sir who took our interview and I would say at the point I got that offer later I was really really happy and then this three months spent with Ruksh I would definitely say that everything that I've done the different opportunities and the works I have got it was incredible I mean so everyone just helped me desperately Abhijit sir everyone helped me in every point and so it's really an amazing experience for me that's it thank you So Thank you very much for the opportunity So Ruksh is such an amazing startup I love to work here so