Shashank Singh
Director, Groundwater & Reforestation Adaptive Management Association (GRAM)
Shashank Singh as a director of Groundwater & Reforestation Adaptive Management Association (GRAM), is an ex SBI-Youth for India Fellow, formerly associated with Barefoot College, Tilonia as a water coordinator on water conservation projects. Under the fellowship program, he initiated a community based rainwater harvesting project to revive a pond for the development of a cattle park in a Chota Narena village of Ajmer (Rajasthan) supported by community of Chota Narena and Barefoot College, Tilonia. After the fellowship he rode across 13 states via Western-Eastern Ghats in India on motorcycle for 65 days to promote rain water harvesting as a sustainable solution to the water shortages. The campaign was to create awareness and to promote rainwater harvesting in different organizations/ NGOs/Schools /Colleges/Local clubs. He has done his under graduation in Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He started his career as a quality control engineer in Hero Cycles Ltd. but after the fellowship program, he decided to continue his career in development sector.