Our team at Vidhyadaan Indore

Our Team

Mr. Sanjay Dubey

Mr. Sanjay Dubey is an IAS officer of the 1993 batch. As the Commissioner of the Indore division, he had conceived and created many initiatives. These include Vidhyadaan, Indore Society for Organ Donation as well as Aahar. He has steered & given direction to all of these.

Mr. Sanjay Dubey, a Mechanical Engineer is an alumnus of IIT Delhi, London School of Economics, and visiting faculty of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussorie & IIM Indore. He is the recipient of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Excellence Award, the highest award for any Civil Servant, President’s Award, Chief Minister’s Excellence Award, and several other national & international awards in the field of e-governance, law & order, and health.

He has several innovations under his belt some of the noteworthy ones are “e-attendance”, “removal of religious encroachments” and “Aahar” an initiative that allows executing surplus food donations, effortlessly as well as ‘Body Organ Donation’ an initiative that helps with donations in Indore. Many of these initiatives are replicated by State and National Governments.

He presently serves as Principal Secretary, Energy and New & Renewable Energy in Government of Madhya Pradesh while earlier he has served as Principal Secretary, Urban Development & Housing, Commissioner Indore division & Collector of Dhar, Jabalpur & Rewa.

Mr. Rakesh Jain

Mr. Rakesh Jain is the Director of INFOCRATS Web solutions Pvt. Ltd, a global software consulting company headquartered in Indore, India.

Professional Experience:

With 22 years of entrepreneur experience as business owner at INFOCRATS Web Solution Pvt. Ltd., he has worked as IT consultant to many corporate concerns, government organizations and educational institutes in India as well as in USA. His innovative ideas and the zeal to turn them into reality have helped his company above excellence. His ideas have turned into some of the best projects in company’s portfolio. Taking collective strength of team and innovation as key element of his master plan for success, he gives all his dedicated efforts in bringing the best for the company’s goodwill and success.

Projects Undertaken:

Under his guidance, INFOCRATS Web Solutions has undertaken several projects for web development, software develop, app development and more. Some of the prestigious projects done by INFOCRATS Web Solutions in the Government sector include e-Attendance, CitizenCOP, Swachh Indore, Organ Donation, Vidhyadaan, GRP Help Line (A safety & security app for railway passengers), M.P. Tourism, etc. CitizenCOP, a personal safety application for individuals, has won several awards including e- Governance Excellence by MP Government, Salam Madhya Pradesh Award and more. Two more of our applications GRP Help App and e-Attendance app have also received the e- Governance Award for Innovative Use of ICT and m-governance respectively. By being a responsible citizen, he has played his important role in creating this platform, which is an example of creative use of technology.

Awards and Recognitions:

Mr. Rakesh Jain has been conferred several awards at state, national & international level forums for developing CitizenCOP:

E-Attendance application received the e-Governance Award 2014-2015 for m-governance..
e-Governance Award 2013-2014 by Honorable Chief Minister of MP Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan for excellence by MP Government..
The Mobile for Good Award by Vodafone Foundation 2014..
India Merchant’s Chamber (IMC) Mumbai for innovative use of technology..
Runner Up in mBillionth South Asia Innovative Mobile Technology Awards 2014..
Salam Madhya Pradesh Award by Madhya Pradesh Police..
Indian Leadership Award For Industrial Development by All India Achievers Foundation..
Indian Achievers’ Award for Social Service by Indian Achievers Forum..
Received Acharya Anand Yuwa Samman-2015.

Mr. Shantanu Dubey

Mr. Shantanu Dubey is a Computer Science Graduate from IIT Bombay and is presently working in a Technology firm ‘POSTMAN’ as Data Scientist. He has a knack for developing new & innovative ways of seeing any problem & finding a solution to it. His dictum is every adversity is an opportunity to develop and grow. His managerial skills, coding prowess, commitment to the task at hand, and above all passion to serve humanity make him stand out from the crowd.

He has been associated with the development of the structure & framework of Indore VidhyaDaan Society and has been an active member to guide its operations. Later, he went on to found a start-up that uses drones to calculate and identify crop production of productivity by using AI & ML. He continues to guide & mentor several young Computer Science students.

Recipient of National Talent Search examination (NTSE) fellowship 2013 and Kishore Vagyanik Protsahan Yojna (KVPY) fellowship 2015.

He was also involved in another social initiative 'Aahar' that serves surplus food from caterers, restaurant and citizens to needy. Thus minimising wastage.

Miss. Aashita Jain

She is an architect who graduated from Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, NMIMS, Mumbai.

She has always been passionate about art and design which made her choose this path. As a child, she always wanted to do something creative and innovative to help society. She was always inspired by the works of her father who is a social entrepreneur and wished to be a part of similar social initiatives to do her part.

As she was getting inspired by the innovative thoughts and the good deeds of her father, she constantly tried to develop a similar thought process in order to serve society along with him. It gave her immense satisfaction to see how small initiatives could bring smiles to a lot of faces. This made her play a role in the VidhyaDaan initiative.

She has been a part of it since the very beginning, supporting the cause with her unique graphic designing skills and much more. With her active participation and zeal to make a difference with her youth touch, she also got associated with other initiatives like greenGene, Aahar, etc. She deeply believes that sometimes a very simple idea or a mere thought can give birth to a great initiative that could turn into a journey of achieving milestones after milestones.

She feels fortunate, to be a part of something so big, that grew with the help of so many people’s ideation and hard work.

Mr. Siddhant Dubey

Mr. Siddhant Dubey is a Kishore Vagyanik Protsahan Yojna (KVPY) scholar pursuing his BTech from IIT Delhi, he incessantly seeks opportunities to learn and execute new ideas. He is fortunate to have an excellent exposure to have interned with PWC, Deloitte, and KPMG.

He has also developed expertise in supply chain management while he interned with supply chain startup ‘DelhiVery’ In the process of learning from and contributing to their operations. He is passionate about giving back to society and believes that he can leverage his lessons in the Tech world to solve problems faced by common people.

An actor and a keen football player, he has also served as coordinator and manager of ‘Mood Indigo’, the biggest social and cultural event of IIT Delhi.

He has been at the forefront since the inception of ‘VidhyaDaan’ and has worked with us to force the connections and interconnections in the pickup and supply of food. He has also been involved in other social initiatives like Aahar, Organ donation, etc.