SISK EC Members 2024 – 2026
President: Shukla Chattopadhyay
President-Elect & Communications Officer: Mohua Shome Lalvani
IPP: Jyoti Prasad
Secretary: Rumela Mukherjee
Treasurer: Bhaswati Biswas
Programme Action Officer: Saswati Bhattacharya
Membership & OD Officer: Punam Agarwal
Friendship Link Officer: Nandini Dutta
Club representative 1: Shukla Chattopadhyay
Club representative 2: Jyoti Prasad
Shukla Chattopadhyay is an educator and environment activist; she spearheaded the mangrove plantation project in the Sunderbans for which SISK was awarded The Best Project Award in 2022 at SIGBI Annual Conference. Her presentations on Life on Land and Food Poverty at SIGBI, SI and CSW platforms have been well received.
Erstwhile Programme Action Officer and Communication Officer at Club level. She also holds the prestigious APD Prosperity position at SIGBI Federation in addition to being Club President and Club Representative at NASI from India. Her infectious enthusiasm makes working for Soroptimist a delight
Mohua is a keen heritage enthusiast and a traveler. She describes herself as an introverted extrovert and loves time alone and is increasingly drawn to spiritualism as a Reiki Master. She looks forward to this stint with SISK as The President Elect & The Communications Officer for the tenure 2024-2026 to contribute meaningfully to take the club forward.
Jyoti Prasad is self-taught macrame artist and always aspires to be unique. She started off macrame as a summer activity with her daughter, which motivated her to start this home-based business in August 2019. Creating is like meditation for her. She now runs a successful home-based business all by herself. She has also done voluntary teaching in many underprivileged schools. She was the President of SISK in the previous tenure and fulfilled all her responsibilities diligently.
Bhaswati Biswas Charter Secretary of the club and a Past President with SI South Kolkata and Inner Wheel Club of South Calcutta. Currently serving Treasurer at NASI of India as well as Treasurer at SISK. Loves being close to nature. A committed Social Worker.
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If you want to truly challenge a person who has been teacher for most of their adult life, you might ask them to speak a few lines about themselves. In my mind, being a teacher has always been on how I can do my bit in empowering others and never seek the stage for myself.
An age-old proverb goes: “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime.”
Programme Action Officer SISK
This has been my guiding light and my mantra which not only helps me to push my students, it also continues to always bear an immense sense of gratitude. I’m truly indebted for having exercised this opportunity to create better citizens of tomorrow. As my role of a teacher never ended with the ring of a bell – I always pursued ways through which I could influence the students’ character in their formative years and help make them a better individual.
Through my association with the South Kolkata chapter of Soroptimist International, I would definitely try to harness on that motivation and energy and objective. If I can humbly hold my head high on being a successful teacher, I would now like to take that identity forward and continue to make meaningful contributions to the lives of people beyond the classroom boundaries.
And, as always, I would be genuinely humbled by such a possibility.
Punam Agarwal is a girl from the hills, she decided to resume her studies after her two children moved abroad for higher studies. After graduating this year, she continued with further studies in Finance.
She loves reading and visiting new places. Her passion is learning and she has done innumerable short duration workshops and classes such as cookery, Pranic healing, gardening, tarot card reading, diamond sorting and grading, Montessori Method of teaching (diploma) and so on and so forth.
She believes she is a citizen of the world and wants to see a clean, green and prosperous world. Her motto is “sarve bhavantu sukhinaha, sarve santu niraamaya…..” meaning let all be happy, let all be healthy, let no one be suppressed by grief.
She tries to live a model citizen’s life and hopes to inspire others around her to do the same.
Rumela had been in the Admin Dept in CESC for three decades and is currently with PNB MetLife as Distribution Manager in Park Street Branch. She is involved with multiple spiritual, social and cultural organisations. Blessed with a 4-year-old grand-daughter, spending quality time with her is Rumela’s dream come true!
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Friendship Link Officer