Founder & Director

Amita Deshpande has worked extensively in Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility since the past 15 years. An IT Engineer by basic education, she went on to do her Masters at Purdue University, USA with a focus on Sustainability. She worked with CSR teams of multinational corporations, consultancies, non-profits, and community-based organizations in the United States and India and eventually moved to India to found reCharkha - The EcoSocial Tribe (री चरखा) and My EcoSocial Planet, with the rich experience she has gathered. reCharkha is a Social Enterprise, working on Upcycling non-recyclable plastic waste using a traditional weaving technique, that uses a Charkha and Handloom. reCharkha employs tribal and rural women and youth in this process, thus enabling Livelihoods for them; in an attempt to develop an EcoSocial Planet! Apart from this, Amita is also the Project Designer and Lead of Project - Zero Waste Tadoba, with Know How Foundation, where a close to Zero waste situation is achieved with source segregation, composting, sorting for recycling and lots of Awareness Generation!

Co-Founder & COO

Abhishek comes with 8 years experience in Manufacturing operations. He holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Lean Operations Management, from Detroit, USA. He has worked in a variety of industries from foundry, forging and automobile. His strong experience in machining will help us enhance our traditional equipment and techniques of upcycling. In addition, he brings in new methods and systems to streamline our production processes. Abhishek has also worked in the field of Nutrition and Fitness, hence brings in a different expertise required for our rural community initiatives, which is a part of our non-profit entity "My EcoSocial Planet". We are thrilled to have him onboard and look forward towards our journey ahead.

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Business Development Operations, Mumbai

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