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Pranav Kumar, a political as well as a staunch social activist who carries several aspects in his personality. An inspiring and diligent leader as well as a staunch social crusader always dedicated towards bringing in the positive change we desire has worked as an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the MLA, 21, Dhaka Assembly Seat, Government of Bihar and Ex-Spokesperson at The Indian Student Parliament (Bhartiya Chhatra Sansad) for the State of Bihar. As a social crusader he has worked for the Students' Oxygen movement which is active in the state of Bihar and Delhi working for making Education the biggest issue and also with Green saver and Welfare which is active in the city Patna from last 5 years trying to make our city a better place to live in. Also awakening the society against the evils and injustice through street plays by self founded social community Pratibimb. He has even worked in a Hindi feature film "Biharism-A Fight with Identity", a movie based on the issue of racism the people dwelling from the state of Bihar have to face. His works till date is well known for bringing positive change in every fields be it roads, electricity, health, agriculture, educational reforms, strengthening sports scenarios or development of social harmony in his work place which is a huge milestone of his career. Few of his important works are mentioned below:

Starting from his college days, he founded a social community named “Pratibimb – The Reflection of Change” which was basically a dramatics group and through his plays, he started performing stage plays and street plays on many social political issues or injustice beginning from his own college. Slowly and slowly, his plays crossed the college boundaries and reached other colleges of South India like NIT-Surathkal, Manipal etc. The motive behind these performances was to awaken the society against social injustice and side by side the group used to collect money also in form of prizes. After cutting the expenses met for the performance, the whole prize money was invested in some social activities, like celebrating mothers’ day among our elders at old age home in Dharwad or celebrating Children’s Day among the students of Kelkeri Sangeet Vidyalay located in Karnataka, an institute for physically disabled people or extending their volunteering hands towards “Samarthnam” an organisation for Blinds or organizing some social meets namely “Mulaquat” in his college premises on some heated topics related to the problems inside the college campus by inviting some experts from the concerned field and then post discussion bring out some remedies to the problems. Few prominent street plays by his group which left harder impact upon on the people includes “Bhrashtachaar”, “Dastak – A play based on Women atrocities”, “Dharm”, “Kalyug ka Aam Aadmi”, “Satyendra Dube”, “Bazaar”, “Laalsa – A play based on human greed” and many others.

While he was in the college, he got in touch with a leading social organisation named “Students’ Oxygen Movement” working in the city Patna which has now expanded to the cities of Ranchi and New Delhi with the motive of bringing revolution in the field of education. Besides taking part in the programs of the movement, as its’ coordinator he started a program named “Talent Sharing Program” in its’ premises. The main theme of this program was that the student’s coming from the under privileged sections of the society would be given free English and also every student would get a chance to teach all so that all gets a chance to share his/her talent and thus every one can learn from every other student.
His association with “Green Saver and Welfare” an organisation founded by his friend lead to various social initiative like planting trees in the city, organising seminars on environmental issues, traffic cultures etc, distribution of winter wears collected from nook and corners of the city Patna among the poor.

In March 2014 he got an opportunity through the Indian Student Parliament to work with an independent MLA from Dhaka, East Champaran (Bihar) as his OSD. He quit his well established job as a Chemical Engineer to fulfil his passion to work for rural India. This can be termed as the most important tenure of his career till now. He got an opportunity to work on every single issues of an assembly constituency. The elaborate discussion about his works is done below.
- Besides the work of the MLA, he collected sponsorships and empowered women by organizing "women’s Kabbaddi tournament", "Women’s Cricket tournament as well as “Women’s Badminton tournament. Even for men, he organized cricket, badminton, football tournaments.
- Now if we come to the point of electricity, then, during the 4 years tenure, the MLA has distributed 234 transformers but soon after his joining Pranav adopted a unique way of igniting the minds of the general public by conducting public meetings at all villagers to buy electricity poles and wires themselves by collecting the required amount and further MLA was there as a backup for providing transformer and thus not rely upon the government policies as no one knows how much time it would take. The result of his effort is that out of the 244 villages of his constituency, maximum has been electrified.
- One more unique effort by him was “Pravaas Yaatra” for which he invited 14 ministers of the Bihar government with the consent of Mr. Jaiswal to Dhaka constituency and during which the MLA along with all the ministers spent 1 whole day in every panchayat, visiting door to door, listening to the problems of the general public by conducting “janata darbaar” with the concerned minister at various places. The team even spent the night in the each panchayat keeping in mind the fact that the working class would not be able to participate in the meeting during the day time. The result though was not satisfactory as maximum remedies of the problems remained in files only but yes at least 20 % got sorted out.
- In the field of education, as an honour to the meritorious students, he sorted out top three position holders of matriculation examination from each high school of Dhaka constituency and top three students from among all the high schools and got them felicitated in front of the public and many dignitaries. This started the feeling of competition for education among the students. Even selected top 5 teachers from Dhaka who have been performing their duties with full dedication, by conducting detailed survey of their works and got them selected in the same manner.
- In health sector, he prepared questions for the MLA catering the needs of the general public through door to door survey which resulted in sanctioning of many “Swaasthya Kendras” at numerous villages, got 117 among 874 hand pumps installed at various required places of extreme needs upon his recommendations. The assembly questions even resulted in sanctioning of too many “Mini Jalapurti Yojna” at numerous villages and schools, kitchen Sheds in schools as well as collective toilets, and even, he got 3 – 4 water tanks sanctioned at larger population villages (though none of its’ construction has started yet). One important milestone of his career was when the assembly question prepared for Mr. Jaiswal resulted in the upgrading of Dhaka referral hospital to Circle level hospital thereby increasing the number of beds to 100 and also better health facilities.
- In agriculture sector, he got installed tube wells by repeatedly putting pressure on the Government through his application and thanks to the MLA for supporting the cause.
- His effort made Mr Jaiswal the only MLA in Bihar who releases the report card of the year 2014-2015 of his work in the form of a book with all the important contact numbers of officers of respective departments and also the details of the questions raised by him in the assembly.
- Lastly the most important work which is being carried out under his supervision is the “Vidhayak Adarsh Gram Yojna” (MLA Ideal Village Scheme). Key features of the scheme are mentioned below:
  - VAGY gives focus to community participation by formation of Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA) in each of the three villages adopted
  - Includes installation of 150 LED lights in each of the three villages adopted. The electricity bill of these lights would be paid from the fund collected (one rupee daily/house) by the RWA supervised under the elected chairman from amongst the members
  - Establishment of Sewing centres where girls/ladies can be trained free of cost
  - Establishment of various micro scale industries like of candle, camphor, pickles, paper plates, spices etc. Place has been finalised in each village and the owner has been convinced that they won’t be paid the rent for the first 6 months.
  - 3 months training for security guards, drivers and mobile repairing will be provided and then jobs for 75% of them there after
  - Installation of public toilet facilities for men and women at various places
  - Opening of computer centres so as to provide free learning to the youths of the village
  - Construction of roads and canals by setting priorities as per needs in coordination with the gram panchayats
  - Thereby strengthening the economy of the village and empowering women by providing suitable livelihood.

Work on VAGY is in progress in villages namely Parsa, Chandanbara, and Basatpur. Detailed door to door survey is complete and the Computer and Sewing centers has been started. Currently work on the installation of LED lights is in progress. Work on micro scale industries is being done in coordination with Drishti Group from Kolkata.

Beside all these, he has been recognized as a social communicator, a writer who is known as a straight-forward speaker on social issues and as a motivator who ignites young minds with his vibrant speeches.

Early Life:

Pranav was born to Mr. Ajit Kumar and Mrs. Suman Devi at Patna, Bihar. He has only one sibling: an elder brother Mr. Prasoon Kumar. He is a native of village Harshankarpur Narhanna, Patna. His father is a teacher in Government middle school. He is a pure vegetarian, a teetotaller, non smoker, and even has aversion to tea, coffee and cold drinks and loves simple homemade food. He did his schooling from Don Bosco Academy, Patna and then PUC from St. Karens’ Secondary School, Patna. After completing his B.E in Chemical Engineering from SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad he joined Millennium Environment and Water Services Private Limited, New Delhi as a Project Engineer but finally, his inclination towards building a nation of our dreams guided him to this place.

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