Annual Report 2025-26
Every year, Parivartan brings new opportunities to learn, grow, and strengthen our bond with the community. Reflecting on past experiences, we recognised our achievements and shortcomings, guiding our programmes towards meaningful change. This year, the formation of a women’s band, storytelling workshops for adolescent girls, and women’s growing participation in farming, sports, and community life have inspired new hope. Witnessing their growing confidence is heartening. This 2025–26 report reflects our collective efforts, strengthened by community voices and expert collaboration.
Annual Report 2024-25
Looking back at Parivartan’s journey is an opportunity to reflect on how an idea has evolved through the collective efforts of the community. Launched in Narendrapur in 2011, this initiative has now reached 21 Gram Panchayats. Through education, sports, theatre, women’s empowerment, agriculture, and livelihoods, we have strived to realise the vision of holistic development. Over time, we have recognised the importance of deeper engagement over expansion. This 2024–25 report captures our achievements and challenges through introspection. Much remains to be done, but with the community’s support and the entire Parivartan team’s commitment, I am confident that we will continue moving forward.
Annual Report 2023-24
It has been years since I became associated with the idea of Parivartan. Gandhi’s vision of Gram Swaraj received limited recognition in modern development thinking, which troubled me. After meeting rural development practitioners and experts nearly 15 years ago, I envisioned Parivartan, inspired by Gandhian principles. Since then, this journey has continued to evolve through the partnership of experts and rural communities, responding to grassroots needs.
Annual Report 2022-23
When envisioning Parivartan, I never imagined it would grow into such a multifaceted initiative. Beginning with education, agriculture, theatre, women’s empowerment, and sports, it expanded to livelihood opportunities and cultural revival. Artists, intellectuals, and theatre practitioners from across India joined rural communities, exchanging ideas and creating new development perspectives, while transforming agricultural challenges into success stories and bringing rural development dreams to life.
Annual Report 2021-22
Parivartan was initiated with certain goals in mind. A vision to bring about positive change in the field of education, build
awareness for women’s rights, revive the lost arts, crafts and performative traditions of the region, promote sports so that taboos and inhibitions are eradicated from the region and the community thrives under values of inclusiveness and harmony....
Annual Report 2020-21
Parivartan is completing a decade of its
establishment. Ten years is a long time for
an organization and many milestones and
lessons are stored in this span of time. This
is also a time for introspection and reflection for an organization as it traverses on its journey from infancy to maturity. Despite the limitations imposed by Covid-19 pandemic, we embarked on this important exercise to take stock of achievements and measure them against the goals and the vision we had set out with...
Annual Report 2019-20
Recently, I was face to face with a group of women, at Parivartan’s stitching unit, interacting about what their involvement meant to them and their families and what they thought it could be in future. It was a
moving experience to hear them, as they shared their journey from being a persona non grata, to silently facing taunts and unsavoury remarks for crossing ‘social limits’ to their gradually changing social position of being a partner....
Annual Report 2018-19
Parivartan arose out of a combination of multiple ideas and reflections. It is an integral part of my life’s journey. I hail from village Narendrapur, located in Siwan district of Bihar. The history of my village is beset with sacrifices of martyrs, who died during India's Freedom Struggle...
Annual Report 2017-18
As another year goes by, it is time to reflect and take stock of our aspirations and goals at Parivartan. When I started my journey with Parivartan, I did not visualise that with each passing year, we would have to progressively broaden our area of work and include numerous dynamics persisting on the ground...
Annual Report 2016-17
Dear friends, today in 2017, when I look back and see, I see an unfolding of a quiet dream which began with the setting up of the Takshila Educational Society in 1998. The idea to open schools offering quality education slowly blossomed into ideas of rural development as well...
Annual Report 2014-15
In Apr ’14, Parivartan had already started buzzing with activities, with nearly acquired
the present form in its breadth of initiatives. Several steps were being undertaken to design programs better considering the dynamic aspect of grassroot involvement. Intervertical coordination had featured...
Annual Report 2013-14
Parivartan is an initiative for integrated rural community development. In the initial days, Parivartan undertook several collaborative steps to narrow down its approach towards integrated rural community development...
