Krishnavatar Sharma is the co-founder and program director of Livelihood Bureau, a non-profit organization that works with migrant workers in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Wiki/Biography
Krishnavatar Sharma is from Udaipur, Rajasthan. He did his schooling from a government school. Higher Secondary School in Sawai Madhopur. He graduated with BSc (Bio) and LLB degrees from Maharaja’s College, Jaipur, affiliated with the University of Rajasthan.
Physical Appearance
Eye colour: black
Hair Color: Black
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Karishmavatar started his career as a lawyer and worked in the district and sessions courts in Jaipur and Sawai Madhopur. He then started working for the development sector, where he worked for the tribal areas of southern Rajasthan. He has over 27 years of experience developing programs and program teams. He created self-help programmes, natural resource work, employment and legal aid programs and also supervised capacity building programs of development workers. It was during that time that he met Rajeev Khandelwal, both of whom decided to start an organization to help India’s migrant workers live a better life. According to Rajeev,
It all started 15 years ago, when we saw a cluster in our district in Rajkot, Gujarat. We were astonished to find 15-20 people living in a small, crowded room, some of them suffering from tuberculosis, with no sign of medical care, food or other essentials. It was shocking to see children, families who had been working for years, having neither money nor any savings to survive. The whole situation was worrying. For the first few days we tried to interact with them because they lived in our village and we knew them, but their living conditions were an eye-opener for us.
Krishnavatar Sharma with Rajeev Khandelwal
In 2005, Krishnavatar and Rajeev Khandelwal started Livelihood Bureau, a non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in Udaipur, Rajasthan, providing legal aid, skills, social security to migrant workers (Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra). Helps by doing. and livelihood support.
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According to Krishnavatar,
It was not easy in the beginning. We have come this far but the journey has been difficult, progress has been slow and then we achieved some stability. When we started meeting migrant workers, we realized that they are in large numbers and travel to other cities for work. Looking at that, we knew we had to think big and scale. The other big difficulty was to reach out to the unions that do similar work, make them understand the seriousness of the situation so that they know that these lives need to be taken care of and that’s how our journey began.
Facts/General Knowledge
- In 2010, Krishnavatar Sharma and Rajeev Khandelwal became the winners of the Social Entrepreneur of India Award presented by The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with Jubilant Bhartia Foundation.
Krishnavatar Sharma and Rajeev Khandelwal as winners of Social Entrepreneurs of India 2010
- He is also a member of the Governing Board of the Center for Rural Education, which was established in 1996 to ensure access to quality education for the children of the Sawai Madhopur region of Rajasthan.
- Krishnavatar is also an author and has written articles for the NGO World Economic Forum and helped conduct several surveys related to migrant workers in India.
- In 2018, she was selected for the ‘Leading for Systems Change: Delivering Social Impact at Scale’ program at the Harvard Kennedy School, the public policy school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- In October 2020, Krishnavatar and Rajeev Khandelwal appeared in Karamveer Special of the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by Amitabh Bachchan.
Krishnavatar Sharma and Rajeev Khandelwal in KBC’s Karmaveer special.
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