I was fortunate to get an opportunity to work with ekjut during my early days of public health career.

As a professional I am yet to find a organization who are so passionate about their work and have equally strong human values.

I worked there from Year 2004 to 2012, and got an opportunity to interact with many of worlds best public health professionals, researchers and research fellows during this period. As a team member I was responsible for managing the several surveillance systems of ekjut trials, leading a district operations, recruitment and mentoring of the new employees.

I got an opportunity for Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (European Union) to pursue my Masters in Child Health at Institute of Tropical Medicine (Berlin, Germany) in year 2007 -2008. During this period several colleagues also got opportunity to pursue several trainings, orientation programmmes at national and international institutes.

I have represented the organization and its works at various national and international forums. Although I have come out of the organization 4 years back, I am still attached to it on a personal and professional level and feel proud to be part of their recent achievements. I joined Ekjut as District Manager, West Singhbhum and subsequently took several challenging roles and got equal support and guidance from the senior colleagues and juniors of the organizations during this period.

As an employee, we always received appreciation for our hard work, celebrated successes with both seniors and juniors, shared responsibility and worked as a team .

Ekjut is a perfect mosaic of creative minds, technical brains, and kind hearts bonded by a strong sense of community feeling to reach a common goal of ‘building healthier communities!’ The absolute passion that Dr. Nirmala and Dr. Prasanta share with this ‘family’ is truly inspiring.

Working with Ekjut (August 2012- December 2013) just after completing my Masters in Public Health from Pune University was the best career decision. I had been given the opportunity to choose by myself the area of work in which I was interested. I think this was a very important factor that helped a new person in this field, like me, to get a chance to explore my interests! Thanks Ekjut.

Life in Chakradharpur was much beyond just numbers and android phones that I was working with! It helped me understand the culture better and also helped me grow as a researcher.

Working with Ekjut has helped me grow in many ways. It has helped me believe in my dreams. With this experience I am now gearing up all my efforts for a strong research career, I’m working as a Research Scientist-I and have enrolled for PhD at Pune University.

Thank you for giving me such a great experience!