Dr Prasanta Tripathy, a medical doctor, with a Master in Mother and Child Health from the Department of International Child Health, London University has worked in progressively senior positions in a National and International Development Organisations. He relocated in a remote rural village in Jharkhand, from where he oversee the work of Ekjut – a development organisation that he has co founded. He is the founder Secretary of Ekjut- meaning ‘coming together for a cause’. It is a National Voluntary Organisation committed to work towards helping develop successful strategies to overcome injustice and barriers and challenges in creating healthy and sustainable communities