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Satwik Mishra - National Youth Awardee

Date of Publish - Tuesday, 23rd January 2018

Introduction:
Hailing from Purnea District of Bihar, Satwik is an engineer by profession, an author by passion and a development professional by choice. Resigning from his lucrative MNC job, Satwik started his journey of social journey, after joining SBI youth for India fellowship. He worked in a rural school of Odisha and benefited more than 500 tribal students of that school. He created a science lab, digital library, various audio-visual learning resources and also taught for computer literacy. After finishing his fellowship, he then got into SPARC Fellowship of TATA Trusts, where he was placed with the Member of Parliament (Paschim Champaran, Bihar) to assist him in speeding up the rate of development in constituency. Working in Champaran, Satwik worked for Rural Street lightening, aid distributions to the specially abled, improving learning and teaching methodology in government schools, creation of digital libraries in girls schools etc and made impact to more than 40 lac live. Currently, Satwik is working under TATA Trusts, for Andhra Pradesh Government's ambitious program i.e. Rural Prosperity mission.

International Award:
Global Youth Ambassador ( A World At School)
Karamveer Global Chakra (Rex -Instituted with the UN)

National:
National Youth Award 2015-16 (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, GOI)
Young Achievers Award 2017 (Quality Council of India & Vision India Foundation)
Social Entrepreneur Guest Speaker Invitation (RBI Hyderabad)
Citizen Journalism Award 2016 (Vision India Foundation)
State Representative 2015 (International Youth NGO Summit, Chennai)
Blaze Energy Efficiency Award 2014 (Schneider Electric)

State:
Budding Entrepreneur Award (Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit 2013)

Fellowships:
SPARC Fellowship (TATA Trusts)
SBI youth for India Fellowship (SBI Foundation)
Rex Karamveer Global Fellowship (iCongo & UN)
SAM Global Fellowship (SAM Global Foundation)

College:
Special Achiever Award 2014 (VIT University)
SPARC Fund (International Centre for Entrepreneurship & Technology)

Satwik is looking forward to contribute through Public Service in future as well