Our Team

Founder & Chairman

Mr Jyoti Ranjan Tripathy,
the Founder and Chairman of Subhadra Charitable Trust, studied Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. After a brief stint in MNCs, he pursuaded his passion in teaching, he founded ‘Vidwan Classes’- a premier IIT and Medical entrances coaching institute of Odisha which has produced over 1800 IITians, over 5000 NIT/BITS graduate and over 80 NEET qualifiers, who have joined premier institutes of the country. He has been working tirelessly in supporting pedagogical refinements by undertaking various workshops on science and technology like the“Science Movement”-wherein many top scientists and professors from all over India have graced the occasions. To further strengthen grassroots education, he has founded Cohen International school, a CBSE affiliated school with classes from LKG to 12th which is spread over 10 acres of land near to IIT Bhubaneswar.

As an avid philanthropist, Mr. Jyoti Ranjan Tripathy, has been contributing immensely towards the socio-economic development of the people from vulnerable and underprivileged sections of the society. Apart from being the Founder & Chairman of SCT, he also soldiers the responsibility of the Chairman of ‘Cohen International school’, Director of ‘Vidwan Classes Pvt. Ltd.’, Director of ‘Odisha Primary Teacher Research and Training Institute’ and Secretary of ‘National Institute of Mathematics’.

Vice Chairman

Mr. Vikas Bahinipati,
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands has over 18 years of corporate work experience in various countries of Africa, Middle East & Asia. He is an Educationist and a Leader with administrative experience spanning across various countries & cultures. Trained as an ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor and has also completed Kaizen – Six Sigma, Green Belt course too. After a glorious stint working in various Multinational Companies in the world, he returned back to India with a purpose of contributing on the development of the educational sector in Odisha from grassroot level. He has been one of the founding members of Cohen International School and has ensured various new areas of learnings is introduced in the school for shaping the careers of the students. He has been the leading face of the organisation and has showcased Cohen at various platforms. The school’s administrative & academics affairs are immensely benefited from his extensive years of corporate work experience. Cohen is reaching new heights under his astute leadership.

Programme Director of Subhadra Charitable Trust

Minakshi Tripathy,
As Programme Director of Subhadra Charitable Trust , her focus has been grant management, nurturing programmatic initiative, strategy development as well as developing project norms and implementation procedures. She is also holding the position of Project Head in Vidwan Classes Pvt Ltd– the knowledge partner of the Trust.

Minakshi is an accomplished development professional with more than 24 years of managerial and leadership experience in the areas of livelihoods, health, nutrition , WASH and education. Before joining Subhadra Charitable Trust, she has worked in PRADAN, World Bank, UNICEF and Ernst and Young LLP. For more than a decade, she has been instrumental in implementing largescale developmental projects in close association Government Departments of Jharkhand , Karnataka and Odisha.

She is a skilled trainer and is selected as South Asia Associates from Traidcraft, UK in 2013. She attended South Asia-US Exchange Program to Build Alliance on Ending Domestic Violence on Women in San Francisco and New York in 2002. She holds a post graduate in Political Science from Utkal University, Odisha and Master of Arts in Rural Development (MARD) from IGNOU.