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Alka Gupta addressing a gathering

Alka Gupta

Founder and President of Parlance Endowment Society. She started the Society in 2007 for a simple reason: the training that changed her paying students' lives was reaching nobody who could not pay.

The work she has ledGet in touch

How it began

From a classroom in Delhi to schools across Chhattisgarh

The Society grew directly out of professional training work, which is why its programmes were structured from the start rather than improvised.

The early assignments went to government school children, tribal students, unemployed women and school teachers — spoken English, life skills, grooming and confidence, delivered in batches under government and public-sector orders. The health, wellness and yoga work grew alongside it.

Train, do not distribute. A skill or a practice stays with a person. A handout does not. The working principle since 2007
Alka Gupta at a Society gathering

Founder and President since 2007. Authorised representative of the Society for proposals, government submissions and CSR partnerships. Serves without remuneration.

Approach

What she insists on

These are not slogans on a wall. They decide which projects the Society accepts and how they are run.

  • Train, do not distribute. A skill or a practice stays with a person.
  • The girl child first. Where a choice exists, programmes go to girls' schools, residential schools and women without income. See the KGBV and residential-school assignments.
  • Write it down. If an activity was not registered, photographed and reported, it cannot be counted.
  • No ritualism, conversion or dependency. Wellness work is voluntary and respects each participant's own faith. See our principles and limits.
  • Honorary service. Office bearers draw nothing from the Society. See how decisions get made.
  • Say what is true. No claim on paper that the records cannot support.

Around her

Governance, not one person

The Society is run by a Managing Committee. The full governing-body list, with names and designations, is provided with formal proposals and for due diligence.

President

Alka Gupta

Chairs the Managing Committee and signs proposals, agreements and government submissions.

General Secretary

Programme and records

Coordination, correspondence, activity records and reporting to funders.

Treasurer

Accounts and audit

Banking, project-wise accounts, audit coordination and utilisation statements.

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