By Prittle Prattle News
Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Nemlekar worked for around 30 years in supply chain management as ahead of the department or the section in several companies from various industries. While working, he understood that he could acquire problem-solving skills due to education/training/conditioning/experience. Then, the question came to his mind about why he should not use it for society. Those days he used to give numerous donations to social organizations. He felt the appropriate use of such contributions for the cause is not within his control or monitoring. In that case, he thought about why he should not do some concrete social work. He began as a volunteer for a suicide prevention helpline after taking the requisite training for befriending with distressed/depressed / despaired individuals. Then moving further, he decided to work on the problems, which might be the root cause of the mental stress. That time he was working in general manager position for the Indian multinational well-known for social responsibility. He transparently put forward his desire to work on a part-time basis for the social cause by using his accumulated leaves. It culminated in his release from the organization at the end of 2013. After that, he established DEEP-ARCHAN Social Service for developing problem-solving skills in needy.
In the mid of 2014, his senior colleague Mr. Milind Acharya join him to help in this social work. Mr. Milind Acharya started meeting people to communicate them the utility & availability of the service. Thus, demand for DEEP-ARCHAN’s group sessions and the individual sessions began proliferating, confirms to the reporter of Prittle Prattle News.
After that, till date hundreds of sessions of the wide variety of topics such as Anger & Stress Management, Attitudinal Change, Ageing Gracefully, Career guidance, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolutions, Creativity & Innovation, Customer Behavior Management, De-addiction, Emotional Intelligence, Employ-ability, Entrepreneurship, Financial Planning, Financial Literacy, Getting Guidance, Honesty & Integrity, Improving Continuously, Interview & Success, Law of Giving, Leading Effectively, Life Skills as per WHO, Meditation, Mindset Change, Parenting Wisely, Performance Improvement, Positive Thinking to Positive Living, Problem Solving, Project Management, Quality Management, Relationship Management, Retirement Planning, Sales & Marketing, Service Operations Management, Strategy, Work-Life Balance. Have been delivered by DEEP-ARCHAN. Going beyond this, DEEP-ARCHAN holds sessions on any topic requiring public awareness. Such meetings occur not only for the group/crowd/assembly of people but also for personal knowledge and competence. In-person sessions are strictly confidential conveys to Prittle Prattle News reporter.
Workers/staff/officers of Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai Port Trust, Ordinance Factory, Maharashtra Police, as well as private companies, inmates in de-addiction centers, students, alumni, professors of many colleges/institutes, physically challenged students, waste pickers’ children. Are included in the beneficiaries. It means this service is available without any discrimination of caste, religion, region, language, age, gender. There are many examples such as unemployed despite several interviews, uneasy offices due to gossips, worried entrepreneurs due to lack of business space or capital, individuals lost in broken or troubled relationships, persons under midlife crisis, employees troubled due to politics/seniors behavior, addicted, senior citizens eaten by retirement period. DEEP-ARCHAN Social Service was used to overcome the problems. In addition to this, the problem-solving skills developed in 200+ persons by conducting a workshop with collaborators’ help under the title “Self-I-Capable” in Wai, Badlapur, Matheran, and other locations.
The beneficiaries themselves voluntarily become the service sponsors/activists as they experience how we can help our well-being in DEEP-ARCHAN ‘s way to wisdom. It has been happening that way. Uncounted volunteers are consistently helping DEEP-ARCHAN social service. Besides, many part-time partners are always ready to help. Further, DEEP-ARCHAN always used networking to connect with other social workers, volunteers for various social causes, social initiatives, & ngos. From 2016, DEEP-ARCHAN linked 205+ such entities form Mumbai Metropolitan Region through the whats-app group to cover the most range of the problems faced by needy people. Last four years, before & during COVID 19 pandemic, this group has helped thousands of needy persons. Prof. Amogh Gothoskar, one of the administrators of this group, was conducting sessions on Financial Literacy with a thought to reach the grassroots of the society along with students/participants through the traditional education system. Subsequently, in 2019 he became a trustee of DEEP-ARCHAN Charitable Trust authenticates to Prittle Prattle News.
The organization is more significant than a person, but the function is bigger than the organization. By forgetting this, it does not take long for organizations to become kingdoms and office-bearers to become rulers. So, DEEP-ARCHAN started work first and registered the charitable trust after successfully establishing its work for about five and a half years. Also, every action of DEEP-ARCHAN is kept transparently in front of the general public through social media. Such transparency is almost daily. Unlike other social organizations, it is not just with an annual report. A part of any honorariums sometimes received by DEEP-ARCHAN’s resource persons from organizers is used for DEEP-ARCHAN social service. To date, DEEP-ARCHAN social work has been continuing at a fast pace. The social needs, more and more contemporary problems are covered.
