Mr Ashok Taneja

Mr Ashok Taneja is one of the most respected and recognised professionals of the auto components industry in India. He has held the office of Managing Director & CEO at Shriram Pistons and Rings for over 20 years, before superannuating on March 31, 2022. With more than four decades of experience he has represented the industry in various forums in India and abroad.

Mr Taneja is currently Chairman, TK Precision (P) Ltd and serving on the Group Supervisory Boards of the Anand Group and Minda Industries Ltd. He also holds an advisory position in Asahi India Glass and is serving as Advisor to ACMA Centre of Excellence. He was on the Board of Governors of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh for the period 2015 - 2021.

The Executive Committee is an elected body that is responsible for the overall management of DCCW’s affairs. Its members work strictly in an honorary capacity. No remuneration, sitting fees, or any form of compensation is paid to any Executive Committee members, nor does any Executive Committee member receive travel fees towards attending any DCCW meetings.

Ms Radhika Minocha

Hony President

Radhika is an advisor for social enterprise, and has extensive experience spanning over two decades in investment banking and non- profit management. She has been associated as Board / Executive member with non-profit organisations focused on arts and disability, women and children, both in India and the US. She has an MBA from University of Bombay and has done a course in Non-Profit Management from Georgetown University, Washington DC. She has been associated with DCCW since 2012.

Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC (Retd)

Hony Vice-President

Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra is a second-generation Infantry Officer who has served the Indian Army for over four decades, rising to the high rank of Army Commander, Northern Command, responsible for the security of Jammu & Kashmir. After superannuating from the Army, he was appointed Member-Judge in the Armed Forces Tribunal. Gen Chachra has been conferred with the highest service award of Param Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India. He has been associated with DCCW since 2018.

Mr Asheesh Vaderaa

Hony General Secretary

Asheesh has been an established businessman in the Leather, retail and real estate industries for the last 40 years. He has been associated with DCCW since 1996, working with PALNA for ten years and thereafter has been involved with the management and running of DCCW’s Janakpuri Centre. Asheesh is an alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi.

Ms Radhika Ramnath

Hony Joint Secretary

Radhika's professional career has been in the software industry, spanning both the government and multi-national sectors, and she has also authored a couple of books. She did her MTech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi. She has been associated with DCCW since 2009 in various capacities.

Mr Ishwinder Singh

Hony Treasurer

Over a career spanning 40+ years, Ishwinder has held management positions in several corporates including DCM Ltd and Hindustan Lever Ltd, and as CEO in the Murugappa group, before starting out as an entrepreneur in the area of exports, a business he continues to manage and run. His interests include alternate healing therapies. He holds a post-graduate degree in Marketing and Sales Management from Delhi University. He has been associated with DCCW since 2013

Ms Meenaxi Gupta

Hony Member

Meenaxi has been a social worker for over four decades and worked with many charitable organisations and institutions including Holy Family Hospital over this period. She has been associated with DCCW since 1987. She graduated from Bangalore University and is a linguist, being fluent in all four South Indian languages apart from English and Hindi.

Ms Sunita (Tia) Luthra

Hony Member

After her initial years in Canada where she worked with Canada Trust Realtors, Sunita came to India in 1989 and started a fabric business. In 2006 she started helping DCCW with its Vocational Training programme and since then her involvement has grown to include the BalChetna program and overall management as part of the Executive Committee.

Ms Brinda Goradia Shroff

Hony Member

Brinda has been a businessperson in the area of Manufacturing for the last 30 years. She is also Vice Chair of the Managing Committee of The Indian School, New Delhi. Brinda is also a published poet. She holds an M. Phil degree in Economics and Politics of Development, from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has been associated with DCCW since 2007.

Mr Pradeep Kuckreja

Hony Member

Pradeep is an honorary Director on the board of SSIPL Foundation and is simultaneously following his lifelong hobby of acting both on stage and in films. He has previously been an entrepreneur for many years, following which he worked as a Senior Consultant, Corporate Affairs with Mc Donald India. He has been associated with PALNA / DCCW since 1990.

Ms Sunita Parmar

Hony Member

Sunita Parmar has been active in Social work activities right from her school days. She got involved with the activities of DCCW since 1984 and has served as a member of the board in various capacities since 1994. She is a Trustee of the Satyawati Balbhadra Krishan Bhuwan Charitable Trust. Sunita holds an MA (Phil) degree from Delhi University.

Ms Asha Gupta

Hony Member

Asha has been a social worker for over 30 years, and has been associated with DCCW for almost all of that time, being involved with the crèche, Palna and Vocational Training programs. She has worked for over 15 years with Indian Council for Child Welfare and has been the Treasurer for the past eight years. She did her BA in English (Hons) from Rajasthan University.

Mr Mukul Bhatnagar

Hony Member

Mukul is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by profession and has been running his own chartered accountancy practice MUKUL BHATNAGAR & CO. in Delhi since 1991.He has wide experience in audit, finance and income tax. He specialises in advising companies on how to increase revenue and control costs. He has been associated with DCCW since 2007.

Ms Kiran Dalmia

Hony Member

Kiran got involved with DCCW in 2003 to help with the erstwhile Creche program. Being a textile designer, she then also got involved with the Vocational Training Program, and later became a member of the Executive Committee. Kiran holds a B Com degree from Bombay University, and a diploma in Textile Designing.

Ms Barkha Kumar

Hony Member

Barkha is an entrepreneur and a Whole Time Director with an organisation in the area of Exhibition of films. She has been associated with DCCW since 2006. Barkha graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University, with a BCom (Hons) degree.

Ms Sangeeta Aswani

Hony Member

Sangeeta specializes in working with school-children and advising parents. She drives the Citizenship Program at the Indian School in Delhi, and also holds workshops on parenting. She got involved with DCCW in 2016 to help with the BalChetna and Vocational Training programs, with a focus on helping special needs children improve their hand-eye coordination and dexterity by making innovative products.

Ms Neeru Bhatnagar

Director

Neeru Bhatnagar joined as Director, DCCW in 2023. She is a development professional with over 23 years of experience with 14+ years in a leadership and management role. She is a post-graduate in Child Development and Resource Management and Extension from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University. She came to DCCW after having worked with Mobile Creches for over a decade, and prior to that has also worked for several years in Asian Centre For Organisation Research and Development and HelpAge India. She has been instrumental in developing / scaling up strategies and developing childcare models for varied contexts.

The Director is the CEO and reports to the Executive Committee. She can be contacted at [email protected]

Mr Sanjay Mishra

Assistant Director - Programs

Sanjay has well over 30 years of experience in the social sector. He joined the Delhi Council for Child Welfare in 1993, and has been involved with planning and implementing various programs of the Council. He is also responsible for program monitoring and reporting, as well as liaising with government agencies and several of our donors. He holds a Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi.

Ms Loraine Campos

Assistant Director - Palna

Loraine holds a Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from the Delhi School of Social Work. Soon after her graduation in 1987 she joined the Delhi Council for Child Welfare as the Adoption Officer at Palna, and has been with the Council ever since. She holds overall responsibility for Palna, our home for abandoned and lost children, including all the processes related to adoption. She is the face familiar to thousands of Palna families.

The day-to-day operations across all the centres are carried out by a dedicated staff, led by a very experienced and committed senior management team. The total staff strength including all professional and support staff across all centres is about 150.

Due to the nature of the activities of DCCW, there is a preponderance of women both on the board and the staff as a large segment of the staff are ayahs / nurses / care-givers to infants and children.