City Kayasthas organise ekta manch

Sri Chitragupta Welfare Samaj, which is an organisation of the Kayastha community, was established in the city several years ago. The organisation, which was registered in 2002, is also affiliated to the All-India Kayastha Mahasabha, Delhi. The samaj has branches in Kamothe, Kalamboli, Uran, Kharghar, CBD Belapur, Sanpada, Vashi and Koperkhairane. Now, the samaj has decided to bring all the smaller kayastha communities of the city under one association. This initiative — also known as 'Chitransh Ekta Manch' was formed with a seven-member committee. The committee consists of PN Srivastav, Navnit Jaipuria, Ketan Sinha, Rajan Kumar, Kumar Kanak Kishore, Ritesh Sinha and Srinandhan Sahai. They say they were finding it difficult to coordinate with smaller kayastha communities in the city and many times these smaller communities would end up not getting the kind of aid they deserved. PN Srivastav, the president of this newly-appointed committee, says that in the past they have been conducting many medical camps and health check ups for the welfare of the community members. "Apart from undertaking social activities, we also organise yearly programmes like Chitragupt Puja, Holi celebrations and regular picnics. We hope that through this new initiative of ours we are able to reach out to our community at large. The basic idea is to tie all our members in one thread." There are 500 kayastha families living in Navi Mumbai and the association is sure that this new initiative of theirs will surely help the various members belonging to the different kayastha families. Ritesh Sinha, a member of the community, says, "Many members of our community participated in this meet. We discussed various ways in which all community members can be in constant touch with each other." Apart from that, the Chitragupta Samaj Welfare Association also held a general body meeting at Yuva Centre in Kharghar on September 25 at which they appointed a new committee. At that meet, the outgoing president handed over charge to the new president.