The National Council
of Changemakers.
A governance body being constituted by invitation to hold Social Sutra to standards above market convention. Practitioners with demonstrated standing in governance, finance, public health, and institutional stewardship, convened to review, challenge, and safeguard the company's intent as it scales.
A company is only as clean
as the people it answers to.
The social sector in India does not suffer from a shortage of consultants. It suffers from a shortage of institutions that can be trusted with intent: with capital, with community, with the quiet responsibility of getting it right when nobody is watching. We are building Social Sutra to be one of those institutions.
The National Council of Changemakers is not a marketing panel. It is a governance instrument. Members are invited for their standing in governance, finance, public health, community practice, and institutional stewardship, and are asked to challenge our work, our engagements, and our judgment. The council meets on record. Its counsel shapes what we accept, what we decline, and how we measure ourselves.
Convened with intent.
Additional members are being invited across governance, public health, philanthropy, and community practice. Names will be added only after a member has formally accepted the seat.
CA Hemant K. Arora
Chartered Accountant · Former Board Director · Uttarakhand Rattan Awardee
A senior Chartered Accountant with decades of practice across audit, financial governance, and corporate advisory. Has served on the boards of Saboo Coatings Ltd., Borosil Glass Ltd., and Acuris Advisors Pvt. Ltd., and held management and project consultancy assignments for large multinational companies. Visiting Faculty at I.I.T. Roorkee. Served as Chairman, CII Uttaranchal State Council (2005–06), and is a recipient of the Uttarakhand Rattan Award.
A veteran Rotarian and Past Governor of Rotary District 3080, he led an Inter-Continental Medicare Team of 17 Indian doctors to Swaziland, was instrumental in building State-of-Art schools across Uttarakhand after the 2013 disaster, and was conferred Rotary International's highest honour, the Service Above Self Award. Trustee of Soni Foundation Trust and Akansha Charitable Trust (BHEL Hardwar); Treasurer, Him Jyoti Foundation & Himalayan School Society; President, Chinmaya Mission Roorkee.
CA Pranav Jain, FCA
Special Invitee, ICAI ASB & AASB · QRB Empanelled Reviewer · Author, Audit of Financial Statements (Taxmann)
A Chartered Accountant with 25+ years of practice across Big 4 and Indian firm leadership, having served as Manager at Deloitte and EY, Partner at Haribhakti & Co. LLP (BDO India network), and COO & Senior Partner at BGJC & Associates LLP. Presently Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at Anveshana Consulting, New Delhi. His expertise spans statutory audit, audit quality transformation (AQMM Level 4), Ind AS, SQC framework design, and NFRA/QRB inspection readiness.
Special Invitee to ICAI's Accounting Standards Board and Auditing & Assurance Standards Board, and Co-Chair of the Corporate Laws Committee at PHDCCI. Regular faculty at ICAI, IICA (MCA think tank), C&AG, and Taxmann, including the NFRA–IICA course for Independent Directors. Author of Audit of Financial Statements, now in its 5th edition with Taxmann.
Dr. Deepa Sharma
Senior Gynaecologist · Former Director, State Health Services · 50+ years in public service
A senior gynaecologist with more than five decades of service in the public health system, Dr. Sharma retired as Director of State Health Services after a career spent inside the machinery that delivers healthcare to millions. Her practice spans clinical medicine, district and state-level health administration, maternal and child health programming, and the on-ground reality of running services across urban and rural India.
On the council, she brings the one perspective most consulting firms lack, how government health systems actually work, how policy translates (or fails to translate) into delivery, and what it takes for a private-sector partner to be taken seriously by public institutions.
Governance, not advice.
The council has formal standing. Its members review, question, and, where necessary, dissent, keeping the company competent, accountable, and aligned with the communities and institutions we serve.
"We would rather be a company answerable to a serious council than a large company accountable to no one. The National Council of Changemakers exists to make sure Social Sutra never confuses growth with legitimacy."
Shelly Monga & Harleen Kaur, Co-Founders