About REACHA CONNECT
REACHA CONNECT is a national digital platform designed to extend support to beneficiaries beyond training and placement. It has been created to build a strong and connected alumni ecosystem where individuals can continue to grow, learn, and access opportunities throughout their career journey.
Our Vision
To build a connected and empowered alumni network that enables lifelong learning, career growth, sustainable livelihoods, meaningful collaborations, mentorship
opportunities, and positive community impact for future generations
Our Goals
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Build a strong national alumni ecosystem
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Promote lifelong learning and upskilling
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Provide mentorship and career guidance
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Facilitate networking and collaboration
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Support career progression and livelihood opportunities
The Rationale
Many beneficiaries face challenges after course completion—limited networks, lack of guidance, and fewer opportunities. REACHA CONNECT bridges this gap by providing a platform for continued engagement and career support.
Beneficiaries of REACHA programs can become members.
Members get access to learning resources, job opportunities, mentorship, and events.
The platform connects alumni, trainers, mentors, and industry partners.
Members engage, collaborate, and grow together.
The platform connects alumni, trainers, mentors, and industry partners.
How REACHA CONNECT Works
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Who Can Become a Member?
Any individual who has completed a REACHA program can join REACHA CONNECT and become a part of our national alumni community.
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Open to all REACHA program graduates
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Free and easy to join
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Connect. Learn. Grow.
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Our Services Ideas
Career guidance
Skill development support
Personal mentoring
Creating Long-Term Impact
REACHA CONNECT is more than a platform—it's a community that supports lifelong growth, creates
opportunities, and drives sustainable livelihood outcomes.
Better opportunities for career advancement​
Stronger Careers
Better Livelihoods
Improved income and livelihood stability
Stronger Communities
Connected alumni building resilient communities
About The Founder
Shri Jagdish Chandra Pant
(1938–2025)
Founder, REACHA Foundation | Retired IAS Officer
Shri Jagdish Chandra Pant was an eminent civil servant, visionary leader, and dedicated social reformer whose lifelong commitment to public service inspired the establishment of REACHA in 1992.
After serving the nation with distinction as an IAS officer of the 1961 Uttar Pradesh Cadre, he envisioned an organization that would bridge the gap between public policy and people's aspirations through sustainable, community-driven development.
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Founder REACHA
Chairman REACHA
1992-2023
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Founder's Legacy
Late Shri JC Pant founded REACHA in 1992 to take impactful development programmes and projects to the people of the country.
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National Leadership
He shaped Disaster Management Policy in India as Chairman, High Powered Committee (HPC) in Disaster Management set up by the Prime Minister of the country in 1999. Sri Pant was IAS UP Cadre 1961 batch, who retired in 1996 as Secretary, Government of India
Founding Vision
A lifelong contributor to the nation, both as a distinguished IAS Officer and through his visionary leadership at REACHA, Shri Pant was more than just the founder of REACHA.
Living His Vision
Building a Better India
REACHA continues to work on his wisdom, mission and vision, and commitment to do greater good for the country. The values of JC Pant – empathy, kindness, dedication and unshakeable commitment to service are integral to REACHA.
He and REACHA believe in uplifting others, in nurturing potential, and in building a more compassionate and resilient India. The values of integrity, responsibility, perseverance, and selfless action were practiced in every step he took, and this is what everyone at REACHA strives to achieve each day.
Professional Journey
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1961–1996 – Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
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1980–1990 – Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh
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1990–1995 – Secretary, Government of India
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1992 – Founded REACHA
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1995–1996 – Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Leadership Beyond Public Service
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Disaster Management Committee (1998)
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WHO International Review Committee (2000)
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Planning Commission Task Force (2000)
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Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (2001)
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Uttarakhand Administrative Reforms Commission
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Uttarakhand Red Cross Society
An institution built to reach out to the masses, so people can empower themselves with knowledge, know-how and the will to change their own lives.
Our History
Get to Know Us
About Reacha
1992
Year of founding
Many of these citizens felt very strongly about government programmes not reaching the target groups for which they were meant. They felt it was necessary for voluntary workers to provide the ‘bridge’ for such programmes to create real impact on the ground.​
Thus, REACHA began to facilitate the effective implementation of many government programmes - mainly in the domain of agriculture, rural development, health & family welfare, and education.
REACHA was conceptualized and Founded by Shri J. C. Pant (IAS Retd. Batch of 1961) in the year 1992, in consultation group of conscientious bureaucrats, technocrats, scientists and educationists who felt that it was necessary to
create an institution that could ‘reach-out’ to the masses and enable them to empower themselves with knowledge, know-how and the will to bring about positive changes in their lives
Over the years REACHA devised its own programmes and their delivery methodologies based on local needs, customs and traditions, in tune with its ‘mission and philosophy’.Many of these modules were tried and tested extensively on the ground for many years before getting incorporated into its main portfolio of ‘people-centric’ development.As REACHA’s work progressed, it developed meaningful partnerships with many like-minded institutions, organizations and corporates.​
It is necessary for the sake of larger national interest that there occurs a selfless inter-sharing of knowledge (also called ‘open source’ in today’s cyberspace jargon), know-how and effective working methodologies across such dedicated organizations to be able to bring about real positive change on the ground. Such partnerships have now begun to show their results. And these results are fuelling the genesis of more such partnerships.​
REACHA as an organisation is firmly committed to practice organisational integrity.
REACHA as an organisation is firmly committed to practice organisational integrity.
What guides us
Vision, Mission and Approach
Vision
To reach out to masses, be with them, hear from them about their needs, and thereupon develop and implement sustainable models of socio-economic growth and development, using suitable technology and innovation, through a participatory process of engagement.
Mission
A community-based not-for-profit development organization delivering high impact in education, health, skilling of youth, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment and more.
It works with underprivileged communities on need-based projects, partnering government, corporate CSR, civil society and academic institutions, for measurable outcomes, in harmony with nature and the aspirations of people.
Approach
Every intervention seeks community partnership so that locals are heard, they decide, and they implement. REACHA acts as knowledge partner and facilitator, brings all stakeholders together, and co-creates models in a participatory way, with beneficiaries as their own evaluators and strong community ownership.
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Sri. Nikhil Pant
Chairman and CEO
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Sri. (Dr.) Haresh
Gupta Member
Our National Governing Board (NGB)
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Dr. (Msr.) Abha Pant
Vice Chairperson
Sri. (Dr.) Jaideep
Chandra Member
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Sri. Akash Khandelwal Member
Sri. Ishu Sharma
Member
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Sri. Lalit Pant
Member
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