About Enactus – Ramjas College
Enactus Ramjas, established in 2011, is an organization, consisting of a group of dedicated and driven students who share the mutual aim of creating a better and more sustainable world and seek to uplift the communities through entrepreneurial action.
Since its inception, Enactus Ramjas has seeked to bring formidable changes in the society and has worked over 10+ projects like Aarogya, Neer, Nifayaa, Swabun, TransCreations, to name a few. Our initiatives have the enabled the betterment of thousands of lives and created 182 entrepreneurs through sustainable business models.Change isn’t just a mindset, it is a culmination of our efforts & actions and we, at Enactus Ramjas, stand firm with this belief. Because, we choose to be the changemakers!
“For the community, by the community.”
Their Story
Enactus Ramjas is an international non-profit organisation and the largest experiential learning platform that connects young minds, experienced veterans and marginalized communities through entrepreneurial-based projects and is dedicated to create a better world while developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders.
Enactus Ramjas, established in 2011, is a student-run organisation that seeks to uplift communities through entrepreneurial action. Under expert guidance, the student leaders at Enactus engage in the formation and implementation of community development programmes.In the 11 years since its inception, Enactus Ramjas has been decorated with numerous grants from KPMG, Godrej, Walmart, Mahindra, etc. and various achievements, while gaining national recognition.Worked on 10+ projects viz Aarogya, Aradhaga, Khwab, Swabun, TransCreations, to name a few, created 182+ entrepreneurs and impacted thousands of lives. With numerous communities and countless volunteer hours, we move towards a single goal of ours: a better world.
Because, change is always from within for what’s around!
Mission and Goals
- Zero Hunger
To end hunger, all forms of malnutrition and ensure access of nutritious, safe and sufficient food throughout the year.
- Good Health and Well Being
To ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at all ages.
- Reduced Inequalities
To uplift marginalized communities both economically and socially through an entrepreneurial effort.
- Clean Water and Sanitation
To achieve universal, equitable, and adequate access to safe and affordable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all.
- Responsible Production and Consumption
To reduce future environmental & social costs and strengthen economic competitiveness.
- Gender Equality
To provide women and girls with equal access to health care, decent work and other facilities and achieve sustainable economies.
Cabinet Members of Enactus – Ramjas College
| Designation | Name |
| President | Aradhya Bhalla |
| President | Divyam Thapliyal |
| Organisational Development Directors | Soumyadeep Khan |
| Organisational Development Directors | Tanya Agarwal |
| Organisational Development Directors | Vinayak Tiwari |
| Human Resource Director | Ishika Mittal |
| Human Resource Director | Shweta Jha |
| Community Development Director | Ruhani Nagpal |
| Community Development Director | Samreedhi Sawhney |
| Director, Project Aradhaga | Divyanshi Harvani |
| Director, Project Aradhaga | Muskan Gupta |
| Director, Project Inaayat | Abheek Arora |
| Director, Project Inaayat | Ram Saran |
| Director, Project Inaayat | Varinda Arora |
| Director, Project Khwab | Navya Garg |
| Director, Project Khwab | Vanshika Gourisaria |
| Director, Project Swabun | Akshika Sharma |
| Director, Project Swabun | Amal Varghese |
| Director, Project Waraq | Shailly Gupta |
| Director, Project Waraq | Suryan Sehgal |
Projects
Project Aradhaga
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Phase: Ignition
Back in 2012, Enactus Ramjas joined hands with an NGO, based in Jahangirpuri, called Aradhaga. We helped them with the basic training for sewing, knitting, weaving and some other skills to ensure that they are skilled enough to earn a basic level of income for themselves.Since then, project aradhaga has been an emotional initiative for Enactus Ramjas which aims to ensure an inclusive world for everyone around us. The thread (Dhaga) of togetherness is stronger than ever today!
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
- Gender Equality
- Decent Work and Economic Growth
Project Inaayat
LIFE BELOW WATER
Phase: Implementation
Project Inaayat is an initiative towards tackling the issues of clean water and climate action through effective utilization of water hyacinth – an aquatic weed that has invaded freshwater systems in over 50 countries across the world.
Water hyacinth, natively known as Jalkumbhee, doubles its population in 5 days; forming dense, impenetrable mats that clog waterways, blocking sunlight and reducing dissolved oxygen levels underwater by 30%.
We strive to curtail water pollution caused by water hyacinths & protect various life-forms below water by ethically uprooting the water weed and transforming it into sustainable useful products.
Project Avenues
Currently, our main avenue is handicrafts made out of water hyacinths. The product line includes coasters, table mats and baskets made by extracting and processing the water weed. These products are a sustainable alternative to their plastic counterparts. The handicrafts are made by our beneficiaries belonging to the refugee community based in Majnu Ka Tilla, Delhi.
Mission
At Project Inaayat, aim towards improving the environmental conditions by effectively utilising the hidden prospects of water hyacinths while providing sustainable opportunities for economic development.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Khwab
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
Phase: Implementation
India generates 9.46 million tonnes of plastic waste annually out of which 40 per cent remains uncollected and 43 per cent is used for packaging, most of which is single-use.Project Khwab is an initiative towards substantially reducing this non-biodegradable waste from degrading the quality of the water bodies and landmasses.
Khwab, resonates our “dream for a better planet”. It is an initiative to develop a culture of sustainable consumption in India.With our entrepreneurs spread across various communities, we create a range of zero-waste and sustainable products for personal care, that prevents tonnes of plastic from going into landfills and oceans. Our entreprenurs are specially-abled individuals, who are provided with online training on the basis of our comprehensive research and development. A significant proportion of the revenue goes to them, thus ensuring substantial levels of income for community.
Present Avenues
Our present avenue is bifurcated into two branches. Firstly, producing soap tablets, which are single use dissolvable drops and secondly, shampoo and conditioner bars, which are curated with immensely nourishing ingredients. Our products contain no plastic packaging at all. Instead, we use eco-friendly packaging methods which prevent any addition of harmful chemicals to out surroundings.
Future Avenues
We hope to build a novel avenue which will redirect the plastic waste to the relevant stakeholders for converting the same into utility products. In this entire system, a circular economy model would be established where we look forward to eliminate any use of plastic in the first place.
Mission
We aim towards creating zero-waste alternatives to daily essentials like shampoos and regular liquid hand washes, reducing landfills created out of shampoo bottles at it’s core, by integrating dreams of Team members and entrepreneurs.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Swabun
SANITATION
Phase: Implementation
Over 377 million urban people live in 7,935 towns and cities and generate 62 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per annum. Only 43 million tonnes of the waste is collected, 11.9 million tonnes is treated and 31 million tonnes is dumped in landfill sites.
Project Swabun is an initiative towards better sanitation and waste management practices apart from being an attempt to work against water, land and air pollution. We move together towards building sustainable products and making them accessible, acceptable and affordable.
Project Avenues
Past Avenue
Seher and Dravya: The project involved procuring one-time-used soaps from hotels and resorts followed by recycling them into new soaps by employing underprivileged women who have been victims of substance abuse and prostitution.
Present Avenue
Presently, The main avenue is the Matka Composter. To reduce the issues related to careless disposal and inefficient waste management practices, we devised an eco friendly model of a terracotta home composter which is a stack of 3 terracotta pots and helps in the systematic process of composting. The compost is then put to various uses by different groups of people and ensures an eco friendly approach towards waste in general. The composters are made by the potters of the Kumhar Colony, who find an alternative source of income through this avenue.
Mission
At Project Swabun, aim towards a safer and healthier environment by ensuring proper sanitation and efficient waste management practices. Easier access to cleaner options for ensuring sanitation is our utmost priority.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Waraq
FOOD SECURITY
Phase: Implementation
20 million tons of agro-waste is being burnt in the states of Haryana and Punjab every year. The majority of them are Rice Straw which doesn’t have any market value. 25 million people suffer in Delhi NCR due to severe air pollution caused by this agro-waste burning. India is home to 46.6 million stunted children, most of them lacking the basic nutrients. Over 7000 indians die of hunger every day. 50% of the elderly population of India is suffering from malnutrition. Apart from this, Of the estimated 5,600 tonnes of plastic waste generated in India daily, a huge portion of single-use plastic in our collective footprint comes from dining cutlery.
Project Waraq aims to tackle the three-fold issue of food insecurity, Air Pollution and Unemployment. Our biodegradable plates are a special eco-friendly product made from post-consumer materials like stubble and agricultural waste embedded with vegetable seeds.
Project Avenues
Our biodegradable plates are a special eco-friendly product made from post-consumer materials like stubble and agricultural waste embedded with vegetable seeds. When you plant the plate after use, in a pot of soil or outside in a garden, the seeds in the paper germinate and grow into plants. After using the plate, it will be taken care of by our beneficiaries and effectively be used by planting it into soil, which will grow into an all new plant providing vegetables/fruit. After the whole production process these vegetables and fruits will eliminate the food insecurity of the malnourished students in the school.
Mission
Not only are we working towards curbing two of the major environmental evils of stubble burning and disposable plastics, we are creating a circular flow of food production and consumption by enhancing the nutrition level in food of children within the student age bracket while also advancing our goals towards afforestation. Project Waraq aims to tackle the problem of food insecurity, Air Pollution, Unemployment.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
PAST PROJECTS
Project TransCreations
TRANSGENDER
A large number of trans people are denied employment opportunities because of the stigma associated with the community. Project TransCreations is an initiative born out of the desire to empower the transgender community and uplift its members socially and financially.Since its inception, TransCreations has believed that ‘Inclusion’ has to be more than just a word and is writing its own story of a progressive India by setting up India’s first range of beauty salons exclusively run and managed by transpersons, making them independent and transforming them into fully-fledged and well-equipped salonists.
Free Hugs Campaign
On 21st November 2015, Team TransCreations organized a “Free Hugs Campaign” for the Transgender Community at the Connaught Place as part of the Transgender Awareness Week.
Project Avenues
- Campaigns
Free Hugs campaign to promote acceptance as a part of Transgender Awareness Week, Wall art to remind everyone of the changing society by covering walls with #Lovewins paintings and murals
- Present Avenue
‘Vibgyor beauty Parlours’ aims to enhance the skills of our beneficiaries as beauticians and provide them a safe environment whilst giving them representation in professional capacities and financial stability.
- Future Avenue
We hope to build a more equitable society and with this in mind aim to build an online platform expanding employment opportunities to the community, making the project more sustainable.
Mission
Recognizing the atrocities faced by the Transgender community, Project TransCreations is striving to provide judgement and bias-free workspace whilst giving them representation in professional capacities and financial stability.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Bawarchi
FOOD
As per UN report, India tops the hunger list, 1 in 4 children are stunted, famished, and malnourished and over 20 crore Indians go to sleep with an empty stomach. Also, according to statistics, 43% of the young people are engaged in the consumption of Drugs. About 10 million young people require substance abuse treatment throughout the nation. The alarming rates demand attention to provide a dignified life to the victims of substance abuse.
Project Bawarchi is an endeavor to work towards solving the problem of food security while providing rehabilitation to victims of substance abuse, break taboos, remove apprehension and stigma related to substance abuse and help these young people get one step closer to mainstream growth.
Sprout Cafe
Project Bawarchi, an initiative of Enactus Ramjas, has been working relentlessly towards solving the problem of food insecurity. We do so, by not only providing affordable food to people but also by rehabilitating victims of substance abuse. Located in Mukherjee Nagar, the Sprout Café was opened by Project Bawarchi as a part of the same initiative! It’s all about delicious food, reasonable rates and serves a very important social cause behind it.
Project Avenues
Canteens
Under this avenue, canteens were set up that were exclusively run and managed by victims of substance abuse.
Food Cart
This avenue, popularly known as ‘Bawarchi on wheels’ had food carts stationed at various locations of Delhi and was popular amongst workers.
Food for Seven
With an aim to tackle the issue of chronic hunger, the avenue strived to provide quality meals at subsidized costs in shelter homes across Delhi.
Mission
Acknowledging the fact that victims of Drug and substance Use are shunned by society and are considered a burden, Project Bawarchi aims to rehabilitate them, transform them into constructive assets and help them regain their status in society.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Arogya
HEALTH
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that almost 30% of the world population lacks access to essential medicines and the cost of pharmaceuticals is the main reason which hampers its access to the poor and thus the rural sector faces a major crisis in terms of penetration of healthcare facilities.
Project Aarogya is an attempt to pave a way for affordable, accessible, and acceptable healthcare facilities in rural areas, to improve the health standards of the country. Through various avenues initiated to ensure the availability of basic health care facilities even in the remotest of areas, we strive to build a more accessible medical system for every individual.
Project Avenues
Campaigns
With campaigns like ‘Emotions Anonymous’, a twelve-step program for recovery from mental and emotional illness, and ‘For A Happy You’, a mental health campaign, Project Aarogya has always strived to achieve the holistic well-being of individuals.
Past Avenue
Collection Centres: The samples of different patients were collected by a technician and the results for them were provided the very next day. Mental Health Wings: These were set up in the premises of clinics, nursing homes and Mental health consultation services were provided at low cost.
Present Avenue
Aarogya Pharmacies: Providing generic medicines and making the public aware of the existence of these cheap, yet effective medicines of the same composition as that of their branded counterparts.
Tele Consultation
844 million people lack basic drinking water access: more than 1 of every 10 people on the planet. Despite a large n: Providing clinical consultation via digital platforms.
Mission
Abiding by the concept that Healthcare is a necessity and not a luxury, Project Aarogya is striving to build an emotionally, mentally, and physically healthy society by providing quality healthcare to rural and peri areas so that it is accessible and affordable.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Neer
WATER
percentage of the earth being water-covered, the amount suitable for actual consumption is very tiny.
Project Neer is an attempt to ensure basic water facilities for every group of people. Through various avenues initiated to ensure the availability of basic water and sanitation facilities, we strive to build a more accessible system for every individual.
Project Avenues
Present Avenue
With a diverse set of avenues including Matka filters to ensure easier and affordable access to clean drinking water, Water ATMs to ensure remote availability, and lake rejuvenation which strives towards intoxicating the water bodies, Project Neer aims to create a sustainable system. We also work towards the upcycling of floral waste to create sustainable products.
Future Avenue
We hope to strive for a more innovative way to ensure an inclusive system and with this in mind, Project Neer aims to work towards building Water Towers which harvests water from the air and could also act as a rainwater collection installment.
Mission
Recognizing the alarming state of water availability and accessibility in most of the parts of our country, Project Neer is an initiative that moves towards one single goal of ensuring easier access to potable water.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project Nifayaa
WASTE MANAGEMENT
With an aim to support, inspire, encourage and lift each other, Project Nifayaa works towards women empowerment and a much more inclusive system through the creation of social entrepreneurship opportunities for them.Project Nifaaya works towards textile and other waste management through its innovative models.
Project Avenues
Present Avenue
Project Nifayaa focuses upon textile waste management as its present avenue.
Future Avenue
Project Nifayaa will be working towards building sustainable models to reduce Electronic Waste.
Mission
With the dual aim of solving the problems of waste management and empowering women, Project Nifayaa is a dedicated attempt to ensure careful and sustainable waste management practices.
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
Project The Enactus Store
E- COMMERCE
At Enactus Ramjas, believe in coming up with sustainable and affordable products. To ensure that our products reach a larger group of people, we started our very own website: TheEnactusStore.It begun as a collaborative venture wherein the product of various Enactus teams around the country were listed.
Aspire to be a platform which bridges the gap between our sustainable products and the ones who could possibly want to buy them. Because, every product is a story!
“Be BUY the change you wish to see!
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
The Digital Project
DIGITALIZATION
India’s literacy has increased drastically since independence but we still don’t seem to reach a point where every individual has the basic level of knowledge required to ensure decent growth. Without education, there will be absolutely no progress in any of the socio-economic sector.
With this in mind, The Digital Project (e-Pathशाला) was one such initiative by Enactus Ramjas which aimed to bridge the gap between the learners and the ones who could possibly provide the required knowledge.
To move past the stigma, we ensured that the educators belong to the group which has been discriminated since forever: HIV victims, acid attack survivors, senior citizens and the differently abled.
“Because, education indeed has no boundaries!”
Sustainable Development Goals Fulfilled
ACHIEVEMENTS
2020
- Winners: The Venture Competition
- Winners: It Gets Better Global Grant
- Winners: Godrej LOUD Initiative
- Winners: Enactus 77 Sec Stories For Good
- Winners: Kalpavriksha, IIM Indore
- Winner: Beyond Profits
- C2P SRCC Winners and NMIMS Winners: B-Plan
- Top 12: World Water Race
- 2nd Runner Up: Enactus India National Competion
2019
- Winners: The Venture Competition
- Winners: It Gets Better Global Grant
- Winners: Godrej LOUD Initiative
- Winners: Enactus 77 Sec Stories For Good
- Winners: Kalpavriksha, IIM Indore
- Winner: Beyond Profits
- C2P SRCC Winners and NMIMS Winners: B-Plan
- Top 12: World Water Race
- 2nd Runner Up: Enactus India National Competion
2018
- Winners: KPMG Business Ethics Grant
- Winners: Kalpavriksha, IIM Indore
- Runner Up: Enactus India National Competion
- Top 12: World Water Race
2016-17
- Runner Up: Enactus India National Competion
- 2nd Runner Up: HSBC Business Case Study Competition
2015
- Winners: UNILEVER Grant for Improvement of Sanitation
- Runner Up: Enactus India National Competion
- Winners: Walmart Womens Empowerment Grant
- Winners: TATA Chemicals Special Competition
- Winners: KPMG Business Ethics Grant
2014
- Winners: Walmart Womens Empowerment Grant
