Our Teams

Hindu Council of Australia Teams

Directors

Board of Directors 2023

  • Shri Prakash Mehta – Director, Governing Education  
  • Shri Bhagwat Chauhan – Director, Governing Charity
  • Shri Ashwin Sharma – Director, Governing Seniors
  • Shri Sai Paravastu – Director, Overall Responsibility 
  • Shri Makarand Bhagwat – Director, Governing Interfaith & Grants 
  • Smt. Shoba Deshikan – Director, Governing Events 
  • Shri Chirag Trivedi – Director for Finance 

Hindu Council of Australia national team

  • Shri Sai Paravastu – National President / president@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Smt. Shoba Deshikan – National Secretary / secretary@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Surinder Jain – Vice President, Interfaith and Hindu Hub  
  • Shri Sanjeev Goyal – Vice President, Grants / grants@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Jayakumar Sadananda – Chaplaincy/Spiritual Care Coordinator / chaplaincy@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Ajay Khanna – Hindu Benevolent Fund / hbf@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Yogesh Mehra – Hindu Benevolent Fund / hbf@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Sreenadh Bhramapuram – Hindu Celebrant / sreenadh.brahmapuram@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Shanmugapriyan – Karma Kitchen / hkk@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Smt Madhuri Velagala – Education Coordinator / cht@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Smt Nirupama Verma – Education Coordinator / cht@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Birju Bhatt – Hindu Pulse / birju.bhatt@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Mohan Vijayaraghavan – Cultural Exhibitions / mohan@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Smt Neelima Paravastu – Web, Graphic Media & Marketing / editor@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Himanshu Pota – Australian Hindu Conference / ahc@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Ash Agarwal, National Legal Counsel
  • Yashvi Shah, NSW 
  • Jayneil Shandil, Corporate 

Hindu Council Advisory Board

HCA Advisory board

  • Shri Dr. Balasubramaniam
  • Shri Vijai Singhal
  • Shri Kanti Jinna, OAM
  • Shri Nihal Agar, OAM
  • Shri Sanjeev Bhakri
  • Shri Surinder Jain
  • Shri Surender Prasad
  • Shri Vikas Chopra

NSW Team

  • Shri Suresh Vashist – President / nswpresident@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Nitin Jayraman – Secretary / nswsecretary@hinducouncil.com.au
  •  Shri Arjun Mehta – VP / Member Liaison
  • Mohan Vijay Raghavan – VP / Cultural Exhibitions
  • Shri Vikrant Pahuja – VP / Event Governance & Coordination
  • Shri Anand Manickam – VP / AICC & Sponsor Coordination / cenotaph@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Jaydeep Panchal – VP / Infrastructure & President Support
  • Smt Annu Tandon – Joint Secretary / AICC & Cultural / nswjsecretary@hinducouncil.com.au
  • Shri Nikhil Nigam – Treasurer / 
  • Vikas Chopra – Joint Treasurer

Executive Members

  • Smt Bharti Rengarajan – Woman Team/VIP visit help
  • Smt Praveen Sethi- Woman Team/ Cultural
  • Smt Shweta Sharma – Woman Team/ Cultural
  • Smt Sarika Goyal – Woman Team/ Cultural
  • Miss Sakshi Jain- Woman Team/Cultural
  • Smt Aarthi Garg – Woman Team/ Cultural
  • Shri Rahul Rawal – Communication & Online Events Coordinator
  • Shri Sushil Arora – IT Team
  • Shri Akhil Verma- Media spokesman
  • Shri Rohan Sharma – Volunteer Coordinator
  • Shri Vamshi Krishna – Volunteer Coordinator
  • Shri Varun Malhotra – Event Coordinator
  • Shri Manoj Jindal – Event Coordinator
  • Shri Sagar Raghavendra – Yoga Coordinator
  • Shri Dharmendra Modi – Social media and special events
  • Shri Sanjay Pradhan – Social Media and Digital Photography
  • Shri Renga Rajan – Procurement
  • Shri Somesh Sibal – Inventory Controller
  • Shri Tara Sharma – Events Pooja Facilitation & Ramayana
  • Shri Pravin Amin – Member / Priest Liaison
  • Shri Kiran Rane – Logistics and Infrastructure
  • Smt Sri Sansare – Decoration & graphic
  • Shri Manish Sharma – YouTube / Hindu Pulse
  • Shri Nitesh Sethi – Stall Coordinator / AICC
  • Shri Nehru Ahtota – Paada Yatra

Australia Capital Territory (Canberra) Team

  • Chair: tbc
  • Shri Prakash Mehta
  • Shri Kanti Jinna
  • Shri Murali Konneru
  • Shri Roshan Menon
  • Shri Avinash Karpe

South Australia (Adelaide) Team

  • President : Snehal Thaker
  • Secretary: Vani Shukla
  • Public Relations Officer: Dr Viral Jani
  • Social media & Marketing: Sachin Chaudhary

Executive committee:

  • Shri Chirag Trivedi
  • Shri Snehal Thaker
  • Shri Munish Sharda
  • Shri Naveen Chauhan
  • Shri Jagadish Lakhan

Victoria (Melbourne) Team

  • President – Shri Makarand  Bhagwat
  • Secretary – Shri Gurpreet Verma 
  • Treasurer – Shri Vigyan Agarwal – Treasurer,   
  • Advocacy Advisor  – Mr Sundar
  • Melton Interfaith Coordinator – Smt Uma Vijai

Executive Committee

  • Shri Abhijit Bhide 
  • Shri Shripad Kulkarni 
  • Shri Manhar Jajal
  • Smt Poonam Aggarwal 
  • Smt Bhagyashri Chitale

Western Australia(Perth) team

  • President – Shri Damji bhai Koria
  • Joint Secretary – Shri Bijukumar Ji Prabhakaran  
  • Treasurer – Shri  Sandeep Ji Goyal
  • Shri Shashibhai Limabchiya
  • Shri Vijay Kumar Ji
  • Education Coordinator – Shri Mool Bhargav Ji 

Northern Territory (Darwin) Team

  • Chair – Smt Juhi Sharma 

Advisors

  • Shri Manoj Bhati
  • Shri Rajiv Sharma
  • Smt Rama Jayaraj

Queensland (Brisbane) Team

  • President – Shri Jogindra Modi
  • Secretary – Prashant Prabhakar 
  • Treasurer – Raj Ghohil
  • Community Liaison Officers –                                                                                                                                                                           Kiran Varsani, Ashutosh Raina, Anil Sharma
  • Marketing – Sowmya Gouda

 

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