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
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