Mr. Chandan Pal

Member

Shri Chandan Pal is the General Secretary, Sarva Seva Sangh and Secretary West Bengal Gandhi Peace Foundation. Shri Pal joined the Gandhian Movement in the year 1964 and had the opportunity to work under the leadership of prominent Gandhian leaders such as Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Lokanayak Jayaprakash Narayan, Sri Dhiren Mazumdar and others. He joined Tarun Shanti Sena, ChhatraYuva Sangharsh Vahini. He participated in the Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement and Total Revolution Movement.He was active in peace movement during Naxalite Movement in 60’s, Nandigram Movement, 2010 and Kokrajhar, Assam 2012 to 2017 besides humanitarian support to the refugees during Bangladesh Liberation Movement, 1971, major Relief and rehabilitation activities among the victims of Super Cyclone in Odisha, 1999, Tsunami in Andaman and Nicobar, 2004.

His main areas of interests are peace and communal harmony, working with students and youth. He is associated with several state and national level organisations and was felicitated with many awards particularly for peace and communal harmony work.