Founded in 1993 by Mrs. Nalini Mukherjee, Dakshini Prayash is a Kolkata-based NGO and school that operates on the principle of empowerment as opposed to charity. They have worked dedicatedly over these years to overhaul the climate of primary and secondary education for Kolkata’s underserved communities, with their first secondary school batch graduating in 2017! Keeping in line the organization's tenets of empowerment, ParticiPlan aims to involve the school community, students and faculty alike, in the understanding and development of targeted intervention that would benefit the school and neighboring communities for a long time to come.