Kushal Raj Chakravorty is the Founder and Managing Trustee of Lotus Petal Foundation. An organization that is committed to running programs that enable children from underserved backgrounds to become knowledge workers.
Kushal has had an illustrious corporate career. His immaculate learning years were supported by an engineering degree from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, and strengthened by an MBA from IIM Lucknow. Kushal’s professional life catapulted with his stint with IKEA which lasted over a decade. Kushal led different global roles in furniture, textile, and carpets and traveled across continents for work. His professional life and travels exposed him to regions within India and overseas that were stuck in acute poverty. The contrast and disparity between the life that he was leading and what he was witnessing burdened him through the years.
In 2011, Kushal established the Lotus Petal Foundation with his own savings to support the education of underprivileged children in his neighborhood. In 2016, he quit his corporate career to be fully immersed in the calling of this life journey.
Lotus Petal is now an established non-profit institution with over 12000+ students, 250+ staff members. The organization not only runs its own K-12 school, skill development centers but also supports remote live teaching in 275+ schools in 18 states across the country.
He has also received the follwoing awards:
1. Economic Times Leadership Excellence Awards 2022 in NGO.
2. Social Entrepreneurs Category, Vishwakarma National Skill Excellence Award 2021 (National Silver), presented by Sh. Manohar Lal Ji, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Haryana, for contribution to Innovative Teaching Pedagogy in Higher Education in the Institution/Industry Category.
3. Mahatma Award 2021 under the Social Impact Category for judicious use of resources, expertise, and the impact created through our work.
4. Mahatma Gandhi award at the NGO Expo in United Nations General Assembly week in New York in the year 2018.
5. Gurugrammers Achievers Award in the year 2018.
Recently, he was recognised with the BIT Mesra Distinguished Alumni Award (2025), celebrating his unwavering dedication to social impact and education.
He also served on the Board of Directors of IIM Amritsar from 2019 – 2025.
Rakesh is a name that is synonymous to "pillar of support" at the organization. Mr. Jetli brings 28 years of corporate experience and first joined Lotus Petal Foundation as a volunteer in 2011.
After eight years of association, he came on board full-time in 2019. Since then, he has taken on responsibilities with exceptional ownership and commitment—most notably overseeing the construction of the Lotus Petal Senior Secondary School in Dhunela, Gurugram.
A committed environmentalist, Mr. Jetli believes development must go hand in hand with respect for nature, not at its expense. Guided by the belief that no obstacle is greater than the purpose, he has kept the school project on track from the very beginning.
Through multiple challenges, he has always ensured that the organization's primary goal of keeping the "Child at the Centre" stays everyone's focus.
Rakesh strongly believes that beyond academic qualifications, children must be nurtured into responsible, educated individuals—grounded in sustainability, disciplined in their efforts, and committed to their goals—so they grow into confident, capable members of society.
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