Kapilananda Mondal, the Founder & CEO of Ashok Nilay, a philanthropic social entrepreneur, innovator and Change maker from farmers family, has been a visionary and an enterprising person who has received many awards for his outstanding work on promotion of microfinance, women empowerment, educational and social development in rural Bengal. He is relentlessly working since last 30 years and has been able to impacted lives of socially excluded people of Coastal Sundarban area through his self-sustainable rural dev. and educational and Environmental programmes.

Awarded Ashoka Fellowship for innovation on sustainable social development from Washington DC, USA in 2003

Member of Planning Commission Govt. of India. for 12th five-year plan (2012-2017)