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SEBS-North America has formed the Nationwide Scholarship Program-North America (NSP-NA) under Rupendra dai's (766B) leadership to support the NSP team in Kathmandu and to work as a liaison between SEBS-NA and the NSP. One of the major goals of the NSP-NA team this year is to coordinate with NSP and the Santi School Project to construct a school in Ramche, near Barabise.

Below are short profiles of the NSP-NA team members. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding NSP-NA, please email sebsna@sebsonline.org. Of course, if you have general questions about the Nationwide Scholarship Program, you should email nsp@sebsonline.org.

NSP-NA Executive Team--

Bisundev Mahato (707B)

While in BNKS, Bisundev got involved with what was then "Rural Health Club". "My only job at that time was to distribute "jeevan jal," Maithili and Nepali health books (provided by the senior dais of the club) to the locals of my village when I was in long vacations," Bisundev recalls. Sometimes he was asked to conduct small surveys involving the local health care workers and villagers. He also held small discussions with the villagers to help them read and understand what was written in the books distributed to them.

When in grade 8, Bisundev started the “Samaj Utthan Club” in his village. After graduation from Budhanilkantha School, he taught at various schools in Nepal before pursuing Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island - he later transferred to Harvard University to study economics. After a brief stint in consulting, he is currently working at Columbia University as a Senior Economics Programmer; mostly, in areas of health policy and management. Driven by concrete, result-oriented efforts, Bisundev looks forward to working with NSP-NA to achieve just that.

Laxman Udas Pandey (328B)(Treasurer)

A true pillar of the SEBS network, he has been involved with SEBS, NSP since 1992, including his contributions as a chairman for NSP. He was also instrumental in the proposal part of the Doko Dai Mobile Library. After completing his MBA from University of Dayton, Ohio, he is now working as a mortgage consultant & a branch manager for SAI mortgage, a real estate firm in the Metro Washington, DC area. He is also the treasurer of SEBS-North America

Rupendra Pant (766B)(Chairperson - NSP-NA, International Coordinator-NSP)

After graduating from Budhanilkantha, Rupendra went to Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated in Economics. In a year-long academic leave, as a student, he taught economics in Nepal, and also did internships with the FNCCI and SAWTEE, where he switched career goals for the citizen sector. Currently he works as an Operation Analyst with the national association for Bail Agents. He is also an executive member of the SEBS-NA.

Hari Sharma (353C)

A double major in Economics and Mathematics from the class of 2008 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, Hari joined SEBS-NA executive committee last year.

Pranita Sharma (798B)

After completing her O-Level and A-Level courses at Budhanilkantha School, Pranita went after bigger challenges in Grinnell College in Iowa, from where she graduated with a B.A. in International Relations in 2002. She then worked for the Academy for Educational Development, in DC before going to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) where she graduated in December, 2005 with a Master's degree in Marketing Research. Since then, she has been working at Takeda Pharmaceutical in Chicago as an analyst for the primary market research team.

Vidhan Rana (349C)(Secretary)

Since Graduating from Budhanilkantha School in 2003, Vidhan is pursuing Economics and Business Management in Hope College, Holland, Michigan. Currently, he is doing internships for two non-profit organizations, FINCA International and One Economy Corporation, in Washington, DC.