Vinayak Lohani is the founder of Parivaar, a humanitarian institution based in West Bengal.

[1] He, inspired by the spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, decided to devote his entire life to serving the ‘Divine in Man’ as taught by Swami Vivekananda.

It has started 832 Nutritional Meals cum Education centers for children in selected impoverished tribal and rural pockets called ‘Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Seva Kutir’ in 18 districts serving more than 40,000 children.

[11] Parivaar also runs 2 residential schools and 2 hostels in the districts of Dewas, Sehore and Mandla of Madhya Pradesh.

[12] Apart from these, Parivaar also runs 93 free 24*7 ambulances[13] across 23 districts and 21 mobile medical clinics in 8 districts covering 982 villages[14] in Madhya Pradesh, under which more than 15 lac patients have been served till December 2024.