• Entrepreneur.

  • Social Activist.

  • Writer.

Designation

  • Director, Nijhawan Group of Companies
  • President, CKRDT Foundation
  • Former Global Ambassador, IWEC Foundation
  • National Treasurer, FICCI FLO (2020-2021)
  • Co-Convenor, GIA (Group of Intellectuals and Academicians)
  • Treasurer, Ram Lal Anand College, Delhi
  • Member, Governing Body, National Institute of Technology
  • Vice President, School Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
  • Blogger, Times of India
  • Columnist, Punjab Kesari

Member

  • Founder & Co-Convener of ‘Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA)’
  • Governing body of ‘FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO)’
  • RMIT University (Australia) : School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Member of the Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology (NIT)
  • Member of the Governing Body of Ram Lal Anand College, Delhi University
  • Member of ‘Panini Kanya Maha Vidyalaya’ in Varanasi

Introduction

Lalita Nijhawan is an educationist, a social worker, an entrepreneur, and a prolific writer. A President Awardee, she was honoured in 2016 by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India for her phenomenal contribution in the field of education.

Her journey as an industrious persona began well in the pink of her youth and her hat has been brimming with feathers ever since. After completing her post graduation from the University of Delhi, she was only 25 years old when she began her first professional endeavor in the field of education. She established a school in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi successfully for a decade.

Wanting to challenge herself further she ventured into the travel business founding ‘Travel Boutique’. 

Social Work

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Lalita Nijhawan hails from a family that has dedicated their lives and wealth for the welfare of society. She has taken forward this responsibility with complete commitment and vigour. She is also involved in social work such as providing medical and educational facilities to the less fortunate. She is involved in several social projects that include running different centres for skill development in rural areas, orphanages, women’s rights and empowerment. She has concentrated her energies to uplift the poor that live in urban and rural parts of India.

Lalita Nijhawan is in Governing body with FICCI, and has represented Indian women in the U.S. and Canada. She has spoken on Indian Women for the New Jersey Television. During the Second Wave of COVID-19 she spearheaded FICCI FLO’s pan-India mission with 22 Chapters and provided extensive assistance to the masses of India. She convinced FICCI FLO to join hands with Sewa Bharti and expand their mission of help to all. From medical centres that provided vaccine services which continues till date, to provided free medical equipment such as PPE kits, masks and medicine in hospitals & to underprivileged. Many members provided free cooked food distribution, as well as ration distribution to remote areas, the outreach of FLO’s initiative was in Lakhs.

She is the President of CKRDT Foundation that helps different organisations in the country for nation building activities. She has awarded cheque money to national bhajan singers in Mumbai for some years. Mrs. Nijhawan through her foundation has encouraged and helped inter caste marriages to break social stigmas regarding caste differences.

Work with women

  • She is the co-convener of GIA (Group of Intellectuals & Academicians), which was started in 2015. The group takes up different issues which are ailing the country, especially the women of India. GIA held a press conference in Kerala and Delhi regarding the Jisha case, which played a part in the arrest of the rapist.
  • She helps run a girls orphanage in Haridwar, where she assisted in the marriage of three girls in 2005; two girls who also studied in the orphanage have since become teachers.
  • She has been holding seminars in Delhi University and educating the girl students there about different schemes of the Government that can help them become entrepreneurs and understand their legal rights.
  • She helps facilitate skill development and vocational training for women and girls regularly.

Work with children

  • For the past 24 years, she has been working at the ground level for women and the girl-child belonging to the most vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society living in tribal areas. When she started there were no roads to these villages; to hire even one teacher was not possible whereas now, these villages are flourishing in terms of improved societies through education, awareness, and empowerment.
  • Through the Panini Kanya Vidyalaya, Varanasi, she is promoting the learning of Sanskrit among girls for better awareness about India’s culture.
  • She holds personality development classes along with teaching yoga and karate for self-defense for girls.
  • She also ensures that all the facilities that she works with have female toilets.
  • She regularly arranges for medical facilities like vaccinations, polio drops, visits to doctors, etc. and organizes classes about hygiene and sanitation.

Work with women

  • She is the co-convener of GIA (Group of Intellectuals & Academicians), which was started in 2015. The group takes up different issues which are ailing the country, especially the women of India. GIA held a press conference in Kerala and Delhi regarding the Jisha case, which played a part in the arrest of the rapist.
  • She helps run a girls orphanage in Haridwar, where she assisted in the marriage of three girls in 2005; two girls who also studied in the orphanage have since become teachers.
  • She has been holding seminars in Delhi University and educating the girl students there about different schemes of the Government that can help them become entrepreneurs and understand their legal rights.
  • She helps facilitate skill development and vocational training for women and girls regularly.

Work with children

  • For the past 24 years, she has been working at the ground level for women and the girl-child belonging to the most vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society living in tribal areas. When she started there were no roads to these villages; to hire even one teacher was not possible whereas now, these villages are flourishing in terms of improved societies through education, awareness, and empowerment.
  • Through the Panini Kanya Vidyalaya, Varanasi, she is promoting the learning of Sanskrit among girls for better awareness about India’s culture.
  • She holds personality development classes along with teaching yoga and karate for self-defense for girls.
  • She also ensures that all the facilities that she works with have female toilets.
  • She regularly arranges for medical facilities like vaccinations, polio drops, visits to doctors, etc. and organizes classes about hygiene and sanitation.

As an Entrepreneur

Lalita Nijhawan is the Director of Nijhawan Group, and founder of Travel Boutique. Crossing 40 years of experience, Nijhawan Group is the nation’s leading travel conglomerate and has a rich history of successful business partnerships with leading airlines and premium hotels. For over three decades the Group has successfully represented an array of clientele consisting of major international airlines including: British Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, Sama Airlines and Fly Dubai.

Mrs. Nijhawan’s voyage in the field of entrepreneurship began at the young age of 25, since then she has shown remarkable diversity in business acumen and consecutive success in each foray. In her nascent stages of self-driven enterprise her first step was to set up a preschool. With limited resources this school’s journey began from the backyard of her home, holding her ground amidst adversity the school successfully thrived under her purview for 10 years.

  • At FICCI, motivating women to become entrepreneurs

  • At FICCI–taking a course on tourism

  • Speaking on New Jersey TV regarding women empowerment in India

  • With a group of Women Entrepreneur in Toronto

  • With a Minister in Toronto

  • As an IWEC Awardee with the Ambassador of Belgium

  • At the IWEC Awards in New Delhi

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  • Hosting a dinner for British Airways women entrepreneurs in 1980

  • At the opening of the British Airways Office at Chandigarh with Dan Brewin

  • In the office with staff members

  • Hosting a dinner with American Airlines Manager, India in 1980

  • Awarding best dancers at a celebration event in Ahmadabad

  • Awarding best dancers at a celebration event in Ahmadabad

  • At Regatta Boat Race in England representing India

  • With British Airways Agents staff in Jaipur

  • Holding courses in FICCI FLO on tourism

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Challenging herself further, Mrs. Nijhawan ventured into the corporate world under the banner of ‘Nijhawan Travel Service (P.) Ltd.’ In the year 1998, realising a gap in the travel segment she began ‘Travel Boutique,’ an organisation which provided end-to-end travel packages to thousands of travel agents. From providing domestic and international ticketing, to arranging tours, and accommodation at premium hotels, among many other benefits.

Traversing societal nomenclature Mrs. Nijhawan has broken all stereotypes and the results show in the ventures Nijhawan Group has garnered.

Albeit the staggering growth realised under the umbrella of Nijhawan Group, she felt the need to give back to society which has resulted in the undertaking of social action for the benefit of the nation through her trust CKRDT.