Mr M. Asif Farooqui

Mr Farooqui is an alumnus of Indian Institute of management, Ahmedabad, one of the premier institutes of management in India. He has been the Chancellor’s Nominee to the Court and Member of Executive Council, Aligarh Muslim University. He was also Director of NAWADCO (National Waqf Development Corporation Ltd.), Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. Of India.

With an ambition to contribute to the economic and social development in India, he has been associated with one of the oldest and largest minority educational organisation in India— Anjuman-i-Islam Board, Mumbai founded by Dr. Badruddin Tyabji, 3rd President of Indian National Congress Party. It has built and manages more than eighty institutions from pre-primary schools to graduate and postgraduate level colleges of every discipline. He, along with his family has also been involved with the management of Shibli National College, Azamgarh—one of the oldest institutions of higher education in North India.

As a director of “Tahera & Idris Farooqui Foundation”, he has adopted Schools to impart secular and modern education along with computer literacy and IT skills programs. Through the efforts of his own and his family funds, the foundation has been successful in reviving these schools which were virtually closed. Today, more than 1000 children belonging to poor families and BPL families are attending these schools.

As a Gen. Secretary, Pali Village Residents’ Civic Forum (Mumbai Municipality Reg. No. 117), he has been actively involved in organising the Area Locality Management scheme in Bandra, Mumbai. The schemes has brought all the residents under a single umbrella and organized awareness for civic issues, besides, safe-street initiatives, cleanliness drive and environment protection programs.