Trustees
Poonam Singh Jamwal
Poonam Singh Jamwal is a pioneering educationist, youth marketing expert, and social entrepreneur dedicated to making quality education accessible to every child in India. She is the Founder of the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust (KVMT), which works to preserve and promote Dogri language, literature, and Duggar culture. She is also a founding member and Director at Extramarks Education, one of India’s leading EdTech platforms, where she has led innovations in digital learning for over 18 years.
Poonam began her career as a journalist and played a key role in transforming the Newspaper in Education (NIE) programme, successfully bringing newspapers into mainstream school curriculum and lowering average readership age significantly. She is a Chevening Scholar with postgraduate degrees in education, journalism, and marketing. Over two decades, she has championed the use of technology in education to bridge the urban-rural divide, impacting millions of learners.
Her passion lies in reshaping classrooms, building teacher capacity, and accelerating access to personalized, immersive, and inclusive learning for the “last child in the last row.” Through KVMT, she also champions art and culture as powerful tools for social change.
Goverdhan Singh Jamwal
Goverdhan Singh Jamwal, the esteemed Chairman of the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust, is a dedicated advocate for the preservation and promotion of the Dogri language. As the son-in-law of Kunwar Viyogi, his commitment to the Trust’s mission is both personal and profound. Goverdhan Singh Jamwal's unwavering support for his wife, Poonam Singh Jamwal, exemplifies his dedication to their shared cause.
His passion for the Dogri language is evident in his efforts to share his vision and future plans, aimed at benefiting the people associated with Dogri culture throughout Jammu. Under his leadership, the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust continues to thrive, fostering a deeper appreciation for the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Dogri-speaking community.
Ayushman Jamwal
Ayushman Jamwal is a Senior News Editor at CNN-News18. He completed his graduation and post-graduation in Britain at the prestigious Cardiff University School of Journalism and was inducted into the University’s Honour Roll.
He started writing poetry when he was a student at the Doon School in Dehradun. His first poetry collection, Chameleon Lights, was featured in the top 10 poetry bestseller list of 2017 on Amazon.com.
Ayushman also serves as a Board member of the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust, established to promote and preserve the Dogri language spoken by the Duggar community of the Shivalik foothills. He curates the ‘Cultural Cocktail: Youth For Art’ initiative, a platform for innovation with a focus on the convergence of classical, contemporary, regional, and global literature and art forms.
Rashmi Jamwal
Rashmi Jamwal is a self-taught artist with practice spanning over a decade in various mediums. Hailing from Jammu, she is a lawyer by qualification, but her passion for art took precedence as she became a full-fledged homemaker post-marriage. During this phase, she was irrevocably drawn to the world of creativity and colors.
Her early influences have been the myriad cultural hues, people, and places she has visited. Many of her works have interlaced ancient myths into contemporary art forms. Nature and people have been a constant source of inspiration. She believes in a river-like quality in the act of creation—always seeking, exploring, and dropping the known for the unknown, communicating the joy and beauty of the visual medium beyond the confines of languages.
Anmol Jamwal
Anmol Jamwal is a Jazz dancer with over six years of work experience with the Danceworx Performing Arts. Anmol started training with the Danceworx Performing Arts Company at the early age of 11. He featured in multiple showcases, performances, and music videos with the company and joined it full-time at the age of 19. He performed during the Cultural Cocktail event organized by the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust at Kingdom of Dreams.
Anmol also became a part of the performing cast of Jhumroo, a musical comedy, and performed over 300 shows at Kingdom of Dreams in Gurugram over a period of two years.
The young dancer is now the creator of the YouTube channel Tried & Refused Productions, which works on dance collaborations with various artists, primarily focusing on choreography and stylized performances.
The channel has garnered over 30 million views in a short span of time and has over 75,000 subscribers. For his future endeavors, Anmol plans to expand the channel and collaborate with artists across India to spread and celebrate Jazz on all forms of media platforms.
Anmol is the grandson of Kunwar Viyogi, and he continues to carry forward the legacy of his grandfather through his artistic contributions and involvement with the Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust.
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