Chitra Sarwara


Chitra Sarwara is a second generation politician. She is affiliated to Indian National Congress. She is presently holding the post of National General Secretary and Social Media Incharge of All India Mahila Congress. She has also served as Senior Vice President, Spokesperson and Coordinator for Observers and Co-observers of Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee.
She was elected as a Corporator of Ambala Municipal Corporation, Haryana, on 13th June 2013.

Personal life

Her grandfather Hazara Singh Sarwara was an English and Urdu teacher and Grandmother Chinto Devi, a homemaker.

Parents

Chitra Sarwara was born on 18 March 1975 at Ambala Cantt, Haryana, to Nirmal Singh and Naib Kaur. Her father is a member of Indian National Congress and a four times elected representative of Naggal Constituency, Haryana. He has held the office of Minister of Animal Husbandry, PWD and later Minister of Revenue.
She has three siblings- brothers UdayVir Singh, Chetak Singh and sister Noor Sarwara.

Spouse

Chahal, an international Professional Golfer and Son of Col. Niranjan Singh.

Children

The couple has two children, a daughter and a son. Their son was born with a rare and fatal disorder, biliary atresia that would affect and damage his liver completely. In December 2016, when he was merely 8 months old, Chitra donated her liver to her child.

Education

She has done her early education from Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala and Bhartiya Public School in Ambala Cantt.
Later joined and completed her schooling from Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai, Sonipat in 1994.
She is a National Volleyball player, winning many State and National titles as a part of the Rai team. She represented Haryana in the National School Volleyball Championship in Purnia, Bihar in 1993 which was won by the Haryana team. She has attended India Camp in Bangalore and represented India against Sri Lanka in 1994 in volleyball matches.
She has graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2000 as an Industrial Designer specializing in Furniture design.

Career

She has worked with Tesseract Design in Bangalore and then went on to Idiom Design and Consulting Banglore. In Delhi she worked as an independent Design consultant and eventually as Design Head of the Delhi office of Idiom Design and Consulting.
While with Idiom Design and Consulting, she was Design Manager for developing the 2010 Commonwealth Games Image and Look program which involved developing the games branding from Logo to application of Image and Look program across city and collaterals.

Political career

The Light Within

The Light Within : Launched as an informal professional and social networking platform for the woman power in Ambala.
Idea was to get women professionals, achievers and contributors from diverse fields to work together, pool efforts and do something to make a difference for bettering our lives and society.
Later on TLW Transformed into Nari Shakti with wider base and more widespread activities.

iHELP- Welfare Information Helpline

iHELP- Welfare Information Helpline: In 2013, collaborating with enthusiastic youngsters and Team Suraksha team. It's a toll free Social Welfare Information helpline, where anyone can call and receive details of various Social Welfare Schemes provided by Government of Haryana and correct information on Forms, due procedures, offices involved.

iHelp camps

iHelp grew from a mere helpline to iHelp camps where teams led by Chitra would visit an area, complete with free forms of schemes, printers for scanning documents and stamps for sign and have mass form verification/ filling camps for all those who needed to apply for any government scheme.
iHelp still continues as a toll-free call service.

Social activities