The Founder and Managing trustee of Pasumai Trust Mr.Murthy hails from a dalit landless agricultural wage earners family from Kelambakkam of erstwhile Chengalpattu district.  During his 10^th Standard school studies, the local NGO – ICDS headed by Xavier Chandra Kumar had organized motivation workshop for Dalit students for writing 10^th examination to instill self-confidence.  This one day workshop had stimulated his latent social thinking and he was the only one articulated well in the workshop with analysis on root causes of poverty, the caste-ridden unequal social structures and lack of access to productive resources such as land and water.  This had paved a way for unstinting social action and started his community work, for his village from the age of 18 yrs. Influenced by the Dalit Women Empowerment activities of Kala, who is also a distant relative of Murthy, he joined with Ambedkar Makkal Iyakkam- (Ambedkar People’s Movement) as a Dalit Activist.  Due to poor economic condition of his family and no access to higher secondary education Murthy had to drop his studies with 10^th STD.  After completion of school education he started his work in the agricultural filed and brick kiln for daily wage.

At this juncture, he attended workshop on Social Analysis at Soolagiri ROAD training   centre and he was involved in cultural action and preparation of general knowledge pedagogy materials for dalit school students.  Then he started his Social Work as a NFE teacher cum Community Organizer His primary roles in the organization was to provide non-formal education for children and organizing women as Sangams.  Provision of patta in Thaiyur village for dalit marginalized communities and 2km road for a dalit   village called Kazhipattur and mainstreamed 40 dalit children in Eri Ethirvayal in Kanchipuram district were some of the successes he realized.  He mobilized small farmers as an association and supported them to receive ID cards from the government.    

During this time, due to his passion for rights based work not just economic programmes, he joined ECOMWEL to evolve a joint proposal to work on brick kiln child labor and health issues in Thiruvallur. ROAD then asked Murthy to take up this work and Murthy had moved to Thiruvallur.  In 1993 Murthy had joined ECOMWEL as a full timer, and as a social worker he observed that many  workers, women and children engaged in Brick kiln a in and around Aranvayal and initiated contact programmes for children working in Brick kiln.  He was involved in an education programme for the children of Brick kiln workers and mainstreaming them back into school in their native village. The NFE centre was started in Brick kilns, Vakkur village in Villupuram district was identified as the source village of migrant workers.  While working with Ecomwell, Murthy also engaged in other social movement activities like organizing tribal communities engaged in Brick kiln work and Education Campaign started by other Activist Groups and become active member of CACL, Tamilnadu and all India Nirman Mazdoor Panchayat Sangh (construction Workers Union).

Murthy and his colleague Pradeep (Who worked in ROAD) along with the support of Ms. Kala, registered Pasumai Trust in 1993  to work on child labor issues in Brick Kiln full- fledged.  He engaged in mobilizing child labor who worked in Brick Kilns and parents, who were working as contract labor or in other words Bonded Labor as they receive advance money, live in ghettos of brick kilns and they cannot move freely to other brick kilns- thus all of these characters attributed to the bondage. From 1993 to 1998, he engaged in this critical work without any external financial support.