Affiliations and Achievements:
• Consultant for the study/ survey supported by Fleet forum,in Jawahar nagar slums of Jaipur
• Member of interagency working group constituted by Fleet Forum for road safety to bring in the community and government perspective.(Fleet Forum is the first independent knowledge centre, focused on issues surrounding transport in low and middle income countries. An interagency association that serves as an interface between stakeholders focusing on a foundation of three interdependent pillars of transport activity as it affects humanitarian aid and development: Efficient and Effective Humanitarian Action, Improved Environmental Impact, and Increased Road Safety and Security) One of the overall drivers of Fleet Forum is to enable humanitarian agencies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
• Committee Member of the complaints committee for Sexual harassment at work workplace with respect to Western Railways. INDIA.
• Advisor to State Institute of SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Jaipur
• Founder member and Joint Secretary to the State women resource centre, Rajasthan; INDIA
• Member of the alumina association of Durham University Business School U.K (DUBS)
• Member in the managing committee at St. Angela Sophia convent school at Jaipur.
• Member on the training (Swayam Siddha) expert team at country level in NIPCCD, INDIA
• Member of the core group with the government of Rajasthan Health Department for NACP 111.
• Ex officio member Secretary of state level autonomous body-SCA (Society for Convergent Action), headed by Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan Dept. of WCD, Jaipur, up to 2003 November.
10. Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.)
Knowledge of standard computer software and software for social development works, presentations etc.
• As a mentor and guide to the students for the University of Bratislava; Slovakia through a distance teaching and learning mode in September to December 2009 and in October to December 2011. A group of students learnt how to develop the project. The students worked on the finer details very close to the log frame approach with real demographic indicators. The projects prepared were then evaluated and counted towards their grading in a semesters in their university.
• Almost 15 years of practical and action research experience on sensitive Development issues, specialising on child labour the right approach, adolescent girls’ issues in development and life skills, women empowerment and so on.
• Educational and official visits to England and other parts of Europe in 1998, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Conducted specific training programmes for women in rural and semi urban areas of rajasthan. These were on civic education, empowerment of women as volunteers and helper for others in their own villages. knowledge and practical training and skills were provided through the consistent periodic trainings on issues of relevance to them on a day to day basis.
Sanganer has been developed as a model block and all women sarpanches, front line workers, would be elected women representatives were given trainings through these seminars in the villages in their panchayats and some of the volunteers came on a monthly basis to Jaipur and were trained here in public speaking, getting to know the practical aspects of bottle necks in implementing the government programmes, how to resolve them, how to fill in the forms to get the benefits under various schemes and so on.