Ph.D. (Geography) from Centre for Studies of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; qualified NET for CSIR Fellowship, Visiting Fellow to Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, experience of working with NGOs and Research Institutes on various development issues with special focus on gender, health, education, sustainable livelihood, poverty, tribal development etc., worked as Senior Consultant (Planning) with GOI for District Primary Education Programme, a centrally sponsored and externally funded programme for UPE; coordinated Diploma programme on Educational Planning for six consecutive years, received training on educational planning and management from IIEP, Paris, received training on child rights, classroom and school management from University of Lund, Sweden; received training on Innovative Financing of Education from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; she is presently working on different educational policy issues and developing training programme for state level policy makers, planners and implementers;. Her areas of interests include policy analysis, decentralised planning and management, education of girls an deprived groups; she has conducted field based and empirical research studies on various development issues including education. She has been involved as lead researcher in a DFID funded international consortium on research on Educational, Access Transition and Equity in which NUEPA has been a partner institute with University of Sussex, U.K. She has contributed papers to many conferences i.e. BAICE, BERA, UKFEIT, CIES, IFOR and so on and published papers in many journals and books.    

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