Prof. Janki Andharia
40+ years in disaster studies: teaching, research, fieldwork, and policy leadership.
Four decades of Teaching, Scholarship, Policy, Field action: in Disaster studies & Community work
Prof. Janki Andharia, PhD — integrating gender, environment, and community-led disaster risk reduction
Focus Areas
Participatory Planning & Community Organisation
Transdisciplinary teaching and field immersions that connect coursework with real-world action.
Disaster Education & Capacity
Building
People-centred approaches to reduce risk for marginalized groups and strengthen equitable recovery.
Climate & Urban Resilience.
Evidence-based planning for extreme weather, infrastructure stress, and community adaptation in cities.
Gender & Social Vulnerability
People-centred approaches to reduce risk for marginalized groups and strengthen equitable recovery.
Explore Expertise
URCD
Teaching and mentoring contributions under URCD during this period.
Doctoral Program
Coursework and supervision supporting doctoral research (1985–2006).
Masters in Disaster Management
Core theory, methods, and studio-style projects linked to real field problems.
Supervised multiple Masters/MPhil/PhD dissertations
Guidance across postgraduate and doctoral research in disaster management.
Online Certificate in DM (with IFRC)
Globally attended programme on risk, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Field immersion design & supervision
Structured placements with mentoring to turn insights into practical solutions.
Teaching Gallery
HADR lectures:
Defence Services Staff College and higher command courses
State/municipal trainings (Kerala, Navi Mumbai, etc.)
Supervised multiple Masters/MPhil/PhD dissertations
Training Gallery
Scoping Study on Disaster Management in Pacific Island countries (PICs), under Ministry of External Affairs’ Niti Shakti initiative (Ongoing 2025).
Towards Risk Informed Planning & Programming: A Review of Recent Orders and Notifications Pertaining to COVID-19
DRR and Accountability to At-Risk Population: A study. Three volume Reports have been produced on accountability– at National level, State of Bihar and City of Chennai and submitted to SPHERE and UNICEF, 2018-19.
HRVA- Navi Mumbai, Social Vulnerability Analysis, Vol. I and III, a study commissioned by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and UNDP, 2017.
Democratic Rural Organisations: Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia, 2016. A comparative study of 4 countries- Uganda, Bangladesh, Cambodia and India (Assam) supported by CARITAS Denmark.
Review of Navi Mumbai Disaster Management Plan. A study commissioned by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. November 2014 to March 2015
Building Community Resilience to Disasters in India: Progress, Challenges and Way Ahead, A study for the UNDP, India and Home Department, GoI. Completed 2014.
Hospital Preparedness for Disaster Response in Mumbai, A research study in collaboration with CEHAT, (2013). Examines Hospital Preparedness after 26/11 Terror Attack in Mumbai.
Post Aila Livelihoods in Sundarbans: Towards an Intervention (2010) A Research Project on Post cyclone impact in the eco-fragile region of Sundarbans.
A Situation Report on Nicobar Islands: A post tsunami Assessment, 2008
A Study of Green Houses in China, for comparison in Ladakh, 2006.
Research design for A National Study on Role of Community Mobilisation in Realising Elementary Education, for Child Relief and YOU, an NGO, 2005-06.
Right to Peace and Development: A project aimed at curriculum building on issues related to communalism for the MA programme, 2004.
Study on Cooperatives, Communities and Livelihood in Ladakh, 2006.
Report of the Study Group on “Women Workers and Child Labour”, II National Commission on Labour, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, February 2002.
A Strategic Plan for Rural Development: Institutional Suggestions, Tata Power, 2004.
A study on Rights Based Development for Women supported by ICRW, “An Engagement with Empowerment Approach to Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security”, 2003.
“Community Participation in Disaster Management: An Approach Paper”, prepared for Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, January 2002.
“A Report on Child Labour”, prepared for Study Group on Women Workers and Child Labour of the II National Commission Labour, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, August 2001.
“Rapid Assessment of Earthquake Affected Areas in Kachchh and Saurashtra”, Vol. I & II, (Jointly with GIDR) supported by Government of Gujarat, 2001.
“Social Impact Assessment of a Highway Project”, Udaipur for National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), October 2000.
“Needs Assessment Survey of the Project Affected Households of Barvi Dam”. For MIDC, Mumbai, 2000.
Consultant, Mauritius Research Council for Social Fabric Study Phase I (1997-98) and Phase II (1998-99). This was a policy research on specific areas identified by stakeholders requiring field studies. The study culminated in a major national seminar in August 1999 where findings were disseminated.
Research Consultancy for Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation
“Samarthan: Three years of Advocacy (A Review)”, June-July, 1996, for Action Aid.
Research consultancy for Bombay Metropolitan Regional Development Authority to suggest an institutional framework for Resettlement and Rehabilitation for the World Bank Funded MUTP-II project. This consultancy was carried out jointly in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services. For World Bank through BMRDA, June-December, 1996.
“Beneficiary Response to Low-cost Toilets: An Evaluation (CASP PLAN)”, 1994.
“Concurrent Evaluation of Nehru Rozgar Yojana, Greater Bombay”, (Jointly with Dr. Bhide) for Bombay Municipal Corporation,1994.
“Skilled Artisans in Informal Sector: The Case of Women Embroiders in Gujarat”, Supported by Board of Research Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1989.
“Chawls: Group Housing or Extending Family?” (Jointly with Dr. Panwalkar). Sponsor: Economic et Humanisme, Ministry of Research, France. 1986
“A study on Subhedarnagar, Worli, Bombay”, (Jointly with Dr. Panwalkar). Sponsor: Citizens’ Action Group, Bombay, 1985.
Research Gallery
Member of Steering Committee of TISS on Covid-19 Response since 2020
Mapping exercise in Kuttanad, Kerala, 2018
Accountability to Affected populations, Kerala 2018
Post-Aila Response: Towards an Intervention, 2010Post Tsunami Capacity Building and Citizenship training in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 2005-2009
Post Tsunami Capacity Building and Citizenship training in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 2005-2009
Rural Community Development Initiatives
Rural Community Medicine Programme
Monitoring Social Aspects of Rehabilitation in Select Areas of Gujarat
Consultant Community Participation to Government of Maharashtra:
Swadhar
Udhyam Project
Bhoomi Sena
Subhedarnagar Project, Worli, Bombay
Field Action Gallery
Conference Gallery
Work with Ministry of External Affairs on HADR strategies
Invited to Chair sessions during Shanghai Co-operation, Organisation (SCO)
Member, Working Group on Disaster Management for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017), Government of India GOI.
Member, Committee on Vulnerable Groups, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), New Delhi (2008)
Member, Committee on Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction, NDMA, New Delhi
Member, Induction of Disaster Management Curricula at Higher and Technical level of Education, NDMA, New Delhi (2007)
Member, Third National Commission on Labour, Government of India
Selection and Promotion Committee, Wildlife Institute of India (2018-21)
Board of Studies, Xavier’s Institute of Social Sciences, Ranchi (from 2023)
Board member, Nalanda University
Member, Board of Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Bennett University, NOIDA
International Editorial Consultant, The International Journal of Community and Social Development, Australia
Member, Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Disaster Management and Environment, Japan, Bangkok
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Hazards, UK
Member, International Advisory Board, Community Development Journal, Oxford University Press, UK
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Global Social Challenges Journal, University of Bristol, UK
Advisor, Qualitative Research, Young Lives, A collaborative cross- country longitudinal study (over 15 years) led by Oxford University U.K in partnership with other academic institutions in India (2005- 2020).
External Member, UGC nominee on Advisory Committee, SAP, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Kashmir (for Disaster Vulnerability and Maintain Resource Planning)
Member, Steering Committee, Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network, London, UK
Trustee, Conservation Action Trust (CAT), Mumbai (until 2025)
Patron member, Board, Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development Society, TCSRD, Bombay House, Mumbai.
Member, Governing Board, Academy of Gandhian Studies, Tirupati (2005-2022)
Board of Directors, AASSTHA, Pune.
Member, Board, People’s Science Institute, Dehradun
Member, Review Committee, Tribal Sub-Plan, Government of Maharashtra (2014).
Member, Advisory Board, Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore (2019 onwards).
External Expert, Examiner Courses in MSc Social Development, University of Mauritius, Port Louis, Mauritius (2012-2015)
Academic Reviewer / Referee, for several Journals such as – Community Development Journal, Oxford, UK, Journal of Environmental Hazards, UK. Indian Journal of Social Work, India, The International Journal of Community and Social Development, Australia and son
Membership Gallery
ORCID Id: 0000-0003-0722-531X
- Andharia , J and Anand P (2025 eds. Forthcoming): Shifting Lands, Flowing Waters: Transboundary Water Governance and Risk Informed Planning, Springer, Singapore.
- Andharia J and Lavanya A S (2024 Forthcoming). Building Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Towards Risk Informed Transboundary Water Governance in Andharia J and Anand P (eds) Shifting Lands, Flowing Waters: Transboundary Water Governance and Risk Informed Planning, Springer, Singapore.
- Andharia J et al (2024): Disregarding Risk, in The Great Nicobar Betrayal, curated by Pankaj Seksaria, A Frontline Publications, March, THG Publications Pvt Ltd. Pp 20-23. https://publications.thehindugroup.com/bookstore/Purchase
- Andharia, J., Puri, A., & Namboothiripad, A. (2023). Transforming Post-disaster Recovery: Participatory Mechanisms for Community Feedback and Responding to Government’s Real-time Data Needs with a Focus on Persons with Disability. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 5(1), 47–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221150159
- Andharia, J and Lavanya Arvind (2023) “Vulnerability, Gender and Environmental Stress: Value Contestations in Sustainable Development Discourse”, in Shweta Prasad (ed) . Gender-Environment-and-Sustainable-Development-Challenges-and-Responses This was an invited paper. Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Environment-and-Sustainable-Development-Challenges-and-Responses/Prasad/p/book/9781032628417
- Andharia J. (2022) Vulnerability: its discursive and material nature in McGee, Tara K. and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell (eds). Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Environmental-Hazards-and-Society/McGee-Penning-Rowsell/p/book/9780367427146
- Andharia J ed (2020). Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse book published by Springer Nature, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-32-9339-7?noAccess=true
- Andharia, J.(2020). Thinking about Disasters: A call for intersectionality and transdisciplinary in disaster studies in Andharia J (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore.
- Andharia, J.(2020). Blurred Boundaries, shared practices: Disaster studies and disaster management as an emerging discipline and a field of practice in Andharia (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore. https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Rural-Organizations-Thresholds-for-Evolution-in-Africa-and-Asia/Friis-Hansen-Andharia-Godfrey/p/book/9780367889821
- Andharia, J. (2020). One size fits all? Polemics of Disaster Management from the perspective of post Tsunami experiences of the Nicobar Islanders in Andharia (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9339-7_13
- Lakhani, V., and Andharia, J., (2020) Towards Measuring Resilience of Low-Income Settlements in Cities: The Case of Mumbai in Andharia J. (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore (Pages 285-310). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9339-7_14
- Andharia, J. (2020). A Web of Vulnerabilities: Eco-fragility, poor livelihoods and cyclones in Sundarban Region, India in Andharia (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9339-7_17
- Fernandez L., Das, M., and Andharia,. J (2020) Cascading Vulnerabilities: Food Insecurity among women in disaster -prone areas in India in Andharia J. (ed) Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, Singapore pp.313-335. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9339-7_15
- Andharia , J (2019-20) Disaster Management: Institutionalising Risk Informed Planning, in a special issue titled The Weather Report: The Crisis of Climate Change, IIC Quarterly, Volume 46, 3 & 4 Winter 2019 and Spring 2020.
- Andharia , J (2018) Guest Editor, “Understanding Recovery in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, South Asia Disasters Net, Special Issue No. 175, October 2018. Published by All India Disaster Mitigation Institute…file:///Users/jankiandharia/Downloads/175%20Snet%20Understanding%20Recovery%20in%20ANI.pdf
- Article Titled “Redefining Disaster Recovery – The Multi-dimensionality of the Idea of Recovery”, in “Understanding Recovery in Andaman and Nicobar Islands”, South Asia Disasters Net, Special Issue No. 175, October 2018, Pg. 4 to 6. Published by All India Disaster Mitigation Institute.
- Friis-Hansen, E, Andharia J and Godfrey S (2018) Democratic Rural Organisations: Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia, London, Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315473659/democratic-rural-organizations-esbern-friis-hansen-janki-andharia-suubi-godfrey
- Andharia J and Mathew T (2018) Common Property Resources and Environmental Justice in a World at Risk: What Kerala Has to Offer to Participatory Recovery and What It Can Learn, Social Science in Perspectives, Special Issue on Common Property and Citizens Rights: Issues of Reconstruction of Kerala, Vol.10, No.4: October-December 2018 and Vol.11, No.1:January – March 2019. pg. 408-433.[ISSN: 0975-5497].
- Andharia J (2018) Guest Editor, “Understanding Recovery in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, South Asia Disasters Net, Special Issue No. 175, October 2018. Published by All India Disaster Mitigation Institute.
- Andharia J and Joshi P (2016) Review of Navi Mumbai Disaster Management Plan. A study commissioned by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and UNDP. A Report. Published by TISS.
- Andharia J (2017) The Potential of Regional Integration in Disaster Risk Management and Risk Reduction (Special Report on ASEAN-India Strategic Relations), Diplomatist, 17 (Special edition) 48-51, 2017. https://diplomatist.com/category/special-reports/
- Andharia J (2017) Disaster Management in IORA: Traversing Rhetoric and Reality” (March 2017) in the Diplomatist magazine of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) for its 20th Anniversary celebration to be released at the first IORA Leaders’ Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 7 March 2017. The theme of the Summit, inaugurated by H.E. Joko Widow, the President of Indonesia, was “Strengthening Maritime Cooperation for a Peaceful, Stable, and Prosperous Indian Ocean”.
- John Paulraj and Janki Andharia (2015) Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Disasters: An Exploration of Practices of Konyak Community, Nagaland, European Scientific Journal (ESJ), Special Edition Vol.1, June http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/5718
- “Humanitarian Logistics: A missing link in Disaster Management and Practice”, in Strategic Disaster Risk Management in Asia (eds), Huong Ha, Lalitha S. Fernando and Amir Mahmood published by Springer, London, 2015.
- Factors that Influence Post-Disaster Housing Designs, Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, pp. 19-12, October 2014.
- “Changing Landscape of Disasters in India” in Geography and You, Special Issue on Disasters: Emerging Perspectives, Vol 3, Issue 83, March-April, 2014 p.4- 9. 16.
- All for the want of a horse shoe nail”, an article on humanitarian logistics in the newspaper The Hindu, Chennai edition on 19th July, 2013. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/all-for-the-want-of-a-horseshoenail/article4928677.ece#comments
- Andharia J (2013).“Vulnerability and Disasters: Conceptual contours of a people-centred view”, (2013) A chapter in an book (edited S Parasuraman and Unnikrishnan) titled ‘India Disasters Report II’, Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp. 20-33. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/india-disasters-report-ii-9780198090410?cc=us&lang=en&
- Monica Marie Alzate, Andharia J Gina Agnes N. Chowa, Marie Weil, and Alison Doernberg (2013).Women and Leadership in Development, Planning, Organizing, and Social Change, in (Ed Marie Weil, The Handbook of Community Practice, Second Edition. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, USA. pp. 653-681. https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-handbook-of-community-practice/oclc/809851672
- Uma V and Andharia J (2012). Chronic Poverty Amid Growth: Insights from Long-Term Poverty Trajectories: Young Lives, Working Paper 84, Published November 20, 2012, Oxford University. (co-author). https://www.younglives.org.uk/sites/default/files/wp84-chronic-poverty-amid-growth%20.pdf
- Andharia J and Hardikar N (2012) “Community Organisation and Community Research: Women’s struggle for food security in India”, in Community Research for Participation: From theory to Practice a book (edited Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore) , Policy Press Bristol UK. , Chapter 16, pp. 253-267
- Andharia J (2011). “Sustainable Livelihoods: tribal Island Eco-systems” in Risk Returns, pp.149-151, Tudor Rose, UNISDR. An edited volume. https://digital.tudor-rose.co.uk/risk-returns/#
- Andharia J (2011). “Fieldwork Education in Community Organization: Privileging the Process of Political Engagement”, Community Development Journal, Vol. 46, Issue 1, Pp. i96-i116, 2011. https://academic.oup.com/cdj/article-abstract/46/suppl_1/i96/370073?redirectedFrom=PDF
- JTCDM Working Paper Series (Editor since 2007). Four papers are brought out every quarter after peer review. Twelve papers published.
- Andharia J and Lakhani V (2010). “Towards Disaster Resilience Index for Vulnerable Communities in Mumbai”, JTCDM Working Paper No. 12, JTCDM, Mumbai, February 2010. https://www.academia.edu/39462541/Towards_Disaster_Resilience_Index_for_Vulnerable_Communities_in_Mumbai
- Andharia J (2009).“Critical Explorations of Community Organization in India”, Community Development Journal, Special Issue, Vol. 44, No.3, Oxford Journal, UK, July 2009, pp. 276-290.
- Andharia J and Sunil DS (2009). “Higher Education in Disaster Management: The TISS Experience”, Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management, Japan, Vol. 1, 2009, pp. 79-91.
- Andharia J (2009). “Vulnerability in Disaster Discourse: A Conceptual Review”, JTCDM Working Paper Number 6, February.
- Andharia J (2008).“Polemics of Disaster Management and Development: Post Tsunami Experiences of the Nicobari Islanders”, at TISS”, JTCDM Working Paper Number 6, August.
- Andharia J and Sunil DS (2007) “Curriculum Building in Disaster Management: A Process Document of Evolving a Masters’ Programme at TISS”, JTCDM Working Paper Number 2, August 2007.
- Andharia J, Bidisha Fouzdar and Mohan Rao (2007).“The Nicobar Islands: A Long Way to Go”, JTCDM Working Paper Number 1, May.
- Andharia J (2007).“Reconceptualizing Community Organization in India: A Transdisciplinary Perspective”, in Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspective, edited by Alice K Johnson Butterfield, Yossi Kaazim – Korosy, Haworth Press, USA 2007. A Book
- Andharia J (2006).“Laws and Environment: Coastal Regulation Zone”, pp. 211-234. In Mumbai Vision 2015: Agenda for Urban Renewal, ed. By R. Swaminathan & Jaya Goyal, Macmillan, Mumbai 2006.
- Andharia J (2003)“Disaster Risk Reduction through Development Orientation in Disaster Management: The Significance of People’s Participation in India”, in Sahni, P. and M. Ariyabandhu (eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia, Prentice Hall.
- Andharia J (2002).”Institutionalising Community Participation: The Challenge in Disaster Management Practice”, Indian Journal of Social Work, special issue edited by Surinder Jaswal, Vol.63, Issue No.2.
- Andharia J (2002). “Institutional Response to Disasters: Changing Contours of the Role of an Academic Institution”, Indian Journal of Social Work, special issue edited by Surinder Jaswal, Vol.63, Issue No.2.
- Andharia J (2002). “Infrastructure Projects: R&R in Urban Areas”, EIA Quarterly, Issues 10 &11, pp.19-21, 32, March 2001.
- Andharia J (2000). “Imperatives of Globalisation: Challenges for Social Work Educators” in 7th Biannual European IUCISD Conference on Social Work and Social Development: New Trends in the Changing Europe, Riga, Lativa: Attistiba, September 2000 (edited by Prof. (Dr.) Lydia Shilneva and Prof.Roar Sundby). A book
- Andharia J and Parikh Alka (2000). “Integrating the Environment Agenda in Development Intervention” in Social Work Review, Special Issue on Social Work Profession, Faculty of Social Work, Vadodara, May.
- Acharya S, Sharma, RN and Andharia J (1998).“Social Fabric in Mauritius, Phase I”, A workshop report published in the form of a book by Mauritius Research Council, September 1998.
- Andharia J (1998). “Environment Movements: Global Issues and Indian Reality”, Indian Journal of Social Work, Vol. 59, No. 1, Jan 1998, Part II.
- The above article was also published in a book titled “Towards People-Centered Development (Part-II), edited by M. Desai et al, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1998.
- Andharia J (1996).“Responding to Emergencies and Disasters: Enhancing the Relevance of Social Work Curriculum”, Kayakalp, Vol 1, No. 2. January –June 1996. (Centre for Educational Innovation, IIM, Ahmedabad).
- Andharia J and Bhide A (1994).“Tribals in Bombay”, Maharashtra Times, 17th April.
- Andharia J (1994).Book Review: Title of Book: Environmental Problems in Third World Cities, by J. Haardoy, et. al in International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2-3 (1994).
- Panwalkar VG and Andharia J (1987). “The Chawls in Politics of Urban Management”, Vol. I (ed.) by Jean Claude Lavigne, Publisher: Economics et Humanisme, Ministry of Research, France.
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Policy
Prominent among her policy engagements at the national level are her membership to the Group on Women workers and Child labour, IIIrd National Commission on Labour, Government of India (2000), The Swaminathan Committee on Coastal Regulation Zone (2004), and the Committee Reviewing the Tribal Sub-Plan in Maharashtra (2015), among others. She has been invited as an expert to serve on several of the National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA) sectoral committees constituted to develop policy guidelines. She was a member of the Working Group on Disaster Management for the 12th Five Year Plan (GOI). She is regularly invited to deliver a lecture on Humanitarian Action and Disaster Relief (HADR) at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and within various higher command courses of the armed forces. More recently she was invited to chair a session on HADR at the high-level multilateral meeting hosted by India, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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1990-93: Awarded the Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship in the year 1990-93 to pursue her doctoral studies from School of Environment Sciences, University of East Anglia, U.K. in the area of Gender, Development and Environment.
2014: Professor Andharia was accorded the “Best Professor in Disaster Management Award”, by National Education Leadership Awards, of Lokmat, at a function held at Taj Lands End, Bandra, Mumbai.
2014: was awarded The Bellagio Center Residency, where she was invited to apply in 2013. For over six decades this programme is promoted as a means for exceptional individuals to unlock their creativity and advance ground breaking work.
2015: Recipient of an award for outstanding contribution to education at the World Education Congress Global Awards for Excellence in Education, Leadership and Teaching on 23rd July, 2015 at Mumbai.
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