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Project Personnel

Dr. Krishna Vatsa - Director. Dwarka Center

She has previously worked as a teacher in a mainstream school. A Masters degree in Special Education and a Ph.D. specializing in Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) helped her to streamline and initiate projects in the organization. She has organized a Rehabilitation Council of India Course and has been on faculty. She has made presentations in national and international conferences.

Savita Chibber - Director

She has a Masters degree in Sociology and has 18 years of experience in research-oriented employment, collating data, supervision of field staff and documentation of the survey results. She was last with the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which is a teaching hospital, as their field research officer.

Pramila Balasundaram - Founder-Executive Director

She was motivated to found Samadhan by a niece with Downs Syndrome. A postgraduate in English Literature and Semantics and a brief "hands-on" training in Germany helped her to identify lacunae in services in India, particularly for the poor. She has made about 15 presentations in international conferences, authored many articles and received an Award of Recognition from Inclusion International.