Vinod Raina

**Vinod Raina**
Vinod Raina
	Vinod Raina
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Educationalist & Activist

Vinod Raina (died 12 September 2013) was an Indian educationist. He was a member of drafting of the Right to Education Act.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Career

Vinod Raina resigned from his job at Delhi University to work on education reforms in India.^[4] He was one of the co-founders of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti(BGVS) and All-India People’s Science Network (AIPSN).^[5]

He was a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, Asia Leadership Fellow, Japan, and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Science Writers Association. Dr. Raina worked with the Bhopal Gas Disaster victims and the anti-Narmada dam campaign.

He helped conceptualize the Victims of Development project and co-edited the subsequent volume ‘The Dispossessed’.

Dr. Raina was also a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum.

Death

He died of cancer on 12 September 2013.^[5]

Very few people know he was suffering from cancer for the last few years of his life. During this period, he actively continued his work, and poured energies into the implementation of the Right to Education Act, as well as the various people's groups and policy committees that he was a part of.

Awards and honours

Fellow - Homi Bhabha
Fellow - Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
Honorary Fellow - Indian Science Writers Association.
Asia Leadership Fellow (Japan) in 2002.

Writings /Publications

Books

Making Sense of Community Participation, Community Participation and Empowerment in Primary Education

References

^ Chowdhury, Kavita (4 April 2011). "Only 57 per cent children going to school: RTE Act report". India Today. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ "In a first, women steal literacy lead over men - Hindustan Times". Archived from the original on 6 April 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
^ Ghosh, jayati (1 November 2013). "A life well lived". Frontline. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
^ Top down travails
^ ^a ^b "Cancer claims educationist-activist Vinod Raina". The Hindu. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

External links

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[1] Chowdhury, Kavita (4 April 2011). "Only 57 per cent children going to school: RTE Act report". India Today. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

[2] "In a first, women steal literacy lead over men - Hindustan Times". Archived from the original on 6 April 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.

[3] Ghosh, jayati (1 November 2013). "A life well lived". Frontline. Retrieved 23 October 2013.

[4] Top down travails

[Raina01-5] "Cancer claims educationist-activist Vinod Raina". The Hindu. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

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