Tuba Khan (Assistant Facilitator)

Tuba Khan is a Teaching Assistant at Digantar. She is in the field of education since 2012. She had worked in the mathematics education group at HBCSE as Project Scientific Officer and Tata Institute of Social Sciences as Program Education Officer. She also collaborated as Educational Consultant in Wildlife Conservation Trust and Gyan Prakash Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education from Mumbai University, and a master’s in Urdu Literature from Purvanchal University.

Dr. Riti Das Dhankar (Assistant Facilitator)

Dr. Riti Das Dhankar has been working in Digantar as Academic and Communications Coordinator for the last 5 years. She has taught English to Middle and Secondary level classes in Digantar. Her responsibilities include overall functioning of Digantar Vidyalay, teacher capacity building, community relations, fundraising and managing communications with potential partners.

Her Educational qualifications are:

• Doctorate in Psychology (topic “Psychological Correlates of Well-Being: A Study of Adolescents”).
• Master’s degree in Psychology
• Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Psychology and English Literature.

Ridhima Garg (Assistant Facilitator)

Ridhima has been exploring the field of education for the past six years. She started studying education formally during MA in Education from Azim Premji University. Prior to her MA, she did Teach For India fellowship in Delhi during which she taught for two years in the government schools. She is interested in studying the society and the individual to imagine the kind of education which is required for the children.

Pragya Shrivastava (Assistant Facilitator)

Pragya is working in education for more than a decade in areas connected with improvement of education in public system. Her experience covers areas of classroom teaching at primary and secondary levels, development of modules on TLMs, planning and holding workshops for teachers in various subjects (especially in Science), and grassroot support to teachers in classroom. She has worked in Eklavya and Azim Premji Foundation. At present she is working as Teaching Assistant in Digantar.

Academic Qualification:

• MSc. in Physics, Barakatullah University, Hoshangabad
• M.A. in Education, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
• B.Ed. Barakatullah University, Bhopal

Rohit Dhankar (Facilitator)

Rohit is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in Azim Premji University, Bangalore; and founder Secretary of Digantar, Jaipur. Rohit has been part of many initiatives in developing material and curriculum through various committees and collaborative efforts across the country. His interest in curriculum for school education and teacher education resulted in collaboration with NCERT and various SCERTs. Interest in education studies resulted in starting Foundations of Education Programme at Digantar in 2005, collaboration with TISS and several NGOs in developing MA Education (Elementary) of TISS, Bombay. He trained as a teacher under David Horsburgh in the Neelbagh School, and taught at the elementary level for about 15 years in a Digantar school he founded with help from Mr. Jitendra Pal Singh and Ms. Faith Singh of Jaipur. Digantar eventually grew into a voluntary organization providing quality education to rural children. Digantar endeavours to nurture self-motivated and independent learners equipped with the ability to think critically. His formal education is graduation in science and master’s in mathematics, school education through indifferently functioning government schools in rural Rajasthan.