Padam Shri Dr Janak reunites with her Mother Baha'i Community of Chandigarh

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  • Janak Palta McGilligan is an Indian Baha'i Padma Shri recipient social worker and the founder-director of Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development, an Indore-based non-governmental organisation working for sustainable community development. She is also a former founder-director of the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women.
    Janak Palta McGilligan was born into a Punjabi family and grew up in Chandigarh. She secured a master's degree (MA) in English literature, political science, Sangeet Visharad in Sitar, an MPhil in political science with distinction, and a Ph.D. She worked at various places during and after her studies, such as the Provident Fund office, the High Court, and the Centre for Rural and Industrial Development. She married James McGilligan, an Irishman, and they served and developed the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women as Baha'i pioneers.
    Janak Palta was director of this institute for 26 years from the day of its establishment 1 June 1985 until she took retirement on 16 April 2011.
    Janak Palta McGilligan is the founder-director of the board of directors of the Barli Development Institute For Rural Women and continues to serve as one of the directors of the board of the institute.
    She has been serving as a director of the Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development. She is a global advisor (member of the Solar Cookers International advisory board in Sacramento, Cal) and co-founder of Jaivik Setu in Indore. She is an honorary secretary of Sangini Cancer Care Society Indore, dedicated to breast cancer patients since 2007.
    She has been a member of Chitrakoot University's management board and has been associated with UNICEF as a resource person for the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, IIM Indore, IIT BHU, Prestige Institute of Management Indore, Indus World School, Choithram International School, Pragya Girls School, MGM Medical College, and Indore Dental College and Hospital.
    (From Wikipedia)

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