Sangita DhalSangita Dhal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Kalindi College, University of Delhi. She has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of public administration, public policyand e-governance. Her doctoral work from the University of Delhi was published as Grassroot Democratic Processes and Women: A Study of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Odisha [2003]. She was awarded the prestigious UGC Post Doctoral Research Award in March 2016 for her work entitled ‘The Prospects and Challenges of E-Governance: An Empirical Study of Information Communication Technology Practices in Odisha’.

She worked as a research coordinator on the theme of ‘Centrally Sponsored Scheme/Integrated Child Development Scheme’ for the international project of Leverhulme International Research Network ‘Continuity and Change in Indian Federalism’, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham and University of Bristol, during April 2015–April 2017.

On 2 October 2019, Dr Dhal was conferred the Gandhi Award by the jury at the University of Delhi for promoting Gandhian values among the youth and fraternity in colleges and departments of the university. She was awarded the Delhi University Innovation Research Project [KC-202] in November 2013 on the topic ‘Evaluating the Socio-economic Changes and Its Political Consequences in the Kashmir Valley: A Study of the Railways Network as a Game Changer’. As a teacher, coordinator and counselor, she has organized social outreach programs with her students for community education and child development in collaboration with Salaam Baalak Trust. Dr Dhal has supervised two PhD scholars from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, and was a member of the Course Revision Committee for Public Administration and Public Policy in the University of Delhi in 2019.

Dr Dhal has contributed several chapters in various books such as New Dimensions in Federal Discourse in India (2021), Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia (2020), Local Governance in India (SAGE Publications, 2019), Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia: Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government (2017), Governance: Issues and Challenges (SAGE Publications, 2016) and Governance and Citizenship (2015). Apart from her active teaching and research work, she has also published several articles in international and national journals on public policy, governance and gender issues, has been invited to give lectures and has presented research papers in national and international conferences. Read More Read Less