Brief CV Pro VC
Brief CV Pro VC
Brief CV Pro VC
Vandana Chakrabarti
Prof. Vandana Chakrabarti who is currently the Pro vice chancellor of SNDT Women’s
University has been with this University for two decades. Before joining as a Pro vice
chancellor, she was the Director of the Department of Continuing and Adult Education and
Extension Work. She was also Head in-charge of the Department of Social Work. She was a
BCUD Director for a short while in 2005-06. From 1993 to 2002, she was Honorary Director
of Population Education Resource Centre. She taught in the Bharathidasan University in
Tamil Nadu before joining SNDT Women’s University.
Educated in West Bengal, Kerala and Maharashtra, Prof. Vandana Chakrabarti has a Ph.D. in
Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. A gold medallist from the
University of Kerala, Prof. Chakrabarti was a recipient of National Merit scholarship for M.A.
and UGC fellowship for Ph.D.
Prof. Chakrabarti was instrumental in starting two post graduate programmes, M.A. in Non-
Formal Education and Development and Master of Social Work in the University. Under her
leadership the Department of Continuing and Adult Education and Extension Work carried
out a large number of community based courses and training programmes which reached
over 6000 people annually. These were often conducted in collaboration with other
departments, colleges and even NGOs.
Prof. Chakrabarti who has several publications to her credit, has carried out a large number
of research projects for national and international organisations including a multi-centric
project in India, Thailand and Philippines. She has gained vast field experience not only
through the departmental extension activities but also due to the evaluations of Total
Literacy Campaigns, Post Literacy Programmes, Continuing Education Programmes and Jana
Shikshan Sansthan scarried out by her along with her colleagues for over past fifteen years.
Prof. Chakrabarti was able to visit and learn from the excellent projects that she had a chance to
study as a member of the jury of several awards committees such as Janakidevi Bajaj Puraskar,
UNESCO – NLM Awards, Satyen Maitra Memorial Literacy Award, Committee for up-gradation of
State Resurce Centres and so on. Her contribution to improving policy and programmes in the
area of Adult Literacy and Continuing Education need special mention. She has contributed
as a member of several committees of the National Literacy Mission. She was a Governing
Board member of SRC, Programme Advisory committee member of JSS as well as a member
of SLMA of Maharashtra. She has been associated with UGC and NAAC for more than a
decade.
Prof. Chakrabarti has been on every statutory body of the university such as the Faculty,
RRC, BUTR, Board of Examinations, Academic Council, Management Council and Senate.
In 2002, under the leadership of Prof. Chakrabarti, the Department of Continuing and Adult
Education and Extension Work of SNDT Women’s University received the NLM-UNESCO
award for excellent contribution to the field of Adult Continuing Education.
Prof. Chakrabarti enjoys cultural activities such as dance, music, drama and above all,
travelling to interesting places within India and abroad. She is fluent in English, Hindi,
Bangla, Marathi and understands several other Indian languages.