Dr Ruma Ghosh Senior Fellow (Faculty) is a Labour Sociologist with a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has more than two decades of experience in conducting evidence based research, preparing capacity building modules and conducting evidence based policy trainings in the area of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Child Labour, Gender Issues and Social Protection of Workers.
Dr. Otojit Kshetrimayum, Fellow(Faculty) is a development professional with 12 years of evidence based policy research, impact evaluation, project management and monitoring, policy and programme design, teaching, training and capacity development in sectors such as Labour and Employment, Social Protection and Livelihood Security, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Informal Economy, Gender and Work, Child Labour, Labour Administration, Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Methods and Self Help Groups (SHGs). He is a Ph. D. in sociology.
Dr Manoj Jatav is working as a Fellow at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. He is the coordinator of the National Resource Centre on Child Labour and associate coordinator of ‘the Centre for Employment Relations and Regulations’ at the institute. He is also the editor of the institute’s quarterly newsletter ‘Child Hope’ and associate editor of the bi-monthly newsletter ‘Indradhanush’. He has more than ten years of working experience in research and training. He received his MPhil. and PhD.
Dr. Sanjay Upadhyaya, Senior Fellow
LL.M., Ph. D. (Law)
Priyadarsan Amitav Khuntia is working as Associate Fellow(Faculty) at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute. He is a first class post graduate in Economics and Public Administration with M.Phil degree in Public Administration. He was selected and participated in the “Young Researcher Fellowship, 2005-06, Progremme” of V.V. Giri National Labour Institute. He was a participant in the “Course on Research Methods in Labour Economics” of VVGNLI in 2004.
Dr. Ellina Samantroy Jena,
Fellow, M.A, M. Phil. and Ph.D., (Sociology) JNU, New Delhi
Dr. Dhanya MB is an economist working as Fellow (Faculty) at VV Giri National Labour Institute. She has more than two decades of research experience in the domain of labour market studies and has done her PhD in Economics on the topic of Self-Employment through microfinance and Rural Women Empowerment (2004-2008). She is the Coordinator of the Centre for Labour Market Studies and Integrated Labour History Research Programme, two of the major research centres of the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI).
