Secretary Dr. Manjiri Nimbkar Dr. Manjiri Nimbkar acquired an MBBS in 1981 and ran her own private practice as a general practitioner in an economically disadvantaged area of Phaltan town. She was renowned as a good diagnostician whose charges were reasonable. She founded a school for children with special needs in 1985 and ran it for four years. In 1989 she started the NIKOP Hospital Pvt. Ltd. with a group of doctors in Phaltan.
In 1995, she started working in the Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan (KNB) of Pragat Shikshan Sanstha in Phaltan, founded by Dr. Maxine Berntsen. KNB is an innovative Marathi medium school with classes from kindergarten to tenth. She became the Principal of KNB in 2000 and a Director and treasurer of Pragat Shikshan Sanstha in 2002. She received the Barrister P.G. Patil Memorial award from the Satara District Secondary School Retired Principal’s Association for ideal Principal in 2006.
She obtained an MA in Elementary Education (winning the gold medal) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 2008. It was a distance education course which she completed while working full time.
At school she believes in the development of children along with teachers and guides them accordingly. Teachers from KNB have many times received first prizes in the competitions for innovative teaching practices organized by the Government of Maharashtra.
She has carried out an impact assessment of the Learning Centers Initiative of Vidarbha Cluster and a review of the Educational Programme and Strengthening Youth Groups initiative of Foundation for Education and Development, Jaipur for the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and review of mathematics and language programmes of Gram Mangal in Yeotmal and Chandrapur districts for UNICEF.
She has written many articles in magazines and newspapers in Marathi and English on education. In 2010 she wrote a book called Mulanche Srujanatmak Likhan (Children’s Creative Writing) based on the writing of students in KNB. |