Name & Designation:

  Helen R. Sekar

  Fellow, V. V Giri National Labour Institute

 M.A. (Presidency College, Madras)

 M.Phil. (Madras Christian College, Madras)

 Ph.D. (Madras Christian College, University of Madras)

 Specialization:

 Public Administration

 Primary Area of Interest:

 Child Labour

 Labour Administration

 Urban Informal Sector

  Local Governance

 Public Policy

 Girl Child Labour in the Match Industry of Sivakasi (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

 Child Labour Legislation in India: A Study in Retrospect and Prospect (UNICEF Sponsored

    Project).

 Child labour in Moradabad Home-based Industries in the wake of legislation (UNICEF

    Sponsored Project).

 Panchayati Raj Institutions and Child Labour : A Case of Tamil Nadu

 Child Labour in Home - Based Lock Industries of Aligarh (ILO-IPEC Sponsored Project)

 Child Labour in the Knife Industry of Rampur (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

 Evaluation of National Child Labour Projects (Project of the Ministry of Labour)

 Child Labour in Hazardous Industries: The Case of Slaughter House and Allied Occupations

 Child Labour in Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Ragpickers in NOIDA

 Effects of Technical Change and Industry Restructuring on the Demand for Child Labour

    (Project of the International Institute of Labour Studies (IILS) and ILO)

 Gender Specific Insecurities and Vulnerabilities of Informal Sector Workers: A Study of Street

    Vendors of NOIDA (Project of the ILO)

 HIV/AIDS and its Implications for Child Labour: A Case of Delhi

 Evaluation of Training of Trainers Programme on Child Labour (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

 Exploring Child Labour Issues: An Abstract Series

 Child Labour in the Textile Units of Surat (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

 Organising Rural Labour for Effective Participation in Development (Action Research Project-

    Tamil Nadu component)

 Child Labour in the Textile Units of Varanasi (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

 Child Labour Law: An Overview (Second Edition) (ILO-IPEC  Sponsored Publication)

 Books and Articles published in Journals of National and International Repute on Issues of

    Labour, Education, Public Policy, Local Governance, Child Rights, etc

 At Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

• Social Services: Design, Delivery and Impact (World Bank Project)

• Government and Voluntary Action :Interface

• Public Policy and Poverty Alleviation

 At Centre for Research on New International Economic Order (CRENIO), Madras

• Assessment of Beneficiary Needs and Attitudes of Family Welfare Services in Madras Slums (World Bank Project)

 Organised various Lectures, Seminars, Workshops including:

• Situation of working Children in Tamil Nadu (UNICEF)

• Designing Curriculum Course Content and Textual Material for Vocational Training for Children in Special Schools in National Child Labour Projects (INDO-USDOL, ILO)

• National Consultation on Child Labour Strategies : Gaps and Opportunities (UNICEF)

• Consultative Workshop on Developing Effective Mechanism for Implementing Indo-US-DOL Project on Child Labour (ILO)

• National Child Labour Project: Policy and Options

• Combating Child Labour: Initiatives and Challenges Ahead

• Child Labour in Domestic Settings

• Globalization and Child Labour

 Books

• Hard Labour at Tender Age (ILO-IPEC  Sponsored Publication)

• Girl Child Labour in the Match Industry of Sivakasi: No Light in  their Lives  (UNICEF Sponsored Publication )

• Child Labour Legislation in India: A Study in Retrospect and Prospect (UNICEF Sponsored Publication)

 NLI Research Series: 

• Child Labour in Moradabad Home-Based Industries in the wake of Legislation

• Child Labour in Home-Based Lock Industries of Aligarh

• Child Labour in the Knife Industries of Rampur

• Child Labour in Hazardous industries: The Case of Slaughter House and Allied Occupations

• Child Labour in Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Ragpickers in NOIDA

 Booklets

• Ensuring Children their childhood (UNICEF Sponsored Project)

• Towards Elimination of Child Labour

• Child Labour in the Match Industry of Sivakasi (UNICEF Sponsored Publication)

• Situation of working Children in Tamil Nadu (UNICEF Sponsored Publication)

 Articles:

• 37 Articles on issues relating to Child Labour, Public Policy, Local Governance, Occupational Health, Labour Legislation, Education, and Child Rights published in Journals of National and International Repute

 Research Work Commented in National Dailies including Hindu, Indian Express, National

    Herald, Asian Age and several vernacular Publications

 Coordinator, National Resource Centre on Child Labour

 Editorial Board Member, Awards Digest (Journal of Labour Legislation)

 Coordinator, Child Labour Legal Studies Cell (ILO –IPEC)

 Member, Core Advisory Group for drafting Child Labour Prohibition Bill, 1998

 External Examiner on 8 occasions for M.Phil and Ph.D Dissertations of Delhi University,

    Madras University and Jawaharlal Nehru University

 Have been Guest Faculty/Resource person on Courses/Training Workshops organised by:

• Indian Law Institute

• Institute of Home Economics, Delhi  University

• Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University

• Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies.

• Maharashtra Institute of Labour Studies.

• Indian Social Institute

• Haryana Institute of Public Administration

• Institute of Applied Man Power Research

• Indian Institute of Public Administration

• Indian Council of Child Welfare

• Gandhi Peace Foundation

• All India Trade Union Congress

• Institute of Social Sciences

• Himachal Institute of Public Administration

• National Open School

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

Tel (O): 0120-2411533, 2411535,9818832093

Tel (H): 0120-2412355

Fax: 0120-2411536

Email: helen_sekar91@yahoo.co.in, helen.sekar@rediffmail.com