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  Name & Designation:

 

  Dr. Mahaveer Jain

  Senior Fellow

  M.A., Ph.D. (Psychology)

 

Dr. Mahaveer Jain holds a doctorate degree in psychology from Delhi University. He has served in this Institute in various capacities since 1983. He is an accredited trainer and recognized and  stablist facilitator in organizing and conducting sensitivity laboratories of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS), the only Society that is giving accreditation for trainers in Applied Behavioural Science since 1986. Dr. Jain has served the ISABS in various capacities at national and regional levels.  He has also been a member of various committees on Professional and Social Development in the Society.

He has been trained by International Labour Organisation (ILO) at International Training Centre, Turin, Italy on child labour and also got trained by Department of Personnel, Government of India on Direct Trainer skills. He has 30 years experience working with senior management and union representatives at national and international levels.  He is well known in the field of Child Labour, Bonded Labour, Organising the Unorganised, Applied Behavioural Science, Sensitivity Training, Quality of Working Life, HRD, Motivation, Communication, Team Building and Organisational Development, and developing change agents and internal facilitators.

Dr. Jain has conducted about 100 in-house training programmes for many organizations such as International Labour Organization; UNICEF; Indian Institute of Management, Indore; Indian Navy; Hero Honda Motors Limited; M.V. Foundation, Secunderabad; Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited; Indian Institute of Health Management and Research, Jaipur; Nuclear Fuel Complex, Department of Atomic Energy; Gas Authority of India Limited; Power Grid Corporation of India; Bharat Electronics Limited etc. Dr. Jain has developed several training modules for ILO, UNICEF, and Government of Andhra Pradesh on developing trainers on child labour. He is founder of National Resource Centre on Child Labour at VVGNLI and State Level Centers on Child Labour at State Labour Institutes Kolkata and Bhubaneshwar, Maharastra Institute of Labour Studies, Mumbai; Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad; and Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies, Chennai. He has also served as Supreme Court Commissioner in the year 1989. He has been awarded for his achievements with Indira Gandhi Excellence Award and Rashtriya Gaurav Award. Dr Jain was Technical Advisory Member of Social Concern Area, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi from 1991 to 1998. He was also advisory Board Member of Indian Psychological Abstracts 1983 to 1988 and Awards Digest,(a bi-monthly journal of V.V Giri National Labour Institute containing gist’s o f  high Courts and Supreme Court judgments related to labour)1987 to 1991.Dr Jain is an advisor to State Level committee on Bonded Labour and Child Labour of Rajasthan.

Dr. Jain has conducted 32 research projects of the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute including the projects given to the institute by ILO, UNICEF and FAO. He has authored or edited about 18 books, 24 Manuals on Child Labour and 97 research articles. Dr. Jain has been cited in a large number of national and international biographical reference books. He has edited Annual Handbooks on Human Resource Initiatives for the year 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. 

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Email: mahaveer2002@sify.com