NAB India Centre for Blind Women & Disability Studies

Awards & Recognition

Awards

Shalini Khanna Receiving

Top 75 'Women transforming India' Issued by NITI Aayog and UN in Mar 2022 for social entrepreneurship for social entrepreneurship

Ms. Shalini Khanna Sodhi received this prestigious award being one of the 75 enterprising women entrepreneurs of the country who were felicitated as Women Transforming India by Niti Ayog and Women Entrepreneurship Platform. We highly appreciate the diligent and remarkable contributions of each woman working towards their respective vision and mission of transforming India.

Shalini Khanna receiving Rashtriya Prernadoot award - Issued by Ministry of social justice, Depwd, Govt. of India and Family of Shirdi Sai in Dec 2021

Rashtriya Prernadoot award - Issued by Ministry of social justice, Depwd, Govt. of India and Family of Shirdi Sai in Dec 2021

The Family of Shirdi Sai Baba awarded Ms. Shalini Khanna Sodhi, under the category of Best Social Worker for her diligent work towards visually impaired women.

Shalini Khanna Lions club services award Issued by Lions Club in Aug 2021

Lions club services award - Issued by Lions Club in Aug 2021

๐๐€๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐–๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฃ๐ข ๐‹๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ค๐š ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐, ๐‹๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ก๐ข ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ.

Best NGO with Innovative Ideas 2020

Under the able leadership of Mrs. Sodhi, the Founder Director, NAB India Centre was awarded Best NGO with Innovative Ideas 2020ย in the โ€˜Ekam Festโ€™ from 2nd to 9th March 2020 in New Delhi, organizedย by National Handicapped Finance Development Corporation (NHFDC) for the PwD.

outstanding service to the Community RTE, Jury on National Award

Award for purpose 2015ย  WESS Foundation and Paras Hospitalsย ย For outstanding service to the Community RTE, Jury on National Award

Woman's Achiever's award 2015 - Issued by Dainik Jagran, Delhi in Mar 2015

Woman’s Achiever’s award 2015 Dainik Jagran, Delhi for outstanding service to the Community.

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Recognition

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

Mrs. Shalini Khanna Sodhi has been offered theย Membership of Governing Body of Skill Council for Persons with Disabilities(SCPwD) established by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Govt of India since its inception in 2016, to represent the cause of blind women of India and mainly to drive policies for better occupation possibilities for the visually impaired in India.

Member of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Committee (POSH)

Offered the role of theย Member of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Committee (POSH) in 15 large corporates and govt departments for the last 15 years till now for justful investigations of cases of harassment against women at the workplace

Speakerย andย Resource mobilizer for Visually Impaired

Mrs. Sodhi has been invited as a Keynote Speakerย andย Resource mobilizer for Visually Impaired India at many Indian Diaspora events organized by the American Aid Foundation in California, Dallas, and Boston, New York, USA in 2014 and 2017

guest speaker in seminars

Mrs. Sodhi has been aย guest speaker in many seminars, conferences, talk shows, and forums at IIT, NHFDC, IGNOU, All India Radio, Gyan Vaani Govt of India, McKinsey, NHK channel Japan, Radio Udaan, Sri Venkateswara College, IP College, Kalindi College, Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University and Amity University to name a few.

Moderated symposiums โ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ฆ Nasscom, AIF, CII

Mrs. Sodhiโ€™s interviews have been published in national dailies and magazines, like Times of India, India Today, Hindustan Times, Femina, Womanโ€™s Era, Indian Express, etc. featuring Mrs. Shalini Khanna Sodhiโ€˜s untiring efforts for the upliftment of Blind women

Mrs. Shalini Khanna Sodhiย was featured by CNB

Mrs. Shalini Khanna Sodhiย was featured by CNBC continuously for one monthย for her enterprise, bringing income generation for blind women in India.

NAB India Centre

Mrs. Sodhi has enabled NAB India Centre to exclusively partner for research and development for VI women with the National Handicap Finance Development Corporation, National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD), RCI, Indira Gandhi National Open University, MacArthur Foundation, Delhi Police and Jamia University, American India Foundation among many others.

1064 services for the blind

NAB India Centre was given the huge task of identifying and documenting all theย 1064 services for the blind in India and launching a portal of directory of these services for the National Institute of Visually Handicapped (now NIEPVD), Govt. of India