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Educational qualification
 

About Myself
I am Dr. Rekha Mahadeshwar, teaching Business Economics in the Department of Business Economics of SIWS College which I had joined in July 1980.

Educational qualification
I did B.A.(Hons) in Economics in 1976 and M.A. in Economics from University of Mumbai in 1988. I completed M.Phil in the year 1985 and did my Ph.D. in Impact of Capital Inflows under the guidance of Professor M.J.M. Rao, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai.

My Hobbies
I like to read myfavourite books in free time. Nowadays e books are available on the internet on various sites like gutenberg. These sites also have books that are not easily available today. I also like listening to old hindi film songs on my lap top while I am working.

My other interests
Besides teaching in the college, I am also the member secretary of Women Development Cell of University of Mumbai(UWDC).Established in the year 2001, the UWDC provides mechanism to address the complaints of sexual harassment received by the Cell. I have also completed UGC sponsored Sensitization, Awareness and Motivation (SAM) workshop for capacity building of women managers in higher education institutions. This was followed by my training as a trainer for SAM workshop at TISS, Mumbai. I am now a resource person for UGC sponsored SAM workshop for capacity building of women managers in higher education institutions.

participate in involved in creating course content for Institute of Life Long Learning(ILLL). I have also been involved with NCERT as subject expert. During vacations I sometimes work as a resource person with Vidya Bhawan Education Resource Centre, Udaipur. The Education Research centre is an institute under Vidya Bhawan Society. It is doing some pioneering work in improving school education. For the last two years I have attended the Upper Primary Science and Mathematics Workshops as a resource person. These workshops are organized for teachers trainers of Care India. These teachers' trainers group is a dedicated group and it is a real pleasure to work with them. To read more about the activities going out in these workshops read the page on these workshops. Since 2010, I have become involved in training teachers in EasyNow techniques. EasyNow is a bouquet of easy to learn and use software for developing multimedia content. Most of these software are easily and freely available. EasyNow is a bouquet because it is open ended since each user can add more software to it.

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