A Ph.D. in Sociology with professional experience of 27 years in water and sanitation sector across 3 countries-India, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea. During the span of my professional experience, I was associated with Rural Water Supply, Rural Sanitation and Solid Waste Management with flagship programmes of the government like Swachh Bharat Mission and Jal Jeevan Mission with the support of Government and Multilateral agencies like The World Bank, UNICEF, Water Aid and CSR programmes of the different corporate houses .My work on rural sanitation in Papua New Guinea was acknowledged by Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) in their 42nd Annual conference at Loughborough University.My key area of expertise is planning, designing, training & capacity building and execution of community-based process, tools and techniques to achieve sustainable development outcomes.