Ashok Khandelwal

Ashok Khandelwal

Ashok Khandelwal is a right based social worker and is currently associated with Right to Food Campaign. He is also working as Rajasthan State Adviser to Supreme Court Commissioners. He studied economics at the University of Rajasthan and was a Fellow at the VV Giri National Labour Institute. In his work span of over 30 years, he has implemented several action research projects with different set of unorganised workers all over the country to promote collective self-action for development. In the recent past he has worked on issues related to seasonal migrant labour, child labour and right to food. His action-research work on Child Labour in Cotton Seed Production has drawn wide attention.