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'''Vinod Raina''' (died 12 September 2013) was an Indian [[educationist]]. He was a member of drafting of the [[Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act|Right to Education Act]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/only-57-per-cent-children-going-to-school-rte-act-report-131579-2011-04-04 | title=Only 57 per cent children going to school: RTE Act report | date=4 April 2011 | first=Kavita | last=Chowdhury | publisher=India Today|accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/In-a-first-women-steal-literacy-lead-over-men/Article1-679756.aspx |title=In a first, women steal literacy lead over men - Hindustan Times<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2011-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406205505/http://www.hindustantimes.com/In-a-first-women-steal-literacy-lead-over-men/Article1-679756.aspx |archive-date=2011-04-06 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ghosh|first=jayati|title=A life well lived|url=http://www.frontline.in/columns/Jayati_Ghosh/a-life-well-lived/article5236439.ece|accessdate=23 October 2013|newspaper=Frontline|date=1 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Vinod Raina resigned from his job at [[Delhi University]] to work on education reforms in India.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130123004653/http://www.financialexpress.com/old/fe/daily/20000330/fco26034.html Top down travails<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was one of the co-founders of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti(BGVS) and All-India People’s Science Network (AIPSN).<ref name=Raina01/><br />
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He was a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a fellow of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library|Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], New Delhi, Asia Leadership Fellow, Japan, and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Science Writers Association. Dr. Raina worked with the [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal Gas Disaster]] victims and the [[Narmada Bachao Andolan|anti-Narmada dam campaign]].<br />
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He helped conceptualize the Victims of Development project and co-edited the subsequent volume ‘The Dispossessed’.<br />
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Dr. Raina was also a member of the International Council of the [[World social forum|World Social Forum]].<br />
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==Death==<br />
He died of cancer on 12 September 2013.<ref name=Raina01>{{cite web|title=Cancer claims educationist-activist Vinod Raina |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cancer-claims-educationistactivist-vinod-raina/article5122168.ece |accessdate=13 September 2013 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=13 September 2013}}</ref><br />
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Very few people know he was suffering from cancer for the last few years of his life. During this period, he actively continued his work, and poured energies into the implementation of the [[Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act|Right to Education Act]], as well as the various people's groups and policy committees that he was a part of.<br />
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==Awards and Honours==<br />
* Fellow - Homi Bhabha<br />
* Fellow - Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi<br />
* Honorary Fellow - Indian Science Writers Association.<br />
* Asia Leadership Fellow (Japan) in 2002.<br />
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==Writings /Publications==<br />
* [http://www.india-seminar.com/2006/563/563-vinod-raina.htm Where do children go after class VIII?]<br />
* [http://www.india-seminar.com/2005/552/552%20comment.htm The national curriculum framework]<br />
* [http://www.india-seminar.com/2004/544/544%20v.%20raina,%20r.%20kumar.htm Twenty years of relentless struggle - Bhopal Gas Disaster]<br />
* [http://www.india-seminar.com/semsearch.htm Killing the bill]<br />
Books<br />
* [http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book226090/toc Making Sense of Community Participation, Community Participation and Empowerment in Primary Education]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act]]<br />
*[[World social forum]]<br />
*[[Narmada Bachao Andolan]]<br />
*[[Bhopal disaster]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727121954/http://www.arenaonline.org/fellows/archives/000021.html Profile on ARENA]<br />
* [http://conf.hbcse.tifr.res.in/index.php/episteme5/index/pages/view/vinod%20raina Fifth International Conference to review research on Science, TEchnology and Mathematics Education participant]<br />
* [http://www.teachersofindia.org/en/article/tribute-indian-educationist-vinod-raina A tribute to an Indian Educationist - Vinod Raina]<br />
* [http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/225 Blog by Vinod Raina] in World People's Blog<br />
* [https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FRIENDS_of_UP/conversations/topics/87 'Decentralisation of Education' by Vinod Raina]<br />
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