Shalini Moghe was an Indian educationist, social worker and the founder of Kasturba Kanya School for tribal children and Bal Niketan Sangh, the first Montessori school in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
13 Facts About Shalini Moghe
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Shalini Moghe was the chairperson of the Bharatiya Grameen Mahila Sangh, Indore, a national level non governmental organization working for the welfare and education of the disabled, orphans, under privileged and the economically weaker sections of the society and was involved with other Indore-based educational institutions such as Prestige Public School and Pragya Girls School.
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Shalini Moghe was born in a middle-class family to Tatya Sarwate, a locally known educationist and a former member of parliament after whom a street in Indore is named, on 13 March 1914 at Indore in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Shalini Moghe graduated in Arts from Karachi, secured a diploma in Montessori education and did advanced training in Juvenile Court and Child Welfare before joining government service.
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Shalini Moghe utilised this opportunity to spread her activities to these areas and founded Kasturba Kanya School in Jhabua.
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Shalini Moghe established a toy library, in 1971, where the poor children below the age of ten had access to educational, scientific, mechanical and constructive toys.
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Shalini Moghe started several other programmes such as child immunization, baby shows, training on child care, toy making, manufacturing of educational equipment, and spinning.
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Shalini Moghe was a member of one of the task forces on pre-primary education under the Kothari Education Commission.
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Shalini Moghe served a working group set up by the Ministry of Education in 1979 on early education as a member.
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Shalini Moghe was a member of the reception committee of the International Solar Food Processing Conference 2009.
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Shalini Moghe was married to Dada Saheb Moghe, a civil servant and she died 30 June 2011, at the age 98 succumbing to old age illnesses.
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Shalini Moghe was cremated at Rambagh Mukthidam, a crematorium in Indore.
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Shalini Moghe was selected for the Nai Duniya Nayika Lifetime Achievement Award 2010 in 2009.