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Social
Activist |
Objective:
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To create a progressive and economically sound United
India. A Social worker very committed |
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| Personal Details |
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| Name: |
: Smt. Nafisa Ali Sodhi |
| Date of Birth: |
: 18th January 1957 |
| Address: |
: D- 237, Defence Colony,
New Delhi – 110024 |
| Communication: |
: 9818449999,
: 24694999,
: 55161549,
: 9811997119 |
| Email: |
:
nafisaali@hotmail.com |
| Education: |
: Sr. Cambridge from La Martinere
Girls, Calcutta |
| Family Details: |
Husband: Col. R. S. Sodhi
renowned Polo player and Arjuna Awardee for Polo.
Presently a Real-estate Developer Nationally. |
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Grand Father: S.Wajid Ali
noted Bengali writer , a littérateur and Bar at
Law |
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Father: Ahmed Ali
renowned photographer in India |
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Born to a Muslim father and
Christian mother and married to a Sikh, she is
a family person, a firm believer in the philosophy
of Vedanta and has maintained a fine balance between
her personal and professional life. |
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| ACHIEVEMENTS: |
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- Inter School Athletic Champion, 1973-1974
- An outstanding athlete – National Swimming
champion of India in 1974
- Miss India 1976,Crowned
2nd runner up at “Miss International”
in Tokyo in 1976.
- A noted actress, she has acted in memorable
films such as ‘ Junoon’ and ‘Major Saab’
- Worked actively for the welfare of Army Jawans
for fifteen years while her husband served in
the Indian Army before taking premature retirement.
- She is a committed social worker working
for the welfare of others and has given her
time in totality for charitable causes. She
is First woman, Chairperson of ‘Women’s Commission
Indian Olympic Association’. Executive Member
of ‘Umang Charitable Society’ and Chairperson
‘Action India’ Trust
- When Cyclone struck Orissa causing large-scale
destruction and devastation, Nafisa Ali began
Orissa Cyclone Relief fund. She took part whole-heartedly
in relief works in cyclone-affected state of
Orissa in cash and kind. Relief material in
the form of food material, blankets, clothing
and other essential requirements were provided
to the survivors of the cyclone.
- When the earthquake in Gujarat struck on 26th
January, 2001, realizing the imperative need
for immediate relief in the shelter sector,
she took up the issue of reconstruction of homes,
worked in 48 villages in Kutchh area and constructed
340 huts for the earthquake affected villages.
The largest of the structures built by her was
a Maternity & Child Care Centre at New Dudhai,
Gujarat. The interlocking blocks used
here were nominated for the DesignSense Award,
U.K in the Sustainable Design Award 2001 competing
against Motorola, Philip, and Honda in finals.
- She worked actively in Riot affected Gujarat,
working in the troubled areas for the cause
of peace and religious harmony. She made a heart
touching documentary film on riot-affected Gujarat
by the name ‘Where did we go wrong’
which was sent to all opinion makers of the
country.
- She has worked actively in the field of HIV/AIDS
prevention, awareness and care. She started
a Care Home – ‘Ashraya’ for
people infected and affected with HIV/AIDS.
The Care Home provides holistic care and support
to HIV positive people. She made a documentary
film titled “ United Against AIDS”
- She was on the Board of Laxmi Bai College
as a government nominee and Delhi Public School,
Indirapuram.
- Having a strong mass appeal, she has worked
staunchly for the ideologies and beliefs of
the Congress Party. She was the Executive
Committee Member – Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee.
- As an activist she has fought high-level corruption
scams, taking to the streets to endorse the
various movements such as, for the lack of power
high altitude clothing during the Kargil war,
coffin scams, proving the defense deals need
to be accountable.
- She has actively fought against the state
orchestrated Gujarat Riots, holding the Gujarat
CM, Narendra Modi accountable for the breakdown
of State Machinery. She has raised her voice
at various forums for communal harmony. Narendra
Modi when he was invited for the World Forum
in Delhi had to leave the city without making
any political speeches due to an agitation led
by Ms Ali along with a group was activists.
- She was Chairperson, Congress Human
Rights Commission (South Delhi) .
- She contested from the 23-South Kolkata
Parliamentary Constituency under Congress
nomination in General Elections, 2004
against Mamata Banerjee, President
Trinamul Congress. Though she lost the elections,
she played a vital role in reiterating the secular
sentiment and Congress ideology across the West
Bengal through the extensive media exposure
she got. As she put it “It would have been a
miracle had I won” She represents the Congress
ideology with her secular background.
- She was the Official delegate of India at
the Forty Ninth UN Summit on the Status of Women
held in New York in March 2005.
- She has been appointed by the Government
of India as the Chairperson of Children’s Film
Society of India, for a period of three years
w.e.f. September 2005. CFSI is an autonomous
body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
Government of India. Her role as Chairperson
is to facilitate production, exhibition and
promotion of Children’s films in India.
- She is a Board Member of the ‘Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII), Pune, in the category
of ‘Persons of Eminence Connected with Films
& TV, Education, Journalism, Literature,
Fine Arts, Dramatics, Performing Arts etc.’
- She is very dedicated and hardworking social
activist, with extensive experience in the area
of health, women and child rights, poverty and
social development and had worked consistently
in tandem with NGOs nationally reaching out
to the masses and making a significant difference
in the lives of the marginalized and underprivileged.
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