Executive Director

Ms Sana Siddiqui
Executive Director 

Sana Siddiqui is a seasoned socio-legal professional with over 20 years of experience in advancing constitutional values, rights, and access to justice, particularly for women, children, and marginalised communities. She brings to MARG a rare blend of legal expertise, grassroots engagement, and strategic leadership in programme design, capacity building, and policy advocacy.

Prior to joining MARG, Sana led the Capacity Building Programme at We, The People Abhiyan, where she developed innovative content and trained and mentored facilitators across India. She has previously held leadership roles at HAQ: Centre for Child Rights and consulted with national institutions, including NCPCR, NCW, CARA, and HIPA. Her work has contributed to critical justice reforms, especially in the areas of child sexual abuse, juvenile justice, and the rights of women.

Sana has authored and edited multiple publications on child protection laws, labour rights, and welfare schemes. She has a deep commitment to demystifying law and creating accessible legal knowledge for communities. She recently co-authored the updated Stakeholders’ Manual for the Juvenile Justice System, released by Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Ravinder Bhat.

Having worked with MARG earlier in her career, Sana returns with renewed energy and vision to lead the organisation into its next phase—strengthening legal empowerment and ensuring that justice is accessible, participatory, and transformative.

 

Programmes

D Edwin Charles,
Director Programme 

Mr. D. Edwin Charles is a post graduate in Social work from Madras Christian College, Chennai and MBA in Human Resource Management from Delhi.

He has 30 years of experience in programme development and management of various projects on Urban Poverty reduction, Sustainable Rural development Youth development focusing on the upliftment of most marginalized communities in India and Singapore. He has previously served in the Senior Management team of couple of Organizations and added values to programme administration, Grant management and Partnership coordination.

Arun Kumar Nayak
Project Coordinator, Project – Enabling Access to Justice 

Arun Kumar Nayak is responsible for Coordinating and monitoring of all project activities for organisation. He is Master in Social Work from Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Allahabad. 

Sanno Rai  
Project Coordinator, PARIJAT Project, Gorakhpur

Sanno Rai is responsible for Coordinating  activities under the project PARIJAT.  She is Master in Social  Work from U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open  University Allahabad.  

Ajay Kumar Soni  
Project Implementer, PARIJAT Project, Gorakhpur

Ajay Kumar Soni is responsible for implementing  activities under the project PARIJAT. He has worked as Project Assistant in West Champaran on  “Promoting Women Rights with dignity, Gender and Social Equality”. He is connected with 100 Community Justice Workers in West Champaran  those are trained PLV by MARG.  Ajay Kumar Soni is MSW in education. 

Shikha Mishra
Law Researcher, Project- Enabling Access to Justice

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Shikha Mishra is and advocate and responsible for implementing activities under the projects by the organisation.  She has trained aprox 500 Community Justice Workes (CJWs) in West Champaran, Kushinagar, Nagpur and Bhandara Districts under the project “Promoting Women’s Rights”. She is LL. M. from University of Kota, Rajasthan. 

Kirti

Project Implementer, Project- Enabling Access to Justice, Karnal district, Haryana 

Kirti is responsible for implementing  activities under the projects by the organisation.  She is graduate from Kurukshetra University and MSW from Indira Gandhi National Open University. 

Rohit Raj
Project Implementer, Project – Enabling Access to Justice, Begusarai district, Bihar 

Rahit Raj is responsible for implementing  activities under the projects by the organisation.  He is graduate from Mitila University, Darbhanga  and MSW from Karnataka State Open University. 

Virender Kumar
Programme Assistant, Parijat Project – Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh

Working at MARG since 1998, Virender Kumar assists in projects and programmes of organisation. He is Bachelor in Social Work and pursuing MSW. 

Rajesh Kumar Sharma
Programme Assistant, Parijat Project 

Working at MARG since 2004, Rajesh Kumar Sharma assists in the projects and programmes or organisation. He is Bachelor in Social Work.  

Consultant

Md. Noor Alam

Md. Noor Alam 

Senior Consultant, Former Executive Director  

More than 25 years of academic, research, training and project management experience in educational, research, NGO/development sector, works at Multiple Action Research Group (MARG) since 2009. Before joining MARG, he was a Project Fellow at Department of Gender Studies, NCERT, MHRD, Government of India and at various academic and community based organizations at state level. His academic training is based on Commerce, Law, Management and History. He has specialization in Gender, Active citizenry, Good Governance, Women’s Rights, Child Rights, Dalit and Minorities Rights. In 2017 he attended the Gender Forum in Vietnam and the Gender Academy at International Training Center of ILO, Turin, Italy. In 2018 he was a panel discussant in a ‘Conference on Gender Inclusiveness and Equality’ at Kota Kinabalu, organized by Sabah State Government, Malaysia. ITC/ILO recognized “Great Networker” amongst the 156 delegates of 54 countries from 5 continents at the Gender Academy in 2017.

Kiran Singh

Senior Advocate, Kiran Singh

Legal Consultant 

Advocate Ashok Kumar,

Project : ‘Enabling Access to Justice’ Legal Consultant, Karnal, Haryana 

Advocate Radha Kumari,

Project : ‘Enabling Access to Justice’ Legal Consultant, Begusarai, Bihar 

Administration & Finance

Manoj Kumar Thakur
Administrative Officer

Manoj Kumar Thakur has been working In MARG since 1994, He has 30 years working experiences in HR and Administration works of MARG. He has responsibility of MARG’s administrative works and office management works including project assistance, network management, events and other logistic support.  Academically B. A (Hons.) in  Geography, B. A. (Hons.) in Sociology and Master in Public Administration (M.P.A.).

Rashida Khatoon 
Accounts Officer

Ms Rashida is responsible for book keeping and accounting of organisation. She is expert in taxation accounting and financial management.  She has done B.Com. from Sindri College and MBA (Finance) from Vishvesvaraiya Technical University, Bangalore.  

Sita Devi

Office Helper