2022

Media Workshop on Capacity Building & Sensitization: 18 May, 2022: Vartika Nanda at NCW

2021

Decadal Road Map for Prisons & Correctional Services in India: National Conference of Heads of Prisons: BPR&D

The 7^th National Conference of Heads of Prisons, organized by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), MHA, was conducted on 7 – 8 October 2021 in New Delhi. The Conference provided a common platform to stakeholders from across the country to deliberate the emerging challenges in the field of correctional administration. The outcome of the Conference helped in preparing the Decadal Road Map for Prisons & Correctional Services in India.

A panel discussion on Prisons & Correctional Services in India: A perspective was conducted on October 7. The esteemed panelists were –

Shri. Anand Kumar, DG Prisons, Uttar Pradesh

Shri. Puneet Sehgal, Director, NALSA, Delhi

Dr. Murali Karnam, Assistant Professor, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad

Dr. Vartika Nanda, Indian Prison Reformer and Media Educator

Tinka Tinka was invited as a panelist for the opening session wherein significant findings on Indian prisons were shared. During the conference, Dr. Vartika Nanda, the founder of Tinka Tinka, also presented an audio compiling her research and activities on various jails in India.

Tinka Tinka Prison Radio is the brainchild of Dr. Vartika Nanda, founder of Tinka Tinka Foundation. She has played a vital role in bringing prison radio to District Jail Agra in Uttar Pradesh in 2019, empowering the inmates to explore and showcase their hidden talents. The initiative encouraged the U.P Prison Department to actuate Prison Radio in 5 Central Jails and 18 District Jails. Tinka Tinka has also been instrumental in conceptualizing, training, and executing prison radio in Haryana. Tinka Tinka was also conducive to introducing prison radio in the state of Uttarakhand.

2019

Invited as a speaker at the 6^th National Conference of Heads of Prisons of States / UTs jointly organized by BPR&D, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and Madhya Pradesh Prisons & Correctional Services Department to deliver a lecture on Mechanism for Productive Engagement of Under Trial Prisoners and the Role of Media on 26^th and 27^th February 2019 at Central Academy of Police Training (CAPT), Bhopal.

2018

2018, February 5: Keynote speaker in the national program on Media and Human Rights in Prisons at the State Institute of Correctional Administration, Telangana, Hyderabad organised in collaboration with BPR&D

2017

2017: 25 March: Presented paper on Industry academia linkage: Who drives the agenda, at the national seminar on Communication Education 3.O: Synergizing Technology and Development organised during 25-26 March 2017 by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam in collaboration with UNICEF.

2015

2015, April 2-4: All India Media Educators Conference (Experiences in Creating Awareness on Women’s Issues through Media): Mass Communication Department, Rajasthan University, Jaipur.

2014

2014, January 23: Media Consultation on Human Trafficking and Violence against Women: Shakti Vahini, Delhi.

2013

2013: Seminar on Media Ethics: Bigwigs of Journalism

2013, December 16: Mahilaon ke Prati Apradh aur Media ke Sarokar: Madhya Pradesh Police and Crime Against Women Cell, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

2013: National seminar organized by Massco Media, New Delhi

2012

2012, March 20-21: Achieving Convergence for the Empowerment of Women: Mission Empowerment and the Women, Regional Conference in Collaboration with Deptt of Social Welfare, Chandigarh.

2012: 14 July: Women, Crime and Media (kya jo bikta hai, vahi dikhta hai): Sole Speaker: Indore Press Club, Indore.