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Line 21: ==Career== Mander formerly worked in the [[Indian]] Administrative Services([[IAS)]]),<ref name="TPrint">{{cite news \|title=Harsh Mander — 'bleeding-heart liberal' who's fighting Modi govt with Gandhi's 'radical love' \|url=https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/harsh-mander-bleeding-heart-liberal-whos-fighting-modi-govt-with-gandhis-radical-love/340117/ \|access-date=4 March 2020 \|publisher=The Print \|date=25 December 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304075258/https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/harsh-mander-bleeding-heart-liberal-whos-fighting-modi-govt-with-gandhis-radical-love/340117/ \|archive-date=4 March 2020 \|quote=Former IAS officer and social activist Harsh Mander}}</ref> serving in the predominantly tribal states of [[Madhya Pradesh]]<ref name="Zed">{{cite book \|last1=edited by John Gaventa, Rosemary McGee \|title=Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen \|date=4 April 2013 \|publisher=Zed Books, UK \|page=119 \|isbn=9781848138322 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARdjDgAAQBAJ&q=harsh%20mander&pg=PT119 \|access-date=4 March 2020}}</ref> and [[Chhattisgarh]] for almost two decades. After [[2002 Gujarat riots\|Gujarat Riot]], Mander left the service in 2002, and started social activism.<ref name="Zed"/> He is a founding member of the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information. He was a Member of the Core Groups on Bonded Labour and Mental Hospitals of the statutory [[National Human Rights Commission]] of India; and also on various national official National Committees such as those for Social Protection and the [[Below Poverty Line]] (BPL) populations. From October 1999 to March 2004, he worked as Country Director, [[ActionAid\|ActionAid India]], a development support organization. He is Founder-Chairperson of the State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh, which established the [https://shsrc.in/mitanin-programme-community-process/ Mitanin Community Health Programme], the forerunner of the [[Accredited Social Health Activist\|Asha Programme]], and the Chairperson of INCENSE (The Inclusion and Empowerment of People with Severe [[Mental disorder\|Mental Disorders]]). He is also a member of the Working Group of the Project on Armed Conflict Resolution & People's Rights, [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He was appointed a Member of India’s [[National Advisory Council]] by the council President [[Sonia Gandhi]] in June 2010.<ref name=":0" /> He convened the working groups on the [[Food security bill\|Food Security Bill]], [[Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Bill]], Child Labour Abolition, Urban Poverty and Homelessness, Disability Rights, Bonded Labour, Street Vendors and Urban Slums, and co-convened the groups on the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, Dalits and Minorities and Tribal Rights, among others. His tenure was not renewed in 2012.

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