Born on 3rd September 1950 in Belgaum, Ms. Nadira Chaturvedi is presently engaged in Social Work and
Teaching. She is a Professor of Business Management Studies at Fostiima Business School, Dwarka, New Delhi,
for the past thirteen years. She is also engaged in cancer support as a volunteer for 13 years in Cansupport.
However her main focus has been on spreading the joy and habit or reading, and education to underprivileged
children through the family NGO Aseem’s Library registered as “Aseem Charitable Education Trust” at New Delhi.
Academic and Professional: B Sc. from Belgaum, Karnataka in 1970, she passed her MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
in 1975. Ever since then she has managed small and medium sized businesses as a Director, and Entrepreneur,
in products ranging from electronics, automobile goods, engineering and plastic goods, fashion garments,
retailing, manufacturing and exports. She is an Entrepreneur by nature and also had her own business at one
time.
Many branches of Aseem’s Library cum Creative Learning Centres are present in Orphanages, Rainbasera daycare centres, and Shelter Homes in Delhi, Mehrauli, Okhla, Kashmiri gate etc. These ALCLCs cater to neo -literates
and deprived children and adults, (about 4000 in 2018-19), providing non formal education and life-skills through
reading and creative learning methodology. The library also sponsors education of patients or family members
of cancer patients. The library has great impact on drug dependant adolescent in changing their outlook in life.