Sandhya Dhar

She founded the Jammu Institute of General Education and Rehabilitation (JIGER) in 2015 to support disabled people and was awarded the 2020 Nari Shakti Puraskar.

Sandhya Dhar was born in early 1980 in Srinagar, the summer capital of erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir into a Kashmiri Pandit family.

[1] Her parents prioritised her care and she was sent to the Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped in New Delhi for two years.

[3] She became a disability rights activist and founded the Jammu Institute of General Education and Rehabilitation (JIGER) in 2015.

[4] Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, said in 2022 that Dhar, alongside Nasira Akhtar and Nasheeman Ashraf, was an inspiration for women in the region.