Mugdha Dhananjay Karnik is Director of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Bombay where she also earned her Master’s Degree in Sociology. As director, she has organized many educational projects and science-oriented activities for rural children and women. She has also successfully completed two projects involving local students in the study of their own village ecosystem.
She organizes many educational activities regarding women’s rights, women’s health, the Indian system of medicine (the Ayurveda) and legal aid for rural women. For urban students, her unit organizes nature study trails, marine trails, painting, sculpture and pottery camps, aquarium camps and astrophysics camps.