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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1950|06|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]], India
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| occupation = Rural Development Leader, and Pediatrician
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| known for = [[Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development|Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development (CORD)]]
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| parents = [[Waman Bapuji Metre]] Shantabai Metre
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] [[Guardian newspaper|Guardian]] International Development Achievement Award Nina Sibal Award Sadguru Ganananda Award National Women Commission Award [[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] Women of the Year Ojaswani Shikhar Sewa Alankaran Award
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'''Dr. Kshama Metre''', popularly known as '''Doctor Didi''',<ref name="In Conversation with Dr. Kshama Metre – One Day at CORD Dharamsala">{{cite web | url=http://www.tarungoel.in/2012/02/03/kshama-metre-cord-sidhbari-dharamsala/ | title=In Conversation with Dr. Kshama Metre – One Day at CORD Dharamsala | publisher=Tarun Goel | date=3 February 2012 | access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> is an Indian rural development leader, and a pediatrician, who has led the [[Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development]] (CORD) since the founding of its predecessor organization in 1985, and she leads the organization as its National Director.<ref name="Dr. Kshama Metre wins prestigious award in London">{{cite web | url=http://chinmayauk.org/news/dr-kshama-metre-wins-award-in-london/ | title=Dr. Kshama Metre wins prestigious award in London | publisher=Chinmaya Mission, UK | date=19 December 2012 | access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> The organization serves the rural areas of India with its unique approach for sustainable and comprehensive community driven integrated development program,<ref name="CORD and Interview with Dr. Metre">{{cite web | url=http://india.mountmadonnaschool.org/cord-and-interview-with-dr-metre/ | title=CORD and Interview with Dr. Metre | publisher=Mount Madonna School | date=13 April 2015 | access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> under the aegis of the [[Chinmaya Mission]].<ref name="Advisory Board">{{cite web | url=http://cordnewyork.org/cord/dr-shama/ | title=Advisory Board | publisher=CORD USA | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> While holding the directorship of CORD India, she also serves as an adviser to CORD USA, the US wing of the Organization. A recipient of several awards including the [[Guardian newspaper|Guardian]] International Development Achievement Award of 2012,<ref name="Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/achievementsaward/dr-kshama-metre-winner-2012 | title=Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre | publisher=Guardian UK | date=23 November 2012 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> she was selected as the ''Woman of the Year'' by [[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] magazine, in 1993.<ref name="Dr. Kshama Metre on Bhau Institute of Innovation">{{cite web | url=http://www.bhau.org/dr-kshama-metre/ | title=Dr. Kshama Metre on Bhau Institute of Innovation | publisher=Bhau Institute of Innovation | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honor of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2008, for her contributions to society.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
{{quotebox|align = left|width=21em|''All men consider their religion sacred and revere it. When all religions together endorse and validate the right to Paediatric Palliative Care of all eligible children, the impetus to the cause hitherto ignored to a large extent will be immense and will in due time bring about the desired structural changes in health policies and mandates of different counties nationally and internationally'', says Kshama Metre.<ref name="Kshama Metre on Religions World Charter">{{cite web | url=http://religionsworldcharter.maruzza.org/author/21/ | title=Kshama Metre on Religions World Charter | publisher=Religions World Charter | date=2016 | access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref>}}
[[File:A winter morning in Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh.jpg|thumb|235px|[[Sidhbari]] village, Himachal Pradesh]]
Kshama Metre was born on 25 June 1950 to geologist [[Wamanrao Bapuji Metre]] and Shantabai Metre at [[Nagpur]] in the western Indian state of [[Maharashtra]] but spent her early years in [[Assam]].<ref name="Our Inspirations">{{cite web | url=http://www.cordusa.org/index.php/about-us/our-inspiration | title=Our Inspirations | publisher=CORD USA | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> Moving to Delhi, she did her schooling at [[The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi|The Frank Anthony Public School]] before graduating in medicine (MBBS) from [[Maulana Azad Medical College]] and secured her post graduate degree (MD) in pediatrics from the same institution. Later, she did her senior residency at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Delhi and set up her practice in the city.<ref name="Our Inspirations" /> It was during this time, she met [[Chinmayananda Saraswati]], a spiritual leader and educationist; the meeting is reported to have influenced her to abandon medical practice and join the [[Chinmaya Mission]] to assist in their work in the rural areas of the country.<ref name="Dr. Kshama Metre Nominated for 2012 Guardian International Achievement Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.indoamerican-news.com/?p=10953 | title=Dr. Kshama Metre Nominated for 2012 Guardian International Achievement Award | publisher=Indo American News | date=27 September 2012 | access-date=9 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215202809/http://www.indoamerican-news.com/?p=10953 | archive-date=15 February 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1985, leaving behind her life in [[New Delhi]], she went to [[Sidhbari]], a village in [[Himachal Pradesh]], and set up six health centres for women and children and a community health training centre for nurses. The movement gathered momentum in due course and evolved into ''Chinmaya Organisation of Rural Development'' (CORD), with Metre becoming the founding National Director of the organization.<ref name="Padma Shri awardee raps Parliamentary panel team ">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100615/himachal.htm#2 | title=Padma Shri awardee raps Parliamentary panel team | work=The Tribune | date=14 December 2010 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> Under her leadership, CORD operates in over 900 villages and has formed [[self-help groups]] (''Mahila Mandals'') and introduced [[microfinancing]] facilities through the groups.<ref name="Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre" />

In 2003, Chinmaya Mission's rural development activities were combined under the umbrella of CORD.<ref name="Genesis">{{cite web | url=http://www.cord.org.in/aboutcord.html | title=Genesis | publisher=CORD | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref>

The organization has had a strong focus on [[Kangra district]] of [[Himachal Pradesh]], where it started, along with some presence in the neighboring districts. To leverage its long term in-depth experience in its core area of operation, starting 2005, it expanded its activities with satellite units in the states of [[Odisha]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and [[Uttarakhand]].<ref name="“Conception of Self-help Groups and Experiences of CORD”, a Conversation with Dr. Kshama Metre">{{cite web | url=http://unu.edu/events/archive/conversation-series/conception-of-self-help-groups-and-experiences-of-cord.html#overview | title="Conception of Self-help Groups and Experiences of CORD", a Conversation with Dr. Kshama Metre | publisher=United Nations University | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> She has also focused on social issues like HIV/AIDS, [[substance abuse]] and discriminative treatment of women<ref name="Advisory Board" /> and her efforts are reported behind setting up of social forums where law and order issues could be settled without the interference of Police.<ref name="Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre" />

Metre's activities have been supported by the [[National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development]] (NABARD) which extended finance for the microfinancing of the ''Mahila Mandals''. The system initiated by her covers 1490 self-help groups, 75 children's groups, 220 men's groups and several girls' groups and is active in community health programs, rehabilitation programs for disabled people,<ref name="My body also has needs">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/my-body-also-has-needs/article7184098.ece | title=My body also has needs | publisher=The Hindu | date=9 May 2015 | access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> legal aid programs, and livelihood support programs.<ref name="Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre" /> Her efforts gained her a nomination to the now defunct [[Planning Commission of India]] in 2007 for a five-year term that lasted till 2012 where she was a member of the work group which focused on primary healthcare.<ref name="Advisory Board" /> She has written several articles on rural healthcare and development; some of them getting accepted by ''Changemakers'', a networking platform for social entrepreneurship.<ref name="Young Men at Risk: Transforming the Power of a Generation">{{cite journal | url=https://www.changemakers.com/competition/men/entries/youth-are-not-useless-they-are-used-less-they-are-not | title=Young Men at Risk: Transforming the Power of a Generation | author=Kshama Metre | journal=Changemakers | date=January 2008}}</ref><ref name="Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis">{{cite journal | url=https://www.changemakers.com/waterandsanitation/entries/sanitation-hygiene-and-proper-water-management-rural | title=Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis | author=Kshama Metre | journal=Changemakers | date=March 2008}}</ref>

Her group of volunteers have trained over 40,000 people in the management of rural development, representing government and banking institutions, [[non government organization]]s and [[Self-help groups|self-help group]] (SHG) members.<ref name="Dr. Kshama Metre on Bhau Institute of Innovation" /> In 2015, with the increasing demand for such training, a new facility for CORD Training Center was opened in Sidhbari.

== Awards and honours ==
In 1993, [[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] magazine selected Metre as the ''Woman of the Year''.<ref name="The self-help movement in rural India and CORD’s experience – Community activist">{{cite web | url=http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Misc/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=80 | title=The self-help movement in rural India and CORD's experience – Community activist | publisher=International Development Research Center, Canada | date=16 June 2011 | access-date=9 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216052556/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Misc/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=80 | archive-date=16 February 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> This was followed by ''Ojaswani Shikhar Sewa Alankaran Award'' of the [[Times Group]] in 2000, and the Women's Empowerment Award of the [[National Commission for Women]] in 2002.<ref name="Achievements of CORD">{{cite web | url=http://www.cord.org.in/achievements.html | title=Achievements of CORD | publisher=CORD | date=2016 | access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> Two years later, ''Prophets of India'', a 2004 publication, listed her as one of the protagonists<ref name="Advisory Board" /> and she received the ''Sadguru Ganananda Award'' for social service in 2005.<ref name="Our Inspirations" /> She was awarded the ''[[Nina Sibal]] Award'' in 2006 by the All India Women's Education Fund Association (AIWEFA) for her leadership of CORD and the organization's contribution towards ''Integrated Community Based Rehabilitation work for differently abled person''.<ref name="Achievements of CORD" /> The Government of India included her in the 2008 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /> [[The Guardian]], the British national daily, chose her for the International Achievement Award in 2012, for her ''exceptional work to alleviate poverty in the developing world''.<ref name="The Guardian Announces Development Award Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/the-guardian-announces-development-award-winners | title=The Guardian Announces Development Award Winners | publisher=Women Deliver | date=26 December 2012 | access-date=9 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306034747/http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/the-guardian-announces-development-award-winners | archive-date=6 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2017, she was chosen for the Savitribai Jyotirao Phule award.

== See also ==
* [[Waman Bapuji Metre]]
* [[The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg2d5QhqDDc | title=Guardian International Development Achievement Award winner 2012: Dr Kshama Metre | publisher=CORD USA | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=4 April 2013 | access-date=8 February 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.servicespace.org/blog/view.php?id=17398 | title=Interview with Dr. Kshama Metre | publisher=Ward Mailliard | work=Web video | date=26 July 2015 | access-date=9 February 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://ww.itimes.com/video/kshama-metre-the-self-help-movement-in-rural-india-and-cords-experience-2011 | title=Kshama Metre - The Self-Help Movement in Rural India and CORD's Experience | publisher=iTimes | work=Web video | date=2011 | access-date=9 February 2016}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal | url=https://www.changemakers.com/competition/men/entries/youth-are-not-useless-they-are-used-less-they-are-not | title=Young Men at Risk: Transforming the Power of a Generation | author=Kshama Metre | journal=Changemakers | date=January 2008}}
* {{cite journal | url=https://www.changemakers.com/waterandsanitation/entries/sanitation-hygiene-and-proper-water-management-rural | title=Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis | author=Kshama Metre | journal=Changemakers | date=March 2008}}
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