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Mrs. Renu Rajaram Dandekar is a Marathi writer, educationist and social worker. Renu Dandekar and her husband, Dr. Rajabhau Dandekar, have been making good students through vocational, skill-based education for many years in a village called Chikhalgaon in Dapoli taluka in Ratnagiri district. The project is called Loksadhana.

In the year 1982, a young couple came to remote area of Chikhalgaon in Konkan with the dream of rural development. They started the school as the foundation of rural development. They started working in Chikhalgaon and surrounding46 villages with the idea of ​​"skill-based education" enabling them to make their living through vocational training.Today, Loksadhana is currently working in the field of  Education, Health, Agriculture, Rural Development, Women Empowerment.

Mrs. Renu Dandekar has contributed in the book 'Ajacha Sham Ghadtana." along with Mr. Achyut Godbole which is originally written by Dr. Muralidhar Gode and Shri. Nerlekar.

Renu Dandekar writes a weekly article entitled 'New Part of Creation' introducing unique schools in the daily Lokasatta.