Tshering Lepcha
research & development officer
Dr. Tshering Lepcha, is a Research and Development Officer at Anugyalaya Darjeeling DSSS, Loreto Convent Road Darjeeling. Before joining Anugyalaya, he worked as a Samvaad Consultant at the TATA STEEL FOUNDATION, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. He has two years of teaching experience. He has a background of Master in Social Work (Community Development), MPhil and PhD in Public Health. His areas of interest in Social Work practice with marginalized communities, Rural Community Development, Traditional Knowledge System, Traditional Healing Practices, Tribal Community Development and Tribal Healers Collective. Tshering Lepcha has published articles in edited books, journal and newspaper. He is a Program Advisory Council and Task Force Member under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India Going online as a Leader (GOAL) flagship program. He served five years as a Volunteer/Representative for North Eastern people in Delhi under Special Police Unit for North East Region. He was a researcher in the project title Folk and Tribal Healing Practices in Selected States of North East Region project of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA, New Delhi) in collaboration with Anthropos India Foundation, New Delhi. Additionally, he was engaged as a social activist / Delhi Police for North East Representative (DPNER-Darjeeling) under Delhi Police-Special Police Unit for North East Region, since 2015 to 2019.
Lepcha, Tshering 2023. “Understanding Aetiology of Diseases: Special Reference to Lepcha Communities of Dzongu, Sikkim.” Sunita Reddy, Nemthianngai Guite and Bamdev Subed (Eds.) Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India: Challenges and Possibilities of Recognition and Integration, pp. 133–144. Singapore: Springer.
Lepcha, Tshering. 2018/2020. “Traditional Healing Practices and the Role of Traditional Health Practitioners in Primary Health Care: A Medical Heritage of Sikkim.” In Sarit K. Chaudhuri, Sameera Maiti and Carisma K. Lepcha (Eds.) The Cultural Heritage of Sikkim (ed.). IGRMS & Manohar (2018) and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2020.
Lepcha, Tshering. 2019. ‘Traditional Healing Practices among the Lepchas and Nepali Communities in Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim. The Research Journal of Social Sciences. ISSN 0025-1348, p.p., 255-263, UGC APPROVED.
Reddy, Sunita and Tshering Lepcha, 2019. Importance of Folk Healers in Primary Health Care: Need for Recognition and Support. Sikkim Express on 4th February 2019 and SummitTimes on 5th February 2019, Gangtok, Sikkim.