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Content head & Chief Correspondent, Special Projects, NDTV

Ambika Singh Kahma: Ambika Singh Kahma is the Content head & Chief Correspondent, Special Projects, NDTV. She has been working with NDTV’s special projects for the last 9+ years. She has worked on many social cause campaigns across various genres and spear headed campaigns like Banega Swachh India and Banega Swasth India campaign. She has been an integral part of special project campaigns like Save our tigers, Dil Se sewa, Defeating Diabetes, Road to safety, Every Life Counts, More to Give, Roshan Dilli and Find your Equal are a few to name.

Ambika started her career 20 years back as a sports journalist, did a stint in Radio jockeying but it was her inclination towards social driven campaigns and her passion for the environment that made her switch from Sports journalism to reporting and anchoring social issue campaigns.

The social issues she has been working on include environment and health, SDGs (gender, girl child, breaking the bias, leaving no one behind).

She also anchors panel discussions on NDTV 24/7 and NDTV India on various issues; Beat diabetes, Every drop counts, World Suicide Day, Sleep Day, Put vision first besides conceptualization the story, reporting, scripting and anchoring the feature documentaries.

Ambika also co-anchors the 12-hour live Banega Swasth India telethon with the Campaign Ambassador, Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Dr Prannoy Roy.

She has been constantly writing Web articles on ndtv.com about these issues. She has also been very active on social media by doing a lot of Facebook lives, interviews for various campaigns. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambika-singh-kahma-019446a2/