Education
Jai received her master"s degree from the School of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Jai received her master"s degree from the School of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville.
She contributed greatly to the use of media in education and was instrumental in introducing its use at premier institutes like Central Institute of – National Council of Educational Research and Training, Indira Gandhi Open University ( Indira Gandhi National Open University), and the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting and Development (AIBD) in Kuala Lumpur, among various other institutions. Jai began her career as a producer in Doordarshan at the age of 24 in 1961, two years after the Television Division of the All India Radio was started. She worked as a temporary hand who was given charge of setting up India"s school television broadcasts.
She was one of the first television professionals who had no radio background.
Her main concerns were gender imbalance issues, children"s education and distance learning. Since she had no predecessors to learn from at Doordarshan, her career was an inimitable journey in innovation.
Doordarshan had a large audience base, and Jai looked at details, both big and small, to ensure that the programs were visually appealing and intellectually stimulating. Later she would describe the extent of improvisation which was the norm: figuring out the exact 20-minute period when the light coming through the studio window was just right to go through the prism and demonstrate VIBGYOR, and supplementing studio lights for other programming with lights borrowed from her uncle’s car workshop." In the mid 1970s, she worked for the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment in Ahmedabad (SITE), which took television to Indian village schools.
Jai was also a part-time actress off-Broadway and donned several other roles with apparent ease.
Several of her admirers were impressed with her "grasp of issues and networking skills". She was a jury member at Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (Japan) and the IAWRT Awards. List of positions held Head of the television department at the Central Institute of of the National Council for al Research and Training(National Council of Educational Research and Training) Head of the department of television at the Film and Television Institute, Pune Head of the Fortune Institute of Information and Television (FICT) Advisor at the Delhi International Arts Festival Media consultant(Television) at the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting and Development, (AIBD), Kuala Lumpur Head of the al Media Production Center of Indira Gandhi National Open University (EMPC- Indira Gandhi National Open University) Executive director, Media, at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA) Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the cluster of channels focussing on education, named Mana television Director of Doordarshan, Delhi Director of Doordarshan, Ahmedabad Director of Doordarshan, Central Production Centre Examiner for the Jamia Millia Institute for Mass Communication Commonwealth of Learning Consultant and trainer for National Institute of Teachers (National Institute of Technology) and NOUN, Nigeria Worked with Ammu Joseph to study the training of Sri Lankan journalists, for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Consultant for the Princess Diana Leprosy Mission Trust Media Advisor, DEP-Social Security Administration Indira Gandhi National Open University Jai was a confident and inspiring woman who took bold steps with little regard to repercussions from powerful circles.
She was deeply concerned about women"s rights and was involved with the IAWRT Asian Women"s Film Festival which provides a platform for women film makers to focus on gender issues.