Tejaswini Ananth Kumar
Indian politician and social worker (born 1966)
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Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (born Tejaswini Oak; 11 March 1966) is an Indian social worker and an educationist.
11 March 1966
Tejaswini AnanthKumar | |
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| Chairperson of IIEST Shibpur Chairperson of NIT Kurukshetra | |
| Assumed office September 2023 | |
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| Born | Tejaswini Oak 11 March 1966 India |
| Spouse | |
| Education | B.E, PG in Indology |
| Alma mater | B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore University |
| Occupation | Social Activist, Chairperson of Board of Governors at IIEST, Shibapur and NIT Kurukshetra and Member of Board of Governors IIT Roorkee |
| Known for | Adamya Chethana Foundation, Charity |
Kumar is the Chairman and co-founder of Adamya Chetana Foundation.[1]
In September 2023 she was appointed as chairperson of the board of governors of IIEST, Shibpur for a period of next three years.
Early life
She was very active at all levels of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) organizing various student activities. She served as State Joint Secretary & National executive member of ABVP.
Between 1988 and 1993, she worked as a Software Engineer in Bengaluru, Lecturer at BMS college of Engineering and Lecturer at SDM college of Engineering.
She worked as a scientist at ADA (then headed by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) between 1993 – 1997 and on the LCA – Tejas project.
Social work
She along with her husband, Ananth Kumar, founded Adamya Chethana Foundation, a nonprofit organisation for social service. It was setup in 1998 in memory of Girija Shastry, mother of Ananth Kumar.[2] It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals programme.[3] About 160,000 meals are served daily.[4]
Since 2006, Tejaswini is a Founder Trustee of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, 600 bedded state of art charitable hospital, a not for profit organisation with its core focus on cure and prevention of Cancer. The Rani Chennamma University Belgaum presented her with an honorary doctorate for her social service.[5]
Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar took up the responsibility of serving lunch and dinner during the pandemic to thousands of health care workers, covid warriors, and migrant laborers across Bengaluru.[6]
The Adamya Chetana foundation headed by Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar received the Rajyostava award for the mid-day meal program in 2021.[7]
She started implementing SAGY (Sansad Adarsh Grama Yojana) at Ragihalli, the village adopted by Ananth Kumar. The Adamya Chetana foundation has taken up developmental works in the village.[8]
Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar wanted to transform the Adamya Chetana's kitchen into a zero garbage unit.[9] She started the initiative and brought down the kitchen dump to zero where nothing is wasted or thrown into the dustbin.[10] Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar oversees and takes care of the whole kitchen operations.[11]
Food packets and food kits were distributed to senior citizens and the needy during lockdown by Adamya Chetana under her guidance with the help of volunteers.[12]
Green Sunday program led by Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar plants trees every week with volunteers as an initiative for a greener Bengaluru.[13] The project aims to plant one tree per person.[14] The event is organized on Sundays and started in 2015.[15]
Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar set up a Plate bank initiative that helps in reducing plastic usage.[16] The Adamya Chetana foundation has a stock of plates, spoons, and glasses that can be borrowed during events and returned at no cost.[17]