Tejaswini Ananth Kumar

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Tejaswini Ananth Kumar
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Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka
Assumed office
2 April 2019
Personal details
Born
Tejaswini Oak

(1966-03-11) 11 March 1966 (age 58)
India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
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(m. 1989;died 2018)​
Education B.E, PG in Indology
Alma mater B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore University
OccupationPolitician, Social Activist
Known for Adamya Chetana Foundation, Charity

Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (born Tejaswini Oak; 11 March 1966) is an Indian politician and social worker. [1]

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Kumar is the Chairman and co-founder of Adamya Chetana Foundation, and the Karnataka state Vice-President for BJP. [2] [3]

In September 2023 she was appointed as chairperson of the board of governors of IIEST, Shibpur for a period of next three years. [4]

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 Chetana Foundation, a nonprofit organisation for social service. It was setup in 1998 in memory of Girija Shastry, mother of Ananth Kumar. [5] It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals programme. [6] About 2,00,000 meals are served daily. [7]

Since 2006, Tejaswini is a Founder Trustee of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, 450 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. [8]

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. [9]

The Adamya Chetana foundation headed by Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar received the Rajyostava award for the mid-day meal program in 2021. [10]

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. [11]

Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar wanted to transform the Adamya Chetana's kitchen into a zero garbage unit. [12] She started the initiative and brought down the kitchen dump to zero where nothing is wasted or thrown into the dustbin. [13] Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar oversees and takes care of the whole kitchen operations. [14]

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. [15]

Green Sunday program led by Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar plants trees every week with volunteers as an initiative for a greener Bengaluru. [16] The project aims to plant one tree per person. [17] The event is organized on Sundays and started in 2015. [18]

Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar set up a Plate bank initiative that helps in reducing plastic usage. [19] The Adamya Chetana foundation has a stock of plates, spoons, and glasses that can be borrowed during events and returned at no cost. [20]

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