Tejaswini Ananth Kumar
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Tejaswini Ananth Kumar

Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (born Tejaswini Oak; 11 March 1966) is an social worker and an educationist

Kumar is the Chairman and co-founder of Adamya Chetana Foundation.

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

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.

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. It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals programme. About 160,000 meals are served daily.

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.

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