Tejaswini Ananth Kumar

Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (née Oak) is an Indian politician and social worker in Bengaluru, Karnataka. She is the Managing Trustee of the Adamya Chetana Foundation, a voluntary organisation based in Bengaluru.[1] The key focus of this NGO is providing Anna-Akshara-Arogya (Food-Education-Health) to under-privileged children. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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

(1966-03-11) 11 March 1966
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1989; died 2018)​
EducationB.E, PG in Indology
Alma materB.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore University
OccupationPolitician, Social Activist
Known forAdamya Chetana Foundation, Charity

She is also the vice president, BJP Karnataka.[2]

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.[3] It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals programme.[4] About 2,00,000 meals are served daily.[5]

Since 2006, Tejaswini is a Founder Trustee of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, 250 bedded state of art charitable hospital, a not for profit organisation with its core focus on cure and prevention of Cancer.

References
  1. "Adamya Chetana – Anna Akshara Arogya". Adamyachetana.org. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. "Tejaswini Ananth Kumar appointed Karnataka BJP VP after being denied LS ticket from B'luru South".
  3. "Ananth Kumar: Union Minister Ananth Kumar passes away". K R Balasubramanyam. The Economic Times. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  4. "Adamya Chetana – Anna Akshara Arogya". Adamyachetana.org. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. "'Our Annapoorna kitchens are paathshaalas, prayogashaalas too' - Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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