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)
Ananth Kumar
(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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