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MANANEEYA A. BALAKRISHNANJI IS OUR NEW PRESIDENT

Mananeeya A. Balakrishnanji is the new President of Vivekananda Kendra
Kanyakumari.

A jeevanvrati of the first batch of Vivekananda Kendra, Ma. Balakrishnanji was
elected as President of Vivekananda Kendra at the Managing Committee meeting
held on July 19, 2020.

Ma. Balakrishnanji succeeds former President P Parameswaranji who passed away
some months ago due to old age.

After his retirement from the Indian Air Force, Balakrishnanji came in contact with
Eknathji Ranade, the founder of Vivekananda Kendra, and was trained as a life-
worker in the first batch of 1973 by Eknathji himself. After the training,
Balakishnanji was posted in the North-Eastern region as Zonal Organizer. From
1981 to 2001, he held the responsibility as General Secretary. It was under his
leadership that the Vivekananda Kendra started the residential Vivekananda
Kendra Vidyalayas in Arunachal Pradesh in 1979.

Since 2001, he had the responsibility as the Vice-President.

Earlier, Prof TMP Mahadevan (1972-76), Prof Kamal Nayan Vaswani (1976-78),
Eknathji Ranade (1978-82), D Lakshmi Kumari (1982-1995) and P Parameswaranji
(1995-2020) served the Kendra as Presidents.

Mananeeya Balakrishnanji is the sixth President.

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