Sadguru Gnanananda national awards
The Sadguru Gnanananda national awards were presented to former Air Vice Marshal V Krishnaswamy and his wife Mrs Jaya Krishnaswamy of Madhuram Narayanan Centre (MNC) at a function held in Chennai on 4 February 2006. The award was given to the couple under a special category - “Families in social work”- introduced for the first time by Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani (MSDS), a charitable trust for the promotion of social consciousness. MSDS identifies and acclaims women who are agents of social change and take up the onerous task of serving fellow humans, especially women and children. It has so far conferred awards to 70 women social entrepreneurs from all over India.
Air Vice Marshal V Krishnaswamy and Jaya Krishnaswamy receiving a silver plaque from T S Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Under the special category of awards, this husband and wife team doing pioneering work in the social sector by being instrumental in establishing and running the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children, have been chosen and honoured.
The award carried a citation, cash award of Rs 50,000 each to Air Vice Marshal and his wife, a plaque and shawls. The devoted couple who have dedicated their lives to the cause of special children and have been involved with MNC since its inception in 1989 have magnanimously donated the cash award to the institution.
Air Vice Marshal and Jaya Krishnaswamy receiving the citation from Swami Nityanandagiri.
Former Chief Election Commissioner of India T S Krishnamurthy presented the awards and the guests of honour present were Swami Nityanandagiri of Tapovanam and N Sankar, Chairman, The Sanmar Group. The other awardees of the year include Dr Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman police officer, Ms Uma Preman, the founder of Santhi Medical Information Centre at Guruvayoor and Ms Jammela Nishat who established the Shaheen Women’s Resource and Welfare Centre at Hyderabad.
At the annual Sports Day celebrations of Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children (MNC) held on 17 February 2006, games and special events designed for special children included picking up balls from one bowl and dropping them into another, picking up stones from a bucket of water, dropping coins in a piggy bank, abacus number games and sorting vegetables which elicited a big response from the children. “For children whose mobility is restricted we chose games that could be played sitting in one place”, said Vimala Kannan, Principal of MNC. William Alden, Managing Director, Alden Pre-Press Enterprises (P) Limited, was a guest of honour at the function.
Former Test cricketer Bharath Reddy, the chief guest for the day’s proceedings, gave away the prizes to the winners.
Mythili welcomes chief guest Bharath Reddy with a bouquet.
Supercop K Vijaykumar, the Additional Director General of Police, was the chief guest at the joint annual day celebration of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Adyar and Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruvanmiyur, on 28 January 2006. Vijaykumar as we all know, led the mission to capture the brigand Veerappan.
Variety entertainment programmes offered by the schools marked the occasion. While students of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School presented a dance programme titled, “Mahishasura Mardhini”, and the student orchestra rendered the Thiruvachakam, students of Sri Sankara Vidyashramam presented a dance programme, “Amrutha Saraswathi”, and rendered the Thevaram. The chief guest gave away the awards and prizes. V S Dhandapani, Managing Trustee, Indian Education Trust spoke on the occasion.
Chief guest K Vijaykumar (centre), Additional Director General of Police, is seen here with (from l to r) Subala Ananthanarayanan, Principal, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Adyar , V S Dhandapani, Managing Trustee, Indian Education Trust, K S Narayanan and Kalpalatha Mohan, Principal, Sri Sankara Vidyashramam, Tiruvanmiyur.
Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruvanmiyur
As part of the World Wild Life programme in January this year, children of classes I to V of Sri Sankara Vidyashramam, Tiruvanmiyur, explored the diversity of wild life species in four different continents including Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Australia.
Children dressed to look like various animals belonging to these continents, had something to tell the audience and the stage looked like a forest designed exclusively for the children.
At the Skills For Adolescence (SFA) programme conducted at the school for students in January this year, Ms Jayne Westerlund, Programme ordinator, Lions Quest International Foundation, Illinois, was the guest of honour. She interacted with the students and appreciated the articulate skills of the students.
World Wild Life programme.
SFA programme in progress.
Students of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Adyar, participated and won the first, second and third place in the Science quiz programme conducted by the Indian Society of Radiation Physics (ISRP), Kalpakkam. The school is bagging prizes for the fourth consecutive year. A special prize was awarded to Harshavardhan of class XII.
At the Intel Science quiz conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education at New Delhi, 6000 teams from all over the country participated and team represented by Anindya Dutta, S Shravan and R Ananthapadmanabhan of class XII of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Adyar, won the third place.
V Senathypathy, son of S Veluchamy, a driver at Asco (India) Limited, has done his school and parents proud by winning the first position, which included a cash prize of Rs 10,000 and a trophy at a speed reading competition conducted for school children in the city.
Only Success Learning Technologies, a company that conducts several training programmes for children, recently organised the competition in the city which elicited a favourable response from several school children. After three rounds of elimination, some were chosen for the final round. The13-year-old Senathypathy, is a student of Sri Sankara Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruvalluvar Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur.
Senathypathy seen holding the cup and the cheque
with the organisers of the speedreading competition.