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Shri Ganeshan has had a distinguished career in Indian Navy, lasting 35 years.  Recipient of Nao Sena Medal and Vasishta Seva Medal, he participated actively in the 1971 and Kargil wars. The last post he held in the Navy as Rear Admiral was being the Project Director for the first Nuclear Submarine built in India.

During his service, he steered the Navy’s largest rural outreach programme named to assist in the restoration of quake hit villages in Gujarat. In partnership with the Centre for Science for Villages, his team from INS Valsura, resurrected a completely flattened village – named Moda – later adopted by Indian Navy after the earthquake and built quake resistant houses, asphalted roads with street lighting with all other services, such as schools, shopping complex, Community Center and overhead tanks for water to feed people and cattle. The pioneering construction was done by using clay and baked tiles that are available in the area using the local labour.  This was the first post-earthquake resurrection program in the State, completed in a record time of three months and commissioned by the Governor of Gujarat and renamed Navy Moda village.
 
Post retirement, he was the CMD of Garden Reach Ship Builders & Engineers (GRSE) Kolkata till 2008 and subsequently as an Independent Director of Shipping Corporation of India. 

Shri Ramamurthy had a distinguished record of service in Industry for three decades ending up with BHEL as the CEO of their Electronics Division in Bangalore. Personally , he was an internationally reputed expert on solar energy and had assisted in setting up a number of manufacturing facilities for PV panels across the country.

Post retirement he took up the cause of primary education in Government schools, founding a voluntary sector initiative in the name of Sikshana. Started with just three schools and own personal funding in 2002, the program grew to become one of the largest Initiatives in the field of Public Education in the country by the time he relinquished control of the Organization in favor of a professionally run Board in 2015.  

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The fact that every village invariably had a school and a temple, often adjacent to each other, drove him to realize that, with the experience he had acquired with the former, he could possibly do something productive with the latter too. 

V.Chandrasekaran, an Electrical Engineering Graduate from I.I.T Madras, has an impeccable track record of turning around businesses under his command and setting new standards for the service industry. He was given awards by the Government of India for his contributions to innovation, setting quality standards and talent management when he was at Wipro Systems as their President and Chief Executive and at AztecSoft as their Chief Executive. He pioneered the start of Wipro Academy of Software Excellence in coordination with BITS Pilani and Software management Program with IIM Bangalore.

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After retirement he has mainly devoted himself to help the underprivileged. He has built homes for Little Hearts  the Home for Mentally Challenged and Mentally Ill adults and supports  them in various places in Tamil Nadu. He has created Corpus funds for Ramakrishna Mission Students Home and Sarada Vidyalaya at Chennai and has built a school for Visvakshema Trust In Srirangapatna near Mysore. His main focus so far has been on education of the under privileged.

​was the driving force behind Sikshana, funding the program in its infancy; it grew from a meagre start of three schools to a level of 1.5 lakh children in 1200 schools with a budget of Rs 5 Crores during the tenure of E S Ramamurthy. She has once again stepped in to support and finance the current initiative at the very beginning.