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(Regd.Soc)
8, (OldNo.126)G.N.Chctty Road,T. Nagar, Chennai -600 017
Phone: 044 28341921, 4867 9207 Email: main@ba|amandir.org
Website: www.balamandir.org

12.12.2022

P.Nataraian — a decade of service to Bala Mandir

Mandir (BMKT) (Pamphlet

A decade of devoted interaction and involvement with Bala
‘PN’. What started in late 2012 as a
enclosed) has gone by for P.Natarajan known by all as
towards much needed organisational
courtesy visit to offer help to the Hon.Gen.Secretary
Sector end - 2019 become a full time
change, has since his retirement from the Corporate
servrce.
deprived children for over
Bala Mandir an institution extending its services to orphan, destitute,
into many areas of child care and education
7 decades since 1949 had grown and broadened out
PN brought with him integrity,
and was in need of consolidation, re—thinking and re-engineering.
total commitment to the cause and took up the process, with fore sight and efficiency par
had perhaps not
excellence. His own successful engineering based — corporate background
activities of an NGO, but his innate caring
prepared him for the administration and service
solutions to improve it and his much needed out
nature, ability to grasp a situation and think of
of the box thinking, soon become a great advantage to Bala Mandir.
where he held the position
For a while he also took on other responsibilities in the organization
of Treasurer / Trustee.
Centre when needed, the
These assignments included Principal of the Vocational Training
infrastructure of the Bala Mandir
responsibility to completely re-furburish the much damaged
closure of the VTC when the tough
Buildings during the Floods and Cyclone of 2015+16,
much debated but vital decision to
decision had to be taken, carefully steering BMKT into the
completely revamping Bala
create income through a Joint Venture for enhancing income,
requirements and
Mandir’s IT systems Administration and Accounts Dept, based on statutory
need for efficiency.
articulated and
To add to the above he successfully set up the website (wflalamandirorg),
defined the values of BMKT into a code of conduct and
of 2 NGOs
re-defined its Management structure and worked on the smooth integration and
Bala Mandir Research Foundation
working with similar values and ideals of BMKT the
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Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children.

that he accomplished with
The significance of the above list of services and assignments
time when we he was still in
excellence lies in thefact that these were accomplished by PN at a
the Corporate Sector. The Corporate he worked for
could never have evenfelt that there was
to them because Bola Mandir benefittedfi'om his
'
any compromise on his time or commitment the gap in between his Corporate
weekends. holidays, late nights and spare time and during
responsibility.

ACTIVITIES: Children's Home Chennai and Nagercoil, Adoption, Day Care Centre, Primary Schr
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High School, Centre for Exceptional Children, Research

TRUSTEES: N. Kumar, President, Maya Gaitonde, Hon. Gen. Secy., P. Natarajan, Treasure
M.K. Sonthalia, K.V. Rangaswami, Sriram Panchu, Girija Vaidyanathan
 Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust (Regd.Soc)
H°> Chetty Road, T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 017
8, (Old No. 126) G.N.
Phone: 044 2834 1921, 4867 9207 Email: main@balamandir.org
nu mum Website: www.balamandir.org

More recently from January 2020 PN post retirement came on board fully to Bala Mandir with
increased involvement and responsibility much more than he had been shouldering in the earlier
years.
0 Secretaryship of the Satyamurthi High School and responsibility to re-engineer the entire
Education Units of Bala Mandir from KG to High School and start a Higher Secondary.
0 Taking Bala Mandir through the Pandemic handling every crisis, personally and with
efficiency strict on the protocols and protective and supportive of the orphan and destitute
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“children in the home” whose parenting responsibility BMKT had.

PN’s personal contribution to the expansion of BaIa Mandir’s service to children in difficult
circumstances was to develop in 2021 — the “Kinship Care Programme” benefitting presently
close to 500 children who lost their “Parenting” due to Covid. The program conceived by him is
better explained in the enclosed pamphlet and'IS a symbol of BMKT’ s progress in
child centric
service .

To add to this he took the fore-frontin further refining and professionalizing Accounts, HR,
Infrastructure and IT, services‘

PN has taken a supportive lead in every activity of Bala Mandir and works closely with the
Executive members. In turn they find his forthright, disciplined and strict adherence to law and
admin. Rules, qualities to admire and respect. PN is ready to listen to the other’s point of view
and either convince them effectively with his own view or back off when in opposition - if he
feels it is in the better interest of harmony, but definitely because the service will eventually in
the way conceived by the other have a “positive social impact”.

As Hon.Gen.Secretary of Bala Mandir pleasure to share how PN in the past decade and
it is my
in the future will help the Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust to consolidate its present services even
while expanding them to new horizons of “child centricity” and positive ‘social impact’. His
continued involvement and commitment to the cause will help BMKT to move beyond the walls
of institutional services into innovative areas of child care and development.

In the Service of Children,

HonoraryAazneraIM
ecretary.

ACTIVITIES: Children’s Home - Chennai and Nagercoil, Adoption, Day Care Centre, Primary School,

High School, Centre for Exceptional Children, Research

TRUSTEES: N. Kumar, President, Maya Gaitonde, Hant Gen. Secy, R Natarajan, Treasurer,
M.K. Sonthalia, K.V. Rangaswami, Sriram Panchu, Girija Vaidyanathan