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Surendra Koulagi

Shri Surendra Koulagi

  • 2014
  • Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Constructive Work
Shri Surendra Koulagi is a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan. After working with Jayaprakash Narayan as his personal assistant from 1954 to 1959 in Bihar, he returned to work in Karnataka and selected Melkote area in Mandya district, a region that was then very poor and backward. Shri. Koulagi is the founder of Janapada Seva Trust a voluntary social service organization established in 1960. Inspired by the Gandhian ideal of sarvodaya, the Trust has b .... Read More