Padma Shri who works for leprosy patients felicitated by KDMC chief

Gajanan Jagannath Mane

Gajanan Jagannath Mane, who has been honoured with Padma Shri for social work in Maharashtra, was felicitated by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC)in Thane district on Friday. A former Navy personnel, Mane has been working for the rehabilitation of leprosy-affected people across the state for decades. He is among the 91 Padma Shri awardees this year.

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Mane, who lives in Dombivli, worked hard to set up a colony for those afflicted with leprosy, a bacterial disease that mainly affects the skin, eyes, nose, upper respiratory tract and peripheral nerves, at Hanuman Nagar in Kalyan. He also ensured that many leprosy-affected people received employment, said officials. Mane was felicitated by Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Commissioner Dr Bhasaheb Dangdi, they said.

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No of Padma Shri awardees this year