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Emeritus, Director of Education, Head of Shikshan Bharati and
Member of the Executive Council and the Bhishma PitaMaha of
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Shri Shashikant Motilal Parekh, passed
away in Mumbai on Monday, 26th May, 2008 after a brief
illness. He was 87.
Born on 26th August, 1921, Professor S.M. Parekh joined
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1946 as a Lecturer of Chemistry in
Bhavan’s College at its Complex at Andheri. He served the
College as its Vice-Principal from 1958 till 1965. He was
appointed as Principal by Dr. K. M. Munshi, Founder of Bhavan,
to head its Bhavan’s College at Chowpatty.
On his retirement in 1986, he was elevated as Principal
Emeritus and he immediately joined Central Bhavan as Joint
Director.
He assumed charge as Director of Education and Head of
Shikshan Bharati, which guides and controls all the
educational institutions of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan throughout
India. He was also the Chief of Bhavan’s Rajendra Prasad
Institute of Communication and Management which runs 53
centres throughout India.
When the Government of Maharashtra offered him the
Vice-Chancellorship of the University of Mumbai, he politely
declined, stating that he wished to continue to serve the
Bhavan.
All the institutions of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan remained closed
on May 26, 2008 as a mark of respect to one of the pillars of
Bhavan and an eminent educationist of the Bhavan.
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