Niranjanbhai and Taraben Sharma
Congratulations on 80th Birthday and 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary...
Niranjanbhai G Sharma- known to all as Sharmaji, celebrated his 80th Birthday and 50th Wedding Anniversary to Taramati Sharma in October 2017.
Niranjanbhai was born in late 1937 in the village of Kadod in Surat District, Gujarat, where he also completed his primary and secondary school education. He gained a BSc degree from Garda College, Navsari in 1959 after which he took up teaching at a High School before arriving in the UK in 1962 for further education. Niranjanbhai gained a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Salford University, after which he settled down in Ashton-under-Lyne.
Niranjanbhai worked with the local community in Ashton-Under-Lyne and also started a school teaching Maths and English at first, and then weekly Gujarati classes. Children from three locations were driven by bus to the centre in Ashton-Under- Lyne. Many community children were given assistance with their education.
Niranjanbhai become well known for local community Sewa. Niranjanbhai worked with the local community to form a local Prajapati Samaj and played an important role to form SPA( UK). The first meeting of the 13 towns Prajapatis was called in Ashton-Under-Lyne where he was given the responsibility as a General Secretary of the Ad-hoc Committee, that was setup to think about the way forward to establishing a Prajapati Samaj, which then became SPA( UK) in 1975.
After three and half years of engagement with Taramati they married in 1967. It was an arranged marriage by way of committing to marry by seeing each other’ s photo, as was the case in those days. They have two daughters and five grand children.
To date their achievement and contribution within our community are something to be proud of:
Niranjanbhai has severed SPA( UK) as a Secretary from 1979- 1980 and as President in 1985. Taramati has served as a Mahila Convenor in 1981 and 1991, as a Sandesh
Editor in 1984 and more recently as a Secretary of the Seniors committee from 2014 to 2016.
In October 2017 Niranjanbhai celebrated his 80th Birthday and 50th Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations and may God bless them both with good health.
From SPA( UK).
34 vol. 42 | Prajapati Sandesh 2017