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