7th June, 2002
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports  


DR. MAHESH CHANDRA TAKES OVER AS VICE-CHAIRPERSON OF NYKS


Former member of Rajya Sabha, Dr. Mahesh Chandra is the new Vice-Chairperson of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghatan (NYKS). He takes over from Sh. V Muraleedharan who has been nominated as the Director General of the Sanghatan. Dr. Sharma will hold this post for three years. Till recently he was the chief whip of the BJP in Rajya Sabha and was represented on several Parliamentary Committees including the Standing Committee on External Affairs.

NYKS is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. It has country’s largest network of youth volunteers and has been active in national building activities eversince it was constituted in 1972.

Dr. Sharma is an avid scholar and writer and holds the unique distinction of working relentlessly on the various aspects of Integral Humanism, the philosophy propounded by the late Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. Dr. Sharma has also been active in youth and student activities and held various senior positions in the country’s largest student organisation, the ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.