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Organizational Structure of the Temple

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The all governing bodies of the Temple consist of volunteers from the dues paying members. The Temple has its own constitution and by-laws which are applied to form various committees. The term for most committees is the calendar year.

The Temple has a board consisting of 15 trustees (12 elected and 3 appointed). The daily day to day activities and planning of the various religious and cultural activities and other administrative aspects are overseen by the Executive Committee. This committee consists of a President, President-elect, Secretary, Joint Secretary, Treasurer, Joint Treasurer and Committee Co-ordinator. Members of the Executive Committee are appointed every year by the Board of Trustees from the voting membership. The Chairpersons of the standing committee are selected but the Executive Committee and approved by the Board of Trustees. Some of the standing committess are are: Religious Committee, Education Committee, Bal Bharati, Maintenance Committee, Membership Committee, Prasad Committee, Finance Committee and Chetana (the Temples official quarterly magazine). Most of these committees are formed for the calendar year and report to the Executive Committee.

The other standing Committees are Long Range Planning Committee and the Constitution and By-laws Committee, Audit Committee, Nominating and Election Committee. Chairs of these committees are appointed by the Board of Trustees. In addition, the Board and the Executive Committee may occasionally form certain ad-hoc special purpose committees with specific objectives in mind. These committees terminate as soon as the specific objective has been achieved.

Board of Trustees 2010

Executive Committee 2010

Chairperson: Bhimsen Rao

Vice Chairperson: Chandrakant Desai

Secretary:Minal Engineer

Board Members:
Ambalal Patel, Arun Agarwal

Ashish Mody,Balarama Murty, Chithra Chakrapani

Madan Kaura, Mohinder Diwan, Nidhi Khattree

Nutan Oak,Sabala Mandava,Talanki Viswanath

Usha Ram,Velji Kansara,Verinder Aggarwal

President : Inder Jit Saini

President Elect : Raman Bhai Patel

Secretary: Mahesh Kotnis

Joint Secretary: Koteswarlu Divi

Treasurer: Chithra Chakrapani

Joint Treasurer:Suman Desai

Ex-Officio : Shyam Maheshwari

Committee Coordinator: Ruta Desai

Bharatiya Temple Working Committees
Committe	Name
Adult and Seniors	Seema Shah
Advertisement	TBD
Balbharati	Shama Kenkare
Cultural	Narendra Sheth
Education	Rajkumar Ramamurthy
Gift Shop	Swaran Batra
Gurukul	Sheshu Yalamanchi
Information Systems	Ganesh Moorthy, Hema Kulkarni, Sriram Parathasarathy
Kitchen and Prasad	Viswanathan, Uma Divi, Peelu Kumar, Pushpa Mallya
Library	Sharan Kashayup Dutt
Maintenance	Dinesh Billore
Membership	Satish Dharwadkar
Outreach	Padma Kuppa
Public Relations	Hemal dave, Shyam Maheshwari, Keshav Agarwal
Publication, Chetna and Flyer	Mahendra kenkre, Devadatta Kulkarni
Religious	Nayan Patel, Anand Varadarajan
Safety, Security and Loss prevention	Sameer Hukku
SEVA	Madan Kaura
Volunteer Co-ordinator	Lalit Sethi
Welcome and Front Desk	Urmila Agarwal

Office Manager : Prasadita(Hema) Kulkarni

Secretaries : Shweta Kotnis Madhuri Sawkar , Rupali Kamat

Priests : Ramachandra Bhat, Janakirama Sastry Vithala

Custodian : Jamie Perry

Address:
6850 Adams Road, Troy, Michigan 48098
Phone: (248) 879-2552
Email: admin@bharatiya-temple.org

Temple Hours(For Winter) :
Mon-Fri: 9:00 am - 12:30 noon, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Sat & Sun: 9:00 am - 2:30 pm, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Office Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sat-Sun: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm, 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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