The Bharatiya Temple - Troy, MI
The Bharatiya Temple - Troy, MI


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 2011 Executive Committee 2011
Chairperson: Usha S. Ram

Vice Chairperson: Tom Patel

Secretary: Nidhi Khattree

Board Members:

Ambalal Patel, Anand Varadarajan, Bhavani Garapati,

Chandrakant Desai, Chithra Chakrapani, Gobind Garg,

Mamtha Guduguntla, Mohinder Diwan, Nutan Oak,

Shamla Kalyan, Vasanti Bhakta

 President : Raman Patel

President Elect : S.Viswanathan

Secretary: Mahaveer Khetawat

Joint Secretary: Koteswarlu Divi

Treasurer: Nayan Patel

Joint Treasurer:Suman Desai

Ex-Officio : Inderjit Saini

Committee Coordinator: Swati Paranjape

Bharatiya Temple Working Committees
Committe Name
Adult and Seniors Seema Shah
Balbharati Hemal Dave
Cultural Mrinalini Arkatkar
Education Suman Hukku
Gift Shop Swaran Batra
Gurukul Rajkumar Ramamurthy
Information Systems Ganesh Moorthy
Kitchen and Prasad Arun Pandya
Library Sunder Hukku
Maintenance Amir Tandon
Membership Hiten Kothari, Shashi Rao
Outreach Anjali Vale, Padma Kuppa
Publication, Chetna and Flyer Devadatta Kulkarni
Public Relations Janakirama Sastry, Usha Ram, Raman Patel,
Hema Kulkarni, Madhuri Sawkar, Shweta Kotnis
Religious Shanta Viswanathan
Website Ganesh Moorthy, Hema Kulkarni
SEVA Bindu Suresh, Ramanath Vutukuru

Office Manager : Prasadita(Hema) Kulkarni

Secretaries : Shweta Kotnis    Madhuri Sawkar 		Priests : Ramachandra Bhat,   Janakirama Sastry Vithala

Custodian : Jamie Perry