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Introduction
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Manan Chaturvedi (born 17 November 1973) is a social activist for child rights awareness of mishappening around the world with children. From 2016-19 she was the Chairperson of Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. She started Surman Sansthan on 31 January 1998 which works to provide shelter and other necessary amenities for destitute and abandoned children and women. She has a World Record of continuous 72 hours painting show at Statue Circle, Jaipur. She also publishes a monthly magazine "Bougain Villaea", where she writes and raises the issues related to children and some real incidents.

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Early Life
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Manan Chaturvedi was born at Sarojini Naidu District Hospital in Firozabad, Uttarpradesh (INDIA) on 17th November 1973. She was born as a rare or unusual child. She did not cry for half an hour at the time of birth. Even the doctors considered her as a dead baby but they kept trying, after half an hour she started crying and everybody was relived. Her father, Swatantra Prakash Chaturvedi worked at State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, and her mother Mrs. Kamlesh Chaturvedi, a house maker. She is the eldest of three sisters. She did her primary education at Tagore Public School, Jaipur (Rajasthan). Then, she completed her senior secondary from Maharani Higher Secondary School, Jaiupr. Later on, she got admission into Maharani College, Jaipur (Rajasthan) where she completed her Bachelor of Arts. Later on did Fashion Designing course in 1994 from South Delhi Polytechnic for Women, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. She got married to Surendra Chaturvedi on 8th May 1995, a journalist by profession.

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Being a mother by nature
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Sometimes nature plays her role, in this case nature has destined her to serve. While taking care of her three biological kids and family she used to go to slum areas in Jaipur for distributing cloths, toys, sweets and sometime making paintings for them. This inspired her to take care of these children this inspiration embedded the seed of motherhood. She found a girl named "Gauri" who had a severe on her head and bleeding badly. She took the baby to J. K. Lon Hospital and stayed there with girl for three days. After recovery of that girl when Manan went to the slum, people requested her to take the girl child to her own home. She did the same and journey started from that day. In that very month she got eight more children then number increased after that who came from where was never an issue. In fact, at that time there were not any kind of law for these abandoned and destitute children. The journey has been continuing she has become the mother of more than 110 children residing at "Surman Sansthan". For need and emotions of these children, usually it took long hours to convince people.

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As a Painter
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Her passion for these destitute and abandoned children turned up her to become "Rangreza (A Versatile Painter)". When she does painting she wears a particular uniform to show her commitment for each and every child right. Through these painting shows she makes appeal to the society to understand emotion and needs of these kids and this is the assurance of her commitment till the last breath. She is not a painter by profession but when she does painting which is very close to her heart. She is a soldier fighting for the rights of the children and wants to aware the people too, for the same purpose and this particular uniform gives her joy and she feels uniformity that's all. She says, "I wear this special uniform to remind me to protect the childhood and bound myself for each and every moment of life and ongoing painting shows. She made world record of continuous 72 hours painting show at Statue Circle, Jaipur. Beside this she has done 17 painting shows of continuous 24 hours in different parts of India like: 2 times in Ajmer, 2 times in Ahmedabad, 2 times in Rajkot, 2 times in Vadodara, 2 times in Surat and Jodhpur, Udaipur, Mount Abu, Bikaner, Kota, Anand and Jaipur.

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As a chairperson- Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Right
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Having considered the work of Manan Chaturvedi, the government has not only appointed her as the Chairperson of the Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Right but also given her the status of Minister of State for the same. This was very first experience of the administration work. Here not only she had to learn but also had to teach the people working around her and to make them aware the value of children and their childhood. Here her traveling nature help her a lot. She used to travel a lot per day to see the condition of the children in the far area. She covered the whole international border in Rajasthan, she named it- "Bharat Mala Bachpan Yatra". During this she visited Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar and even the very remotest tehsils and areas close to border: Chohtan, Gadara Road, Sheo, Jaisalmer, Pokaran, Kolayat, Khajuwala, Ghadsana, Anoopgarh,Raisingh Nagar, Sri Karanpur, Sri Ganganagar. She not only visited but also worked hard in the tribal areas like: Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Rajsamand and Sirohi. She stayed there and organized Medical health care camps when the seasonal disease were on the peak. She also took an initiative to build Bal Mandirs in these areas dedicated to the childhood of these innocent children. She helped in opening a Children Friendly Police Station in Dholpur (Rajasthan), which was named by "Bal Mandir Police Station". This area is considered as crime potential area. She instructed all the NGO's to organize "Bal Saptah" every year and also took feedback. She also kept on doing her Live painting shows for the cause of helping these children.

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Founder of Surman Sansthan
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This all happened when in 1994, an aspirant fashion designer was ready to begin her journey and was on her way to Delhi to fulfill her dreams but saw tiny tittle 7 years old starved girl near garbage eagerly searching something to eat, the very moment the aspirant fashion designer became very sensitive and this incident touched her heart very deeply. She decided not to make the colorful dresses for the rich people but for these kinds of abandoned and destitute children. She did not go to United Kingdoms but returned back. She was always surrounded by the thoughts to help these children. In the meanwhile she got married in 1995 and her eldest daughter was born in 1998. She kept on going to the slum areas and used to distribute biscuits, notebooks, chocolates, pencils to the kids. The Surman Sansthan has rehabilitated 370 children into their families, 110 children are living at the Surman Sansthan presently. Surman Sansthan is running four projects:
 * Palna : Surman Palna is a shelter home where the abandoned and destitute children are given the foundation of happiness and their successful future.
 * Koshish : This program support and encourage women who have been suffering in the hands of fate and their own family members. Through Koshish, we strive to make these women self dependent.
 * Jeevan : A distress call from helpless parents, pleading for support for the treatment of their children gave birth to another initiative called Jeevan. She started temporary adoption of the children needing medical aid and parents who are not in a position to bear the expenses.
 * Tapasya : It is an effort by the Surman Family to extend helping hands to the children who need financial help for education. We have been successful in supporting children by the way of sponsoring their education.

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Awards and Honours
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 * Veer Savarkar National Award, Pune for social work on 28th May 2017
 * Terapanth Mahila Mandal, Jaipur on 15th March 2011
 * Women Reorganization Award (The Heart of Gold) by 95 FM Tadka
 * Bade Dil wale Award in 2013 by 93.5 RED FM
 * Alok Bharti Rajasthan Bhushan Award
 * Prof. Yashwant Rao Kelkar Yuva Award in 2011 by ABVP
 * Dhadkan 2012, Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur
 * Kesari Women Award by Punjab Kesari, Delhi in 2011
 * Think India by IIM Ahmedabad in 2013
 * Brahman Ratna Award, Sarv Brahman Mahasabha
 * Honoured by State Bank of India for outstanding services for orphans