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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Shayama Chona<br />
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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1942|8|12|df=yes}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Rajasthan]], [[British India]]<br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|residence = [[New Delhi]], India<br />
|occupation=[[Educationist]],<br/> Disability Rights Activist, Author <br/>Founder and President of [[Tamana Association]] [[New Delhi]]<br/><br />
Ex- [[Head teacher|Principal]] of [[Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram]]<br />
|website= {{URL|http://www.tamana.org/}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Shayama Chona''' (born 12 August 1942) is the Founder-President of [[Tamana Association]] (established. 1984) and the former Principal of [[Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Farewell to outgoing Principal Dr. Shayama Chona|publisher=Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram| url = http://www.dpsrkp.net/webgallery/farewell/pages/DSC04310.htm<br />
| access-date = 2014-01-06}}</ref> In 1997, she was presented with the National Award for Individual for Best Work Done in The Cause of the Disabled. Under her leadership as President of the Governing Council, [[Tamana Association]] received the First Mother Teresa Award for its dedicated services to the intellectually impaired.<ref>[http://www.educationbiz.in/2013/shayama.php]</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = A DPS Principal's Plan For Educating Underprivileged Children |publisher=Outlook|author= Aru Srivastava | url = http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?207695 |date=28 June 1999| access-date = 2014-01-06 }}</ref><br />
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She has also been awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2008 and [[Padma Shri]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009)|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|archive-date=10 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> in 1999.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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[[Tamana Association]] was conceived on the basis of the name, "Tamana", her daughter, who was born with cerebral palsy. The first centre, Tamana Special School was inaugurated by Her Royal Highness, [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], on 12 February 1992.<ref>[http://www.tamana.org/Welcome.aspx Tamana, March 1984]</ref><br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
* '''2008''': Awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2008<br />
* '''1999''': Received Padma Shri in 1999<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.tamana.org/ Tamana Official website]<br />
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{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2000–09}}<br />
{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Literature & Education}}<br />
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[[Category:1942 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Heads of schools in India]]<br />
[[Category:Activists from Rajasthan]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]<br />
[[Category:Indian disability rights activists]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education]]</div>>Anthony Masc