Shirdi Saibaba Temple, Shantiniketan Layout, Arekere, Bangalore

A new temple dedicated to Shirdi Saibaba, Manjunathaswamy, is coming up in Shantiniketan Layout, Arekre, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore. The schedule of completion dates are as below:

1. Sri Sai Dhyan Mandir (ground floor) December 2009
2. Sri Sai Baba Temple (first floor) December 2009
3. Sri Manjunatha Swamy Temple (first floor) December 2009
4. Park, Walking Track and Fountain December 2010
5. Dining Hall and Kitchen September 2011
6.Mahadwaram December 2011

Sai Dhyana Mandir
This Saidhyan mandir is a temporary creation, pending completion of counstruction of permanent Sai Dhyan Mandir. The purpose of creating this temporary counstruction is as under.

* To Provide a place for Sai devotees to offer their prayers
* To facilitate Sai devotees perform Bhajans and Keertans in front of BABA.
* To distribute Sai Mahaprasadam to all SAI devotees.
* To conduct discourses on Sai Tatvam
* To bring SAI more closer to the residents of this colony and also the adjacent colonies.
* To spread SAI philosophy in order to better the life of devotees.
* To provide various SAI literature for reading at the Dhyan Mandir
* To enable the devotees receive blessings from Sri SAI baba and live in peace all the time.

Devotees willing to sponsor for Prasada Viniyogam , please contact Mr M.Rama Krishna @ 2658-6975.

Sri sai santoshi Maata Charitable Trust
With an object to render service to needy and poor a Trust by name "Sri sai santoshi Maata Charitable Trust" is formed and the same got registered with Government of karnataka on 28-02-2008 by 63 Authors of Trust coming together for this good cause.

The objects of the said Trust are to promote the following 1. Education Welfare 2. Medical Welfare 3. Physical Welfare 4. Social Welfare 5. Knowledge enhancement of people who are in need of such support

To achieve the above mentioned objects, the Trust hasplans to construct 'Shantidham' consisting of Prayer Hall, Meditation Hall, Library and Community / Dining Hakk etc along with a beautiful Garden in the CA site in the north East corner of the Shanthiniketan Layout at an estimated cost of Rs 150-200 lakhs. The amount required to complete this project will be raised through donations from the residents of shanthinikethan Layout and various philanthropists staying in and around Bangalore.

When adequate corpus is created and the necessary infrastructure is ready, the Trust will get fully engaged in the following welfare activities.* Feeding the poor & needy once in a week initially and on all the days subsequently.* Providing clothes to people in orphanages* Supplying note books/text books to poor students, besides giving scholarships to the deserving.* Supplying free medicines besides subsidizing cost of medical treatment in all deserving cases.* Enrolling service minded volunteers at "Shanthidham" to enable them to render various services.* Arranging various Knowledge enhancement programs.* Allowing the people to enjoy nice breeze in the park both in morning and evening hours.

A) Members of Management Committee:
1. President - Sri Meda Rama Krishna - 93428-31588
2. Vice President - Sri Prakash Nerwani - 99725-344313.
Vice President - Sri Mukesh Verma - 98453-996524.
Secretary - Sri Paluvadi Subba Rao - 98457-458445.
Treasurer - Sri V.Sainath - 94488-511296.
Member - Sri Kuppa Raju - 98450-028167.
Member - Sri Ashok Babu - 93417-433678.
Member - Sri K.V.Krishnaiah Chetty - 99860-754569.
Member - Sri T.G.Venkateswara Gupta - 99022-84089

B) Religious Committee:
Leader : Shri T.G.Venkateswara Gupta - 99022-84089
Other Members: Smt K.V.Madhavi - 99802-20886
Smt Sitamani - 26485273

C) Medical Committee:
Leader : Smt N.Lakshmi Devi - 99169-71736
Other Members: Shri B.V.Ratnam Setty - 99163-04104

D) Food Committee:
Leader : Shri Sanjeev Kataria - 9845089103/9901745256
Other Members: Shri Mukesh verma - 9845399652/9343977727

E) Fund Raising Committee:
Leader : Shri P.V.Prabhakar Gupta - 26487355
Other Members: Shri M.Nagabhushana - 98806-98169

F) Construction Committee:
Leader : Shri K.ravindriah - 98867-18084
Shri v.Sainath - 94488-51129
Other Members: Shri B.J.Badrinath - 99455-15826

Leader of each committee may select some more Trustees/Devotees as members of their respective Committee in due course of time.