Gajanan Jagannath Mane

Gajanan Jagannath Mane (born 14 May 1949 In 2013, Mane was conferred the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honor by the Government of India, in the field of Social work. He won Sangram Medal,

He addressed the livelihood challenges of leprosy patients in Hanuman Nagar leprosy colony by implementing various initiatives. These included establishing a ration shop, facilitating the setup of a municipal hospital for leprosy treatment, organizing schooling for children, and creating employment opportunities for 40 youths from Vasahati within the Kalyan Dombivli Municipality. He also initiated training programs for women in sewing, providing them with sewing machines through a government scheme. He also launched a house-to-house business for the production and marketing of candles, and incense sticks, Chalk sticks, running of a dairy farm contributing to both economic empowerment and community support.

In 2011, the rehabilitation center was awarded the first prize for its dairy farm project by the Sasakawa Leprosy Foundation, Japan. He earned the Sangram Medal for his service in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

He has received multiple accolades, such as the Gunwant Kamgar Puraskar in 1993 from the Government of Maharashtra, the Kushtha Rugna Seva Karya Puraskar from the Ex-servicemen Board, Thane district, the Kushtha Rugna Seva Puraskar from the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation, and the Samaj Utthan Puraskar from the Government of Maharashtra in 2018.