Ahalya Chari was an Indian educationist and the first commissioner of the Kendriya Vidyalaya chain of schools, a system of education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development India.
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Ahalya Chari's efforts are recognised towards the establishment of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under the MHRD, attending to the educational needs of the children of transferable central government employees.
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Ahalya Chari was born in 1921 in Rangoon, the capital of British Burma, to Rajalakshmi Chari and Kasturi Rajagopal Chari as the eldest of their seven children.
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Ahalya Chari did her schooling at a girl's convent school run under the British curriculum and graduated from the University of Rangoon in English Literature in 1941.
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Ahalya Chari worked with KVS till 1976 when she came under the influence of Jiddu Krishnamurti and joined the Indian philosopher to work at the Rajghat Education Centre in Varanasi.
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Ahalya Chari's next move was to Madras in 1982 as the principal of The School, one of the schools of the Krishnamurti Foundation of India.
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Ahalya Chari continued her association with the KFI institutions and established an Alumni Forum of The School for exchange of information.
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Ahalya Chari stayed a few years at the campus of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, invited by Radha Burnier.
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Ahalya Chari started the Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools and edited them for a number of years.
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Ahalya Chari published two books, Thinking Together, published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training in 1997, and Selections from the Decades: On Self-Knowledge, published by KFI in 2001.
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Ahalya Chari delivered lectures including one on 'Knowledge and the Disciplines'.
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Ahalya Chari died on 30 March 2013 at the age of 91 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.