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{{short description|Indian social worker}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kanta Saroop Krishen
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| birth_date = 1929
| birth_place = [[West Punjab]], [[British India]]
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| occupation = Social worker
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| known for = Voluntary blood donation initiative
| spouse = Swarup Krishen
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| children = One son and two daughters
| parents = R. B. Vishan Bhagwan
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Red Cross]] Gold Medal<br>[[H. D. Shourie]] Award<br>[[Mother Teresa]] Award<br>[[Rajiv Gandhi]] Award
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'''Kanta Saroop Krishen''' is an Indian social worker and one of the founders of the Blood Bank Society, [[Chandigarh]] and the Indian Society of [[Blood transfusion]] and Immunohaematology.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} She is known to have worked for spreading the message of voluntary [[blood donation in India]]{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} and is a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] for the year 1972 from the [[Government of India]].<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Kanta Sarup Krishen, née Kanta Bhagwan, was born in 1929 in West Punjab (presently in Pakistan) in [[British India]] in a rich family to R. B. Vishan Bhagwan, a former chairman of the [[Union Public Service Commission]].<ref name="K. S. Krishen Page 3,4">{{cite web | url=http://www.sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-3-Page-4.jpg | title=K. S. Krishen Page 3,4 | publisher=Sector News | date=2015 | access-date=5 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315185807/http://sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-3-Page-4.jpg | archive-date=15 March 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She is reported to have been studious in her studies and passed the matriculation examination with scholarship.<ref name="K. S. Krishen Page 3,4" /> She got married at the age of 16<ref name="K. S. Krishen Page 3,4" /> to Sarup Krishen, an Indian Administrative Service officer who would later become the first chief secretary of the state of [[Haryana]].<ref name="Saroop Krishen: a fine legacy for others to emulate">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061221/mailbag.htm | title=Saroop Krishen: a fine legacy for others to emulate | newspaper=The Tribune | date=21 December 2006 | access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Saroop Krishen">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061212/main10.htm | title=Saroop Krishen | newspaper=The Tribune | date=12 December 2006 | access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> In Chandigarh, she met [[J. G. Jolly]], then professor and head of the department of transfusion medicine at the [[Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research]] and started associating with Jolly's efforts in combating commercial blood donations which posed the danger of unsafe blood.<ref name="K. S. Krishen Page 3,4" /> She assisted Jolly in the establishment of the Blood Bank Society, Chandigarh (BBS) and the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohaematology (ISBTI)<ref name="K. S. Krishen Page 3,4" /> and became the founder secretary general of ISBTI,{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} a post she held for 45 years.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 1,2">{{cite web | url=http://www.sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-1-Page-2.jpg | title=K S Krishen Page 1,2 | publisher=Sector News | date=2015 | access-date=5 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315231823/http://sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-1-Page-2.jpg | archive-date=15 March 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She served BBS as its secretary for 25 years and the Blood Centre of the organisation is housed in a building constructed with a donation of {{INR}} 5 million from her brother, Sudhir Bhagwan.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 1,2" /> She has also been associated with the [[Indian Red Cross Society]], Women's Defence Council, [[Bharat Scouts and Guides]] and Child Welfare Council (CWC){{citation needed|date=August 2015}} and has served as the secretary of CWS.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 1,2" />

Kanta Krishen was one of the associates of [[H. D. Shourie]] when he gathered information and filed a civil writ petition at the [[Supreme Court of India]] against the commercial practices in blood donation on which the apex court of India returned a judgment banning commercial blood donation.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 5,6">{{cite web | url=http://www.sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-5-Page-6.jpg | title=K S Krishen Page 5,6 | publisher=Sector News | date=2015 | access-date=5 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315185007/http://sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-5-Page-6.jpg | archive-date=15 March 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, she organised several awareness campaigns and presented papers at various conferences in India and abroad.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 5,6" /> She also participated in the activities of [[Sant Nirankari Mission]], a spiritual organisation based in Delhi.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 5,6" /> Her efforts were also reported behind the formulation of the National Blood Donation Policy by the [[Government of India]].<ref name="K S Krishen Page 5,6" />

Sarup Krishen, her husband died in 2006<ref name="Saroop Krishen to live beyond death">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061212/main8.htm | title=Saroop Krishen to live beyond death | newspaper=The Tribune | date=12 December 2006 | access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> leaving behind their son, Sanjiv Krishen and two daughters, Niti Sarin and Anu Ganju.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 7,8">{{cite web | url=http://www.sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-7-Page-8.jpg | title=K S Krishen Page 7,8 | publisher=Sector News | date=2015 | access-date=5 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315200436/http://sectornews.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mrs-Kanta-Saroop-Krishen-Page-7-Page-8.jpg | archive-date=15 March 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded her the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1972.<ref name="Padma Shri" /> She is also a recipient of [[Red Cross]] Gold Medal, [[H. D. Shourie]] Award, [[Mother Teresa]] Award and [[Rajiv Gandhi]] Award.<ref name="K S Krishen Page 1,2" />

==See also==
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* [[J. G. Jolly]]
* [[H. D. Shourie]]
* [[Sant Nirankari Mission]]
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==References==
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