A photo story on the people that provide crucial services to the IISc community
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Girigowda PS has been a security guard for four years. Prior to that he worked at a garment factory, and moved here at his family members’ insistence. Some of them work here as well.
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Annapoorna CS has been a hostel caretaker for six years. Her son is studying to be a medical doctor, she says, beaming with pride.
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Manjula has been part of the housekeeping staff at IISc’s residences since 2018.
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Chikkagangamma has worked with the womens’ hostel security team since 2018.
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Manjunath NS joined IISc in 2015 and works as a secretarial assistant at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) where he assists students and faculty members with administrative work.
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Anaxee Barman has been assisting students and professors in handling the animals at the Central Animal Facility. In the five and a half years she’s been at the Facility, never has a mouse escaped from her hands!
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Dr S Sudhanthiramani is a veterinarian and for the past four years has been helping students in the Central Animal Facility.
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For nine years now, G Vijayalakshmi has been taking care of Drosophila (a type of fruit fly) cultures in the undergraduate laboratory.
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Shilpa Mary has been assisting students in the undergraduate chemistry labs for seven years.
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Pramod K has been working in the Finance and Accounts section since 2010 and handles billing and reimbursements for faculty and students.
Gouri Patil, a former science writing intern in the Office of Communications (OoC) at IISc, is an Integrated PhD student in the Department of Physics