a permanent member of the CABE Committee on Decentralised Management of Education (1993) set up by the Central Advisory Board of Education She served as a member of the National Literacy Mission and was involved with the International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education (IIALE) as a member of its International Consultative Committee. She was in close association with the Government of Maharashtra and served in various capacities as the Director of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Director of Higher Education and Director of Education. Naik is the author of the books, Shikshan ani Samaj (Marathi), Educational innovation in India, and Lokmanya Tilak as Educational Thinker. She has also written many books for children of which four were published by the National Book Trust in fourteen languages. Death Towards the later part of her life, Naik suffered from heart and lung diseases and was admitted to hospital in December 2010. The treatment could not save her and she died on the Christmas eve of 2010, at the age of 92, at Pune, survived by her niece, Aruna Giri. Awards and honours Chitra Naik was a recipient of the Pranawanand Award for Educational Research of the University Grants Commission and Jeevan Sadhana Award of the University of Pune. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour Padma Shri in 1986 and she received the first Karma Veer Bahurao Patil Samaj Seva Award in 1989. The Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA) selected her for the Tagore Literacy Award in 1992 and the same year, UNESCO awarded her the Raja Roy Singh Award. This was followed by the Rajiv Gandhi Award for social Service and the UNESCO Jan Amos Comenius International Award and, in 2002, she received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award from the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. Bibliography See also Jayant Pandurang Naik Planning Commission of India National Literacy Mission Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education References Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education 1918 births 2010 deaths Writers from Pune Marathi people Indian women educational theorists Indian women science writers Indian social sciences writers University of Mumbai alumni Columbia University alumni Social workers English-language writers from India Social workers from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian educational theorists 20th-century Indian women scientists 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian writers Women writers from Maharashtra 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian writers 21st-century Indian educational theorists Scientists from