NEEMA was founded by some enthusiastic doctors living and working in Newcastle in 2003. This initially was limited to only a few families, but over a period of time, members increased exponentially.
Founder members:
Dr Sulabha Desai & Dr Shrinivas Desai
Dr Varsha Deshpande & Dr Sanjay Deshpande
Mrs Anjali Dixit & Dr Shekhar Dixit
Dr Manda Joshi & Dr Jeevan Joshi
Anuradha Kulkarni & Dr Ravi Kulkarni
Dr Leena Pardeshi & Dr Rajendra Pardeshi
The initial inauguration of NEEMA was done by the music concert performed by Mrs. Asha Khadilkar. With increasing interests, NEEMA has invited many prominent personalities in various fields as their chief guests.
The current NEEMA committee is keen to make the organisation even bigger with more exciting programmes. Their ethos is to try and integrate as many younger generation members into our traditional marathi programmes.
Executive Committee - 2023-2024
1) Varsha Deshpande
2) Leena Pardeshi
3) Nikhil Nivsarkar
Executive Committee - 2019 - 2022
1) Bubby Kaur
2) Abhishek Garge
3) Pranav Kalke
Executive Committee – 2017-2018
1) Dr. Shinu Desai
2) Mrs. Anjali Dixit
3) Dr. Parag Narkhede
Executive Committee – 2015-2016
1) Mr. Rohan Murkunde
2) Dr. Raju Pardeshi
3) Dr. Varsha Deshpande
4) Mrs. Bubby Kaur
Executive Committee – 2013-2014
1) Dr Rajiv Limaye
2) Dr Alok Godse
3) Dr Parag Narkhede
4) Mrs Anu Kulkarni
5) Ms Shalmali Deshpande
Executive Committee – 2011-2012
1) Dr Sachin Mannikar
2) Dr Anand Dixit
3) Dr Asmita Dixit
4) Dr Rahul Dharmadhikari
5) Dr Yogesh Upadhye
6) Dr Raju Pardeshi
7) Dr Jeevan Joshi
Executive Committee - 2009-2010
1) Dr Manju Narayan
2) Dr Ashish Gulve
3) Mrs Sangeeta Murkunde