Padmashri Krishnammal Jagannathan has established a total of seven non-governmental institutions for the poor. She has been a Senate member of the Gandhigram Trust and University and Madurai University. She was also a member of the National Committee on Education, the Land Reform Committee and the Planning Committee.

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