BHAGWAN MAHAVEER FOUNDATION OUR FLAGSHIP PROJECT BHAGWAN MAHAVEER FOUNDATION ijLijksixzgks thokuke~ OUR FLAGSHIP PROJECT PASSION CONTINUES (FOR SERVICE TO SOCIETY) SIYAT HOUSE, IV FLOOR, # 961, POONAMALLEE HIGH ROAD, CHENNAI 600084; PH: 044 42933300/3333 The entire group busy working - keen to serve society Email: [email protected]; Website: www.bmfawards.org SIYAT HOUSE, IV FLOOR, # 961, POONAMALLEE HIGH ROAD, CHENNAI 600084; PH: 044 42933300/3333 Email: [email protected]; Website: www.bmfawards.org The extended Singhvi family which acts as a compass for the family's charitable activities. A man of deep compassion which inspired the group's passion for community service © Sugal Group, 2015 The Book was published by Sugal Group First Edition 2015 Copies can be had from Sugal Group Siyat House 961, 4th Floor, Poonamalle High Road, Chennai-600 084. Phone No.: 044 42933333 Fax No.: 044 42933339 Email Id:[email protected]/[email protected] Summit Online Trade Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 6/35, W.E.A. Karol Bagh, New Delhi – 110005 Phone No. : 011 43758882 Email Id: [email protected] Printed at: Print Masters New Delhi-110020 www.printmastersindia.com INDEX NAME OF THE TRUST PAGE NO. 1. Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation 1 ` 2. Bhagwan Mahaveer Educational Trust 7 3. Empathy Foundation 11 4. Jainsindia Trust 17 5. Singhvi Charitable Trust 19 6. Vidhya Jyothi Trust 27 7. Role of other Trustees 32 8. Additional Activities by the Trustees of Sugal Group 39 9. Details of donations from the Trust to institutions 41 FOREWORD It may be recalled that a small compendium titled “Enduring Passion” (For Service to society) was brought out on the 1st of January 2014 briely outlining the activities of Sugal Group. The activities included those of the Singhvi Charitable Trust, Singhvi Scan & Diagnostic Centre, Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation, Empathy Foundation, Mumbai, Vidhya Jyothi Trust, Ganadipathy Tulsi's Jain Engineering College, Vellore and the Mahaveer Institute of Technology & Science at Jadan, Rajasthan. Before bringing out an updated version of this publication, we thought we should share the philosophy underlying our desire to take up these activities long before CSR came into vogue as a concept. A few years back, we started wondering why institutions and individuals undertake to serve the public without any expectation of rewards, material or otherwise. Generally, they work under dificult conditions in places where even basic facilities such as water, electricity and facilities of sanitation are not available. Their only object is to provide help to the weaker sections of the community, particularly the SCs, STs, women, the aged and children. On most occasions they do not receive any recognition for their series, but are satisied with a pleasant smile and on occasions a blessing. We started thinking of reasons for these entities undertaking such thankless tasks. After considerable introspection, we came to the conclusion that they do so out of their innate spirit of empathy and compassion, inherent in all. Some of them have been exposed to very dificult conditions in their childhood, have seen their parents, friends and relatives suffer for want of basic facilities and in quite a few cases suffer a lonely death uncared for and even unattended. Therefore, they felt that others in the society, to whom they relate, should not undergo such emotional and physical torture and hence they entered into areas of community service. These efforts are extremely laudable but much requires to be done. In fact, some of us do make it a point to renew the lingering fond memories of occasions or individuals who passed by us in the early parts of our life. Their memories linger with us forever but pass us by on occasions leetingly. Naming a new born after a family elder may provide emotional satisfaction to the members of the family. However constructing a school, a hospital or a hospice, would gladden the hearts of a large number of people and bring them much needed physical health, comfort and solace. It may even help people, in some cases spend a major portion of their life in decent circumstances. Over the years, the Sugal Group started building, brick by brick, certain Trusts in a systematic manner to serve the community. These have been broadly described in the (v) previous publication “Enduring Passion”. Our group, recently culminating in the establishment of Sugal Group is running three schools at Triplicane, Chennai through the Vidhya Jyothi Trust which provide quality education at modest fees. The group maintains a pathological lab where investigations include CT scan, Ultrasound scan and Digital X-ray which are provided to the public at reasonable rates. More about them in the succeeding pages. In addition our endeavours encompass: 1. The Provision of scholarships to the needy students; 2. The Provision of pension to widows and destitute and deserted women; 3. The Provision of assistance to the people undergoing heart surgery in recognized hospitals in the State 4. The Establishment of an Engineering College in Pali District namely Mahaveer Institute of Technology & Science (MITS) near the birth place of the ancestors of the family in Rajasthan. Scholarships are given to deserving students and no capitation fee is collected. 5. The group also manages an Engineering College at Vellore namely Ganadipathy Tulsi's Jain Engineering College (GTEC) which has the rare distinction of not collecting any capitation fee from aspiring students. 6. Further, the Empathy Foundation at Mumbai, assisting in the development of infrastructure & in spheres of education and health in Maharashtra State is managed by the Group. The Foundation has completed 90 schools measuring about 2.05 lacs sq.ft. and 18 schools are under construction in 14 districts. It has also adopted few villages, runs eye camps and has incurred an expenditure of over Rs. 50 Crores on these projects. 7. The Group has also adopted ive villages in Rajasthan under a State Government Scheme covering Jadan, Bhagawas, Siyat, Sojat Road and Dhunla in Pali District. 8. The Group has contributed 10 Acres in Village Gudappakkam near Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu to Rajasthani Educational Foundation Tamil Nadu for starting the Mahaveer International School. 9. Plans are well on way to establish a palliative care centre at Chennai at a cost of Rs. 17.5 crores to provide solace to the terminally ill patients. (vi) A heartwarming view of these activities has an emotional, physical and inancial support by the entire family and friends. The younger generation namely children and grandchildren are following the footsteps of their seniors. Hopefully, they would continue these spheres of activities. An interesting aspect of these efforts is the positive and dynamic support being provided by the ladies of the clan. You will ind that the Annex provides details of institutions such as their address, location and telephone numbers. This is being done because when, on an earlier occasion, a small volume entitled “Born to serve” was brought out by us; a number of our friends sought such details to enable them to make their own contribution to these institutions. We hope that our modest efforts would enable a large number of well wishers to make worthwhile contribution to these institutions. To the extent additional details are available with us, we will gladly provide them to those who seek such information. We close with the fond hopes that the community at large, particularly the afluent section thereof would rise to the occasion. We are sure that they would also be the recipients of the emotional satisfaction and sense of peace which we have received because of our modest efforts in this respect. It may be mentioned in passing that even voluntary physical help would be welcomed by some institutions since they do contribute emotional support to the patients. Before closing, we would like to add that in order to provide greater focus to our efforts in this regard, Sri Nanda Kishore, a retired civil servant has come forward to help the group as full time head of its CSR efforts. To conclude: The Passion for community service continues, not an iota less. May it long endure! (vii) 1. BHAGWAN MAHAVEER FOUNDATION Website: www.bmfawards.org In each corner of our country, there exist seless souls whose sole aim is to make the lives of the marginalized better. They desire neither riches nor fame. The reward they seek is a thank you or a boost in condence from those they are working for. A smile alone can tell them that their good work has borne fruit. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Sri S Prasanchand Jain - Managing Trustee Sri P V Krishnamurthy, IAAS (Retd) - Hony. Executive Trustee TRUSTEES Sri N Sugalchand Jain - Sri S Vinodh kumar Sri Pravin B Chheda - Sri Gunwant N Damani Sri Pramod Jain - Sri Pratik Jain Sri Paras Jain - Public Relations The world needs to know of these dedicated humanitarians so that more and more will be willing to give of their time and resources for those in need. With the aim of bringing such humanitarian work to light, the Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation was founded in 1994, with late Sri C. Subramaniam as the rst Chairman. The Foundation has instituted the Mahaveer Awards to identify, recognize and nurture public service rendered by institutions and individuals. To begin with, the Foundation has started in the year 1995 with one Award of Rs.5 Lac which went to Veerayatan, a service institute in Bihar. Subsequently, the number of awards (2nd & 3rd ) was increased to two covering the elds of Non-violence & Vegetarianism and Community & social service. Later the number of awards was increased to three (4th to 13th) covering the elds of Non-violence & Vegetarianism, Education & Medicine and Community & Social service. 1 Subsequently from the 14th award, the number of awards was raised to 4 elds such as 1.