Mobile Healthcare Unit by Subrata Roy’s Sahara Group

Sahara hospital is a multi-specialty, tertiary care hospital located at Lucknow. With the vision of Mr Subrata Roy to provide healthcare to all, It started delivering its services from February 2009. At present, Sahara hospital can provide beds to 350 patients at a time and by the end of second phase, it is planning to accommodate 554 patients.

In this social initiative by Subrata Roy, Sahara Mobile Healthcare Unit along with in-house service they are also providing free primary health care services on regular basis to rural and backward areas. For this, Sahara group has been running the “Janaswasthya” program. In October 2005, they launched Mobile Health Unit project under this program.

The results of this project motivated the organization to expand their service area. Initially Mr. Subrata Roy started their project in Gorakhpur district but later they covered many other backward districts such as: Sitapur and Bahraich. More than 11.91 lakh people were benefited by this service.

Sahara group has extended this project to rural areas of Lucknow, Farukkhabad and Balangir (district of Orissa). They solve primary health problems of individuals by providing regular health check-ups and medicines free of cost.

Among the individuals who get benefited by their services, around 60% are women. They are also conducting health and hygiene education in such areas. Apart from this, they also organize health camps and provide medical services during any natural disaster.

In the year, July 2010, they extended their free health care services at district of Murshidabad through Mobile Healthcare Unit vans. They covered around 24 villages of Murshidabad. In each Mobile Healthcare Unit van, you will find a qualified doctor, a pharmacist, an administrative support staff and a driver.

They have all required health equipments and medicines along with them. They provide them free of cost to the patients. As Sahara group is generating awareness regarding health and hygiene in these areas, their death rate is declining and health level is rising day by day.

Government is also supporting Subrata Roy’s initiative, in providing the services by inaugurating their programs and motivating them to go forward in this direction. Mobile Healthcare Unit project is limited to few areas currently but Sahara Group is extending it and soon it will reach at each and every corner of our country.

Now the inhabitants of rural areas will also have a good health level. This will directly enhance the growth rate of our country as only healthy individuals can contribute in the growth of a nation.

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Behaviour Change Communication Project: An initiative by Subrata Roy

Subrata Roy's Sahara India Pariwar is a major business conglomerate in India with operations in multiple sectors, including financial services, housing finance, mutual funds, life insurance, city development, real estate activities, print and television media, film production, sports, information technology, healthcare, tourism, hospitality, commodity sales & services and consumer products. Subrata Roy's Sahara Group which is one of the largest business conglomerate of India has been over a decade is financially and emotionally supporting the families of martyrs who displayed the unmatched valor and courage at the time when our nation was under attack.

Sahara works on various projects like Nutrition, Literacy, Vocational Training, Civic Development, Behavioral Change, Communication and Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged People. Under the Behaviour Change Communication Project, Sahara India Pariwar makes effort to cater to social and mental problems of the children of the age group of 3-14 yrs. The main objective of this project is to treat those children who are suffering from Slow Learning, Learning Disability, Emotional Behavioural problems, Behaviour not in accordance with law and social norms, Temper tantrums, Bedwetting or Enuresis etc.

Sahara also works on various Health programmes, including Mobile Healthcare Units under which 49 medical vans across the country are running 30 days a month, throughout the year, taking free primary healthcare services to the remotest rural areas where medical services do not exist. Sahara Welfare Foundation, the social development unit of Sahara India Pariwar, is engaged in social welfare projects, alleviating people's sufferings and bringing to them new rays of hope and a brighter tomorrow. The projects of Sahara Welfare Foundation focus on women and disabled who are socially and economically deprived.

Sahara India Pariwar has established the Center for Handicapped to address the nationwide problems of physically challenged brethren. It aims at identifying the types of problems faced by the disabled persons, providing early identification guidelines, assessing disability, providing management & guidance for guardians of disabled. Facilities like physical & audio-metric tests, speech therapy, I.Q tests, repairing of co-appliances, providing essential aids & appliances on short-term basis is being provided through experienced specialists in the relevant fields.

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Disaster Management by Sahara Group of Subrata Roy

Sahara India Pariwar of Subrata Roy has always been prompt in its services towards the nation. Sahara India Pariwar's commitment to Social Welfare is evident from the fact that 25% of its profits every year are dedicated towards social development activities. The Corporate social responsibility is tied to all the brands but there are just a few like Subrata Roy Sahara of Sahara Group which take the social skill not just for the sake of responsibility but for the real sense and feelings wrapped up in the responsibility. Sahara is likely to be one of those few for its constant and steady dedication towards the society and the needy.

Sahara Welfare Foundation has, since its inception, been active in the area of extending relief services during natural disasters be it the super cyclone of Orissa, drought in Rajasthan, floods in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Bihar or Earthquake in Gujarat. Sahara Welfare Foundation also aims to take up studies on issues related to social development. Under its Disaster Management initiatives, Sahara has always stood up in the need of the hour of the country, be it super cyclone of Orissa, earthquake in Gujarat, drought in Rajasthan or floods in the state of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Sahara has adopted Bhimasar-Chakasar village in Taluka Anjar, District Kutch for relocation, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the village along with basic amenities, panchayat ghar, bus stop, post office, play ground, primary and secondary school and street lights.

One of the villages affected by the earthquake that occurred in Latur district of Maharashtra was adopted by Sahara India Pariwar for relocation and rehabilitation. When the devastating earthquake hit Latur district of Maharashtra, Sahara India Pariwar came forward to rehabilitate the earthquake stricken citizens of the region and also developed a cluster of earthquake houses in Killari Village in Latur. Sahara Welfare Foundation, the social development unit of Sahara India Pariwar, is engaged in social welfare projects, alleviating people's sufferings and bringing to them new rays of hope and a brighter tomorrow. The projects of Sahara Welfare Foundation focus on women and disabled who are socially and economically deprived. Its aim is to initiate and facilitate such processes where socially and economically deprived people and communities are able to participate actively in the process of their development so that they may lead a life of dignity and respect.

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Subrata Roy Sahara beautifies north Indian cities

Looking at the deteriorating condition of the city, Subrata Roy Sahara, the chairman of the Sahara Group volunteered to contribute his efforts to make the country look rather more beautiful. He has been very popular for his charity works and contribution activities to the society. And with this project he moved a few steps ahead. Sahara group unleashed an array of beautification programmes.

The manager for the social work by Sahara mentioned in her interview that Subrata Roy has planned to target the main attractions of a beautiful town which are well-planned crossings, greenery, preserved monuments and places of historical interest. Sahara Group has been continuously endeavoring to contribute towards the nation in environmental arena via environmental protection measures. The sect of the group has been ensuring lush greenery through tree plantations and has made the towns of the north india fortunate to host other beautification and sustenance modes/programmes.

We will do every possible thing to make our country look, feel and live in better in all the probable ways”, says Sahara caretaker, Subrata Roy Sahara. He continued by saying, “Some of the major beautification endeavors that we have successfully embarked on include Sankalp Vatika (Lucknow), Prerna Park (Lucknow), Sankalp Udyan and Sankalp Sthal (Gorakhpur), Sahara Crossing (Hardoi), Sankalp Chowk, Muzaffarpur and Sahara Gram (Gujarat) and other places that have enhanced the beauty of the places they had been constructed in”.

Social work by Sahara has always been at a higher and better level and so is the series of the beautification programmes. The program also included numerous tree plantation drives
Sahara. There were also numerous tree plantation drives at different places which left their share in the increasing the oxygen level in the atmosphere. Subrata Roy Sahara has, once again, become the idol for the entrepreneurs who run away from their social responsibility which actually arrives with the corporate strengths.

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Subrata Roy Sahara initiates the Civic Development Project

Subrata Roy's Sahara group came forward to put efforts in the arena of development of basic civic amenities and infrastructure which the mainland of our country is yearning for. Subrata Roy Sahara has initiated the project that roams around the development of infrastructure and basic amenities. This project has been undertaken by Sahara Group as the Charity for Civic Development so that the increasing demand and pressure that involves around the city is settled. The project basically includes activities like construction of public utilities and hand pumps and other basic infrastructure facilities.

The objective of this civic development by Subrata Roy Sahara is to develop people friendly ambience and environment in general and tourist places in particular, ensure availability of basic civic amenities in adoption homes, slums, densely populated areas as well as beautification of neglected parks, road crossings and traffic junctions in selected cities, construction. “ We want to be of complete assistance to people in all the areas and it is for this reason that we, in addition to our programmes for health, vocation, rehabilitation, literacy and may more, we shifted a part of our focus towards has been successful in constructing various forms of infrastructure including Sankalp Udyan (Town Hall) & Sankalp Sthal at Gorakhpur, Jindpeer crossing at Hardoi, Sankalp Vatika & Prerna park developed and maintained at Lucknow and similar projects”, said an executive of Sahara for Civic Development.

Out of the efforts made by the Sahara group in this context, it has attempted success in rehabilitation of earthquake affected village Bhimasar Chakasar in Gujarat and equipping it with Primary School, Community Centre, Post Office and Bank, Panchayat Ghar, Underground Sump, Pump House and Overhead Tank, Street Lights, all weather roads, Water Supply System and Sewerage System, Equipping parks at Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Muzaffarpur with basic amenities such as drinking water, lighting, fountains, pathway and taking up beautification and plantation efforts and a lot more. In various parts of Hindi belt, Sahara Group’s Charity for Civic Development had been found working. It is none other than Subrata Roy Sahara who deserves the credit for the eminent development in the cities.

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Subrata Roy Sahara initiates the Civic Development Project

Sahara group of Subrata Roy Sahara came forward to put efforts in the arena of development of basic civic amenities and infrastructure which the mainland of our country is yearning for. Subrata Roy Sahara has initiated the project that roams around the development of infrastructure and basic amenities. This project has been undertaken by Sahara as the Charity for Civic Development so that the increasing demand and pressure that involves around the city is settled.  This project by Subrata Roy basically includes activities like construction of public utilities and hand pumps and other basic infrastructure facilities.

The objective of this civic development by Sahara Group is to develop people friendly ambiance and environment in general and tourist places in particular, ensure availability of basic civic amenities in adoption homes, slums, densely populated areas as well as beautification of neglected parks, road crossings and traffic junctions in selected cities, construction. “ We want to be of complete assistance to people in all the areas and it is for this reason that we, in addition to our programmes for health, vocation, rehabilitation, literacy and may more, we shifted a part of our focus towards has been successful in constructing various forms of infrastructure including Sankalp Udyan (Town Hall) & Sankalp Sthal at Gorakhpur, Jindpeer crossing at Hardoi, Sankalp Vatika & Prerna park developed and maintained at Lucknow and similar projects”, said an executive of Sahara for Civic Development. 

Out of the efforts made by the Sahara group in this context, it has attempted success in rehabilitation of earthquake affected village Bhimasar Chakasar in Gujarat and equipping it with Primary School, Community Centre, Post Office and Bank, Panchayat Ghar, Underground Sump, Pump House and Overhead Tank, Street Lights, all weather roads, Water Supply System and Sewerage System, Equipping parks at Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Muzaffarpur with basic amenities such as drinking water, lighting, fountains, pathway and taking up beautification and plantation efforts and a lot more. In various parts of Hindi belt, Sahara Group’s Charity for Civic Development had been found working. It is none other than Subrata Roy Sahara who deserves the credit for the eminent development in the cities.

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Kilari village reestablished by Subrata roy sahara

When it comes to responsibility, one name that shoulders it unfailingly is Subrata Roy and Sahara Group. Subrata Roy’s name has been associated with an array of charity and the services that it has provided to the deprived.  Sahara has always been a step forward in terms of fulfilling its corporate social responsibility and the real feelings studded in its course of action is visible to the most. From Charitable Rehabilitation to vocational programmes, Sahara has dipped its fingers in almost all kinds of the social services that can be of any help to the society and to the ones on need.

Kilari is one of the many villages of Latur district in Maharashtra that took in the severe earthquake and went through complete destruction.  After the tragic incident, the managers of Sahara Group pursued the catastrophes and transformed the destroyed site into an avatar. Subrata Roy Sahara, “I run the world’s largest family and I know how painful it sis to lose the shelter under which you have been nourishing your family. We, as the Sahara for survivors, have decided to relocate everyone by rendering them with the roof on their heads.” The whole Kilari village had been adopted by Sahara Group for rehabilitation. Sahara transformed the broken bricks and heaps of dust and pebbles into earthquake resistant houses with the efforts put in at the fastest and at the maximum too. These houses were then handed over to the inhabitants of kilari village village by the world famous Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna parson Mother Teresa. 

Along with this Charitable Rehabilitation, the Sahara group also arranged for the essential requirements that one needs and passed them away to the kilari village residents. There are just a few names that do more than the mere requirement and Sahara Group is one of those names for sure.

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Sahara Group rehabilitates the entire Bhimasar village

The Corporate social responsibility is tied to all the brands but there are just a few like Subrata Roy of Sahara Group which take the social aptitude not just for the sake of responsibility but for the real sense and feelings wrapped up in the responsibility. Sahara India Pariwar is likely to be one of those few for its continuous and unbroken dedication towards the society and the needy.

When one of the villages of kutch district called Bhimasar-Chakasar which was spread across9457.31 acres and was located at a distance of 15 km from Gandhidham faced severe earthquake, it was Subrata Roy Sahara who lent the huge helping hand to the villagers. The village could accommodate 3153 people out of which 19 died and 135 were injured because of the natural disaster that touched the village. The earthquake had turned homes of 801 families into ashes which is a calamity which could not be compensated by financial assistance. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group stood by each and every villager to provide all the possible support that it could. “We, then and only, adapted the Rehabilitation Project and decided to adopt the entire village as well as the dwellers and took the initiative of relocating them. We couldn’t save the broken houses but we did carve a new hope for everyone who lost their shelter in the form of new homes and it is certainly not a Charity by Sahara”, said the spokesperson of Sahara India Pariwar

When the disaster took place, the team of the Sahara India Pariwar was reported at the event site within 48 hours for rendering the injured and the survivors with relief services. it might be counted as a Charity by Sahara but the rehabilitation project was actually the result of the deep concern generated inside the heart of the Sahara caretaker, Subrata Roy Sahara who showed the same in the form of Sahara Gram by which included reconstruction of 839 houses with essential community facilities. The gram has been established and the villagers are happily living there and the credit for the same goes to Sahara India Pariwar

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Vocational program for socio-economic backward community by Subrata Roy Sahara

Sahara Welfare Foundation, in access by the Sahara Founder Subrata Roy is of the firm belief that education and skill development should be evident so that it is observed in the form of contribution in the improvement of functional understanding of the socio-economic backward community and hen eth group with its instructions from the lead Subrata Roy is always keen to do something productive that leads to the betterment of the society and the people of the society too.

The objective behind launching the vocational program was to help in confidence building of the people as well as enhancing their inherent skills. The Vocational Training Program was initiated in the view that the people would be educated, and their skills would be brushed up to bring productive changes in their lives which would be more in the form of a job and the source of earning the living from.

A source from Sahara group mentioned, “We focus on enhancing skills in a manner which Contributes to the diversity of income portfolio of the targeted families, helps in rehabilitation process of the challenged and women thereby providing them enough confidence so that they gradually start getting integrated in the mainstream of the society and on the same hand enhances confidence of the members of the target group in general and women in particular. This all alleviates their status and enhances their say in the family and in this way linkages with financial institutions, other production houses also get developed. Also, the suppressed strata of adult females, adolescent girls and challenged would be nurtured in the best possible way.

The vocations included in this initiative by Sahara group includes Computers, Hindi and English typing, Stitching, Embroidery especially Chikan embroidery, Mehndi and Rangoli, Making bags of handmade and used paper, Darning, Repairing, alteration and alternative uses of old clothes and Quilting. The program has benefited 1725 females in Computers, 1221 in Hindi & English Typing, 1133 in stitching, 1243 in Embroidery, 1050 in mehndi and thousand more in other such vocations. The vocation has not just trained the females but has also built up their confidence, communication level and the understanding grounds which are equally necessary for them to grow completely.

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Another initiative by Subrata Roy: Sahara Group commences Literacy Program for slum children

The objective of this program by Subrata Roy’s Sahara Group is to help children and adults residing in slums of cities develop their overall personality and a functional understanding of aspects that affect their day-to-day lives. People of different age groups have benefited from this program since its inception.
Subrata Roy and Sahara group has always earned high pints in tits corporate social responsibility and the foremost reason behind its continuous success to achieve the CSR goals is that Sahara or Subrata Roy doesn’t initiate social activities to earn point but as a responsibility towards society. And hence Sahara group shoulders far more responsibilities than what it is supposed to do. Subrata Roy, head of Sahara group, has shown its deep concern for the children of India who can’t afford to get education, as a matter of fact, they can’t even afford to acquire literacy. It is for them that the Literacy Program by sahara group named as “Sakshar Bharat” has been commenced so that the slum children get education, who would not even get to step into the schools otherwise.

The program has several strategies which include raising awareness and targeting the slums of india and educating them with the assistance of a mix of oral, visual and practical methods. These methods of the Literacy Program by Sahara group and ideology of Subrata Roy have triggered many activities and have also accomplished achievements. The program organizes assessments, health check-ups for the slum children and arranges frequent psychological evaluation of students.

If we talk about the achievements that the Literacy Program has made, it has established its 20 centres in Lucknow and 12 in Gorakhpur. Every year, the program educates around 500 students of which, around 150-200 are being educated in the mainstream formal education system. Also, 71 per cent of students that were registered this year in Gorakhpur were from the category of the girls aged up to 14 years. This literacy initiative by Subrata Roy has given a meaning to the lives of slum children by introducing them to the education, in fact, a good education system for free which wouldn’t have been possible for them if it was the other way around.

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Financial Assistance to Martyrs’ families by Sahara Group of Subrata Roy

One of the major business corporations of India Sahara group of Subrata Roy Sahara has been providing tribute and homage to the martyrs of kargil war in the form of financial assistance to the families of the kargil martyrs who sacrificed their last breath for the security of the country and the welfare of the country people. This initiative taken by Subrata Roy Sahara has been lending the financial arm to 298 families of martyrs of kargil and two other catastrophes of India that left the nation in awe- 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack and Dantewada Massacre since the haphazard took place.
Apart from several charitable of Subrata Roy this time Sahara group has been rendering the martyrs’ families with not just financial but emotional support too for over a decade and is continuing to put in efforts to show respects towards the martyrs who showed incredible heroism and unending spirit and to show affection towers their families who stood selflessly by the nation and placed their loved ones on stake and this is what the vision of Subrata Roy was. On 30th January, shaheed Diwas of the Father of Nation - Mahatma Gandhi, arranged a ceremony to provide financial assistance to the 127 families of martyrs of kargil war, Mumbai terror attack and dhantewada catastrophe. The occasion was witnessed by the families of Kargil, Mumbai and Dantewada martyrs who gathered from all across the nation to join Sahara India Pariwar for paying mark of respect to the immoral martyrs who just to uphold motherland’s esteem and secure the nation let their lives go away.
Subrata Roy, the head of Sahra pariwar, magnified the support to the families by providing additional financial assistance to the below 18 years of age, 301 children of 152 martyrs of kargil. Subrata Roy has been staying among the front runners in social services for more than 10 years now. This financial support costs to around 20 crores to sahara group. Subrata Roy Sahara, on the occasion, said, “We are indebted to the brave sons of our beloved motherland who have laid their life for the nation and its people. The sacrifices of the families of the martyrs who have faced the trauma, pain and difficulty which ascended on them, are also no less,. It is our responsibility to take full care and give highest respect to the families whose bright sons placed their love for the nation and its billions of people, above their own affections, hopes, aspirations and even life.” He also mentioned that it is the families who honored them by accepting the fund and not the group.

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Subrata Roy’s steps forward towards a healthy nation via Sahara’s Health Program

Sahara India Pariwar of Subrata Roy Sahara, among it array of social services, has provided a distinct place for the health of the people of the nation. Sahara group and its Chairman Subrata Roy believes that it is a health of a society that would enhance the development of India and to from a healthy society, the people shall be healthy. A health and nutrition program has hence been commenced by Sahara group of Subrata Roy, which is objected to simplify the access to health care and primary health care services, Promote and facilitate preventive health care initiatives at community levels, and grant the availability of trained human resources at the same level.
According to Subrata Roy Sahara, the health program emphasizes on bestowing the medical health care services to children, adolescent girls, women and senior citizens, raising awareness among people so that they gradually realize the importance of health and sanitation and start taking initiatives at the local level. Apart from that, the major emphasis will also be on developing and strengthening organic linkages with other organizations and ensuring active participation in national level campaigns and programs initiated by government and providing medical services during incidents of emergency, epidemics and natural disasters and calamities.
Among various charitable activities started by Subrata Roy Sahara, This health and charity program has been spreading awareness across the country and has been involved in bountiful health promoting activities. Sahara group, through this health program, has provided necessary health services to the people of urban slums on a customary basis via their health units, four of which are permanently located in Lucknow and Gorakhpur and four of which are mobile in the same areas. This covers a population of population of around 0.14 million in 97 slums of Lucknow and Gorakhpur 0.14 million in 97 slums. Subrata Roy, the head of Sahara group, doesn’t refer to the health program as a charity but contribution toward its fellow citizens. The well-designed teams of experienced, dedicated and committed medical experts, community level workers, paramedical persons and pharmacists are making the health program run successfully.
The project by Subrata Roy Sahara has extended healthy wings to covering 60 villages of Gorakhpur district - inhabited by about 200,000 persons by rendering them with primary medical services. Health education, workshops on health issues, Cataract operation camp and medical check – ups are some more activities that the program is occupied with.

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Sahara Group of Subrata Roy commences Rehabilitation Project for earthquakes-ridden

Sahara Group of companies by Subrata Roy, under its corporate social responsibilities, has started a mega rehabilitaion project where it has taken the entire responsibility of re-locating the entire village in kutch district of Gujarat -namely Bhimasar Chakasar. This rehabilitation scheme was the sole initiative of Subrata Roy Sahara, Chief Guardian of Sahara group, popularly known by the name ‘Saharasri’-because of his intense concern for the families that faced unpredicted misshapen to themselves, loss of lives of their loved ones and devastation of their shelter.
This rehabilitation project by Subrata Roy is intended to relocate all the families that manage to save their lives if not their houses. The village, Bhimasar-Chakasar, taluka Anjar, district Kutch was located at a distance of about 15 km from Gandhidham and covers an area of over 9457.31 acres. It was home to 3153 persons of which 135 got severe injuries and19 died because of the earthquake. As a consequence to the intense earthquake, houses of 801 families were completely shattered according to Subrata Roy of Sahara Group. It was then the members of the Sahara group that lent the huge hand of help to the villagers within 48 hours of the occurrence of the tragic incident. Sahara India Pariwar adopted the entire village and for relocation them under the mega rehabilitaion project. Members of the Sahara Group provided the survivors with relief services and constructed reconstructing 839 houses. Since then the mission of relocating the people who bore the destructing earthquake and rendering them with the basic facilities has been accomplished. The gram is now commonly known as the Sahara Gram as it was the Sahara group which made the first move to commence an entire project which was oriented to provide shelter and other general amenities to the families affected by earthquake. Apart from that, Subrata Roy has also commenced some other rehabilitation programs which includes Rehabilitation for survivors of Latur.

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