Kailash Manav

Dr. Kailash Manav is an Indian activist born on 2 January 1947 in Bhinder village in Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Dr. Agrawal's father was a shopkeeper and mother was a religious housewife. Right from childhood he had a polite, emotional and sympathetic attitude towards living beings. He always liked the company of persons like saints and social preachers with whom he could discuss and get knowledge about the real truth of life and humanity. This kind hearted perception raised many questions against various social evils prevalent in rural areas in those days like untouchability, dowry etc. which disappointed him utmost and inclined him towards helping others as much as he could.
He has taken primary education in Bhinder and then shifted to Bhilwara, Rajasthan to acquire further higher studies. After completion of education he got married and started a bookshop. His hard work resulted in fast growth of business and identity in his business line.
As sometimes time demands something else and destiny has something different for the person, Dr. 'Manav' too had something else in his fate. He felt major setback when he was deceived by his business partner and was thrown out of the business completely. But without losing patience he started again from beginning and joined Post and Telecom deptt. where he worked and was placed at various towns of Rajasthan during his service tenure.
Below mentioned was an incidence that suffled the soul and mind of Dr. Manav and was a turning point in his life "An accident of bus and truck had taken place near Sirohi in which few people died and several injured. He immediately visited the place with his friends and arranged to bring the injured persons to hospital. He used to visit the hospital regularly to see and provide caring hands to the admitted persons. One day he could not go to the hospital due to some official work. Late night a man knocked on his door, he was an attendant of a girl injured in bus accident. He informed Dr. 'Manav' that she refused to take dinner till she meet her Babuji (Dr. Kailash 'Manav'). These emotional incidences motivated Mr. Manav to spent some time and visit the hospital on regular basis. He used to distribute fruits, books and toys to Patients admitted in hospital.
This routine of Mr. 'Manav' turned into his habit of visiting hospital and helping the admitted persons in all possible ways that he could. Same habit continued even when he got transferred to Udaipur. Once during the visit to general hospital of Udaipur he saw that a tribal patient Kisna ji was distributed four chapaties by the hospital. He ate two of them and kept two with him. Dr. 'Manav' asked him whether he was not hungry? Tears came out of his eyes and he replied to him that his younger brother and son were also hungry and they didn't have money to buy food so he has saved these chapatti’s for them.
These incidences shook Dr. 'Manav' and he decided to do something for the poor attendants of patients admitted in civil hospital.
Dr. 'Manav' kept empty boxes in his neighbor's and relative's houses and requested them to put a fist full of flour in the box daily. His daughter used to collect the flour from the boxes on bicycle. Then she along with her mother used to cook the food and Dr. 'Manav' used to distribute that food to the attendants of poor patients in the hospital -Sewa to the Humanity. This was the beginning of' NARAYAN SEWA SANSTHAN'
Once at a time of famine he observed that poor tribal’s nearby Udaipur city who were affected very badly had nothing to eat. Dr. Kailash 'Manav' visited the villages along with some of his volunteers, relatives & friends and distributed food grains, milk, cloth etc. to them. Since then Sansthan had been organizing camps to distribute medicine, cloths, food grains to poor disabled villagers regularly.
During such activities Dr. Manav observed that in those Villages there were many children that were deprived of their parents. In order to educate them and make them self dependent he established Bhagwan Mahavir Orphan Children Hostel on 15 December 1990 with a capacity of 100 children, including all facilities for boarding, lodging, cloths and education.
Once a very heart throbbing situation came in front of Dr.' Manav' when he saw a person crawling on his four limbs come into the food grain distribution camp to get the aid. He could not resist helping the person and has took him to Bombay for medical aid. Thereafter a successful corrective operation allowed the person to stand on his feet. Encouraged by this result Dr. 'Manav' has taken more disable persons to Bombay for medical treatment and brought them in self stranding position. But this process was too expensive.
So, Dr. 'Manav' with the help of Late Shri Chain Raj ji Lodha established a 151 bed surgical hospital in Udaipur in February 1997 to perform free of cost operations.
Besides this, since 1999 and till April 2009 Sansthan has organized 72 surgical camps out of Udaipur.
Steps towards making disabled self dependent:-
• In 1999 community based rehabilitation centers were started to provide training of sewing, carpentry, Bamboo work, motor Rewinding etc.
• In continuation to above in the year 2001 a vocational training center was started providing courses for computer services, TV, VCR repairing.
From 2003 Sansthan's program were being Telecasted on various channels that helped in awareness of Sansthan's activity for free polio operations. After this, flow of patients approached Sansthan that emerged a need of more hospitals. In 2005 two more hospital were established. (l.) JaiswalSewa Hospital 145 beds and (2.) Didwania (Ratanlal) disabled hospital 121 beds
Again it came into highlight that many born disabled persons also approached for treatment. Therefore 1997 Didwania International Born disabled Hospital was established having facility of 250 beds.
As the awareness of the activities of free operation by Sansthan spread the number of disabled reporting to Sansthan hospitals increased by many folds and existing hospital capacity was not sufficient to accommodate. Till now the Sansthan has done more than 95,000 polio operations.

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