Located in Udaipur in Rajasthan, Narayan Seva Sansthan (NSS) is a smart village with all facilities available for physically challenged
It has a 1100 bedded hospital, which cures the differently able individuals and provides them social & economical rehabilitation.
From corrective surgeries to post surgery treatment, during recovery support and recreational activities, all are free of cost for patient.
Can you believe that an organisation which started with an ounce of flour over three decades back is now a renowned centre executing more than 100 corrective surgeries of Polio and Cerebral Palsy patients every day and makes thousands of physically challenged stand on their own?
This might sound surprising but is a fact and if you wanna check it on your own, then you should visit the Narayan Seva Sansthan situated in Udaipur which was founded by Kailash Agarwal in 1985. The centre now stands with pride handholding the physically affected individuals to ensure they make a healthy living, while fighting all odds.
Founded by Padmashri Shri Kailash Agarwal ‘Manav’ with a motto to serve the humanity in the year 1985, Narayan Seva Sansthan today is scripting many inspiring stories by training physically challenged people to stand on their own.
In fact, the story of Agarwal’s inspiration to start this centre goes back to the year 1976 when he was informed of an accident in Pindwara, Sirohi District of Rajasthan which left 43 people dead.
He immediately took a leave from his job, rushed to the accident spot and was deeply moved feeing and feeling the pain and plight of the 43 casualties in a road accident there.
With the help of others, Shri Kailash ‘Manav’ admitted the injured to the general hospital and started visiting hospital daily to look after the patients to provide them with the best possible help.
One day, on his routine visit to the hospital, he met a patient named ‘Kisna Bheel’ who he saw keeping some portion of food from the plate served to him for his brother and son. On asking, Kisna Bheel replied that ‘I am still hungry, but my brother and son are also accompanying me. We have no money left with us and I have to save the chapattis for them!’
Right at this moment, Shri Kailash ‘Manav’ thought there must be many such people who would be sleeping hungry for their families.
To help those people, he distributed some containers with ‘Narayan Seva’ written on it to his relatives and acquaintances and asked them to put some flour in it on daily basis. He along with his wife prepared chapattis out of the flour which they collected and fed the hungry.
Prashant Agarwal who was a young dynamic boy then, helped parents with basic help to sustain their humanitarian efforts and thus acquired the hobby of Social Service. From there, the journey of Narayan Seva Sansthan started in the year 1985 which is now helping thousands of youths stand on their hand fighting the odds of being physically challenged.
Few years later, a severe famine broke in Udaipur. To help the affected population, Agarwal organised camps in the rural and tribal regions and distributed free clothes, food grains and medicines which he collected from the generous people of Udaipur.
Continuing his humanitarian deeds, he laid the foundation of an orphanage “Bhagwan Mahavir Nirashrit Balgrah” on December 15, 1990 to provide the homeless children belonging to the tribal and rural parts of Udaipur with quality education so that they can be part of the mainstream society.
One day when he was distributing free food to the poor and needy in his camps, he saw a person crawling on his four legs who came to him for his help. He took him to Mumbai for treatment and then he decided that he will help the ‘differently able’ persons. Thereafter, more polio patients were taken by him to Mumbai for treatment but it was very costly affair and time consuming process to take each and every patient to Mumbai. So, he decided to establish a hospital in Udaipur.
On February 20, 1997, the foundation of a 151 bedded Chainraj Lodha Hospital was laid in Udaipur, with the financial support from Chainraj Lodha to conduct free operations of people suffering from polio or birth disabilities. This is how Shri Kaliash Ji ‘Manav’ came into the field of serving the ‘differently able’ persons and today ‘Narayan Seva Sansthan’ is India’s top most NGO serving in the field of treating and providing rehabilitation the ‘differently able’ patients across the Globe.
It has been organising mass marriage ceremonies of physically challenged people and is also taking them on stage to showcase their talents of dance and perform cat walk too following an utmost principle of ‘Service of oppressed humanity is service of the almighty.’