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* Name: ''''''BHUPINDER SINGH KOHLI'''''' - Bhai Ghanaiya Sewa International | * Name: ''''''BHUPINDER SINGH KOHLI'''''' - Bhai Ghanaiya Sewa International | ||
* Address: B-21/3, SBI QUARTERS, SECTOR-13, NERUL, NAVI MUMBAI-400 706 | * Address: B-21/3, SBI QUARTERS, SECTOR-13, NERUL, NAVI MUMBAI-400 706 (INDIA) | ||
* Cell: (+91) 9821421058 | * Cell: (+91) 9821421058 | ||
* email : [email protected] | * email : [email protected] | ||
Revision as of 00:03, 19 August 2007
Bhupinder Singh Kohli is a Guru-panth-da-Sewadar extraordinaire. He is based in Mumbai, India and has been recoginised as such several times by the local newspapers. He has a full time job like most of us. His is working as a banker for the State Bank of India. He is a senior employee in the Estate Department of their Corporate Centre, New Administrative Building, CBD Belapur, in Mumbai. If were to meet him at work, he appears just like an ordinary executive worker at the bank. However, there is something more than meets the eye at first glance. This unassuming personality is a committed social worker.
Many local needy and desperate people bank on him with hopes, aspirations and regular requests for help. And he never disappoints them. There is never a "NO" in his dictionary when it comes to Sewa - Selfless service. He is always there for people in wilderness. His mobile rings most often with request for emergency help and he is always ready to arrange this with lightning speed. And he ensures that his private car is always available for free ferrying of "his patients" for emergency hospital service. And this is just one facet of his personality.
His Community Projests
- He proudly displays the following sign: " FREE HOSPITAL SERVICE WITHIN NAVI MUMBAI DURING NIGHT " and his Mobile No. 9821421058 for contact, on his private"SANTRO" Car bearing registration No. MH-01-Y-9528, which he uses during emergencies for shifting the patient from or to the hospitals and that too FREE OF COST.
In addition to this free ambulance service, he has a range of other community based social activities.
- Collecting Unused and Unexpired medicines, free samples etc (boxes kept in different junctions and branches) which are used in charitable dispensaries and medical camps in remote areas like Birwadi (Shahpur), Old Age Home at Taloja, Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre at Nere (Panvel).
- Collecting old (usable) clothes, utensils, reading materials, toys for needy in villages. v Collecting and making available and timely basis equipments like walking sticks, walkers, clutches, backrest, bedpans, urine pots, saline stand, oxygen cylinder, nebulisers, suction machine etc.
- Maintaining a computerised Blood Group Directory and helps is providing the data of donors to the needy in emergency.
- Member of Civil Defence, Red Cross Society, Traffic Warden, Volunteer of V-care (working for cancer patients) and many other organization involved in social work.
Enthused by his untiring enthusiasm for social work and organising abilities, today people of all ages rush to join him in his social activities. And he doesn't disappoint them too. He welcomes any kind of support offered to him and guides such support to further serve social causes. And thus the circle widens. As they say "Jyot Se Jyot Jalathe Chalo", the light of kindness is spreading... Carry on Mr. Kohli. you are making all of us proud.
Newspaper articles
The following article appeared in the Times of India edition on 5th August,2004. It is a grand testimony to Bhupinder Singh's great work of the community. The text of the article is produced below:
KARSEWA (The Times of India, Navi Mumbai Plus, 5th Aug,2004)
"Working for the poor, the downtrodden the needy and the helpless is more than just a hobby for Bhupinder Singh Kohli from Nerul. It is a daily ritual. Apart from his busy schedule as an employee of the State Bank of India at CBD Belapur and in between taking care of his parents, particularly his 92-year-old bed-ridden father, Kohli is immersed in social work and constantly attempts to find solutions to the problems of the helpless in his own unique ways.
Kohli's latest idea has been to convert his own Santro Car to a vehicle for people in distress. Explains Kohli, "Four months back, I happened to see an accident near Uran Phata at around 7 pm. The victim was fatally wounded but he could reach the hospital only after precious time had lapsed, for want of timely ambulance services. This incident made me think of alternative sources to help people in distress.
And that very night, I realised that I had one of these sources with me. I could help with my new car which I'd been using sparingly. I decided to use the car in emergencies for shifting patients from or to hospitals, free of cost. " The very next day, Kohli sprung into action and inscribed 'FREE HOSPITAL SERVICE WITHIN NAVI MUMBAI DURING THE NIGHT' on his car.
During the next three months, he helped seven patients to reach the hospital during medical emergencies. As appreciation for his dedication, the Vashi Gurudwara presented Kohli with a second hand ambulance. Says Kohli, "The ambulance has been given to the Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle's Bhai Kanhaiya Seva International, Maharashtra Unit, which provides medical and para medical services. Though my car would serve the purpose of dropping patient to the hospital, proper medical equipment is not available inside the car. Now, with the ambulance service available, I'm sure more lives will be saved. This ambulance service too comes at no cost".
This devout Sikh has done seven first aid courses in various hospitals across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Says Kohli, "When I was studying, I happened to see many rich patients dumping expensive medicines, which were not past their expiry date, after they recovered from their illness. These medicines would have otherwise served poor patients."
From then on, Kohli started collecting unused and un-expired medicines as well as free samples given by doctors. The medicines collected thus were sent to charitable dispensaries. Kohli also collects used equipments like walking sticks, saline stands and oxygen cylinders, among others, sterilises them, and gives them to poor patients. He also collects old and usable clothes, utensils, reading materials and toys for needy people in villages.
The jewel in the crown of Kohli's social work is his mammoth compilation of a computerised Blood Group Directory that has a list of around 4,800 donors' names and addresses, collected individually. This social worker, who is responsible for organising many medical camps, is also a member of Civil Defence, Red Cross Society and Traffic Wardens.
He is also a volunteer of V-care working for cancer patients. Says Kohli's friend Hardeep Singh, "For the last 20 years, he has been meeting all the expenditure of his social activities from his own income. The Santro manufacturers should be proud of Kohli for using their product for a noble service."
Contact Details
If you wish to help Bhaupinder Singh with this marvellous work that he is doing, please contact him at:
- Name: 'BHUPINDER SINGH KOHLI' - Bhai Ghanaiya Sewa International
- Address: B-21/3, SBI QUARTERS, SECTOR-13, NERUL, NAVI MUMBAI-400 706 (INDIA)
- Cell: (+91) 9821421058
- email : [email protected]
