Sanjay Dalmia, Chairman of the Dalmia Group of Companies and former Member of Parliament along with Jai Madaan, a noted social activist and public figure, have formed the ‘Bharat Maa Shaheed Samman Trust’, to facilitate the freedom fighters who played pioneering role in India’s freedom struggle.
The trust that is also extending financial support to the dependents of the martyrs for education and livelihood, will soon be filing a petition in the British High Court for compensation against the atrocities and crimes committed by the British during the forceful occupation of the country.
Informing t his, a spokesperson of the Trust here today said that Bharat Maa Shaheed Samman Trust has been organizing “Bharat Maa Gaurav Sandhya” a musical programme of patriotic songs, in various parts of India, as an accolade to the memory of freedom fighters and to instill a sense of pride and gratification among the young guns of the society.
He said that Dalmiya through his Dalmia Sewa Trust is also engaged in various philanthropic activities such as providing sanitary and safe drinking water to the people of Chirawa (Rajasthan); organizing free health camps for patients suffering from Asthma, Eye ailments etc for the underprivileged and poverty stricken people in Rajasthan.
Besides, the trust is also advocating the idea of Swachh Bharat by doing its own bit in Chirawa. The trust has been constructing lavatories in about 100 odd houses who could not build/afford toilets in their houses owing to monetary constraints.
All these operations are being conducted and managed by Dalmia Sewa Trust from its own resources with no aid from the district administration or from any outside agencies, he added.