🌟 Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Subhash Gupta, Champion for the Visually Challenged 🌟
Kalamandir Foundation is honored to present the Seva Ratna Award 2025 to Sri Subhash Gupta, a visually challenged changemaker from Hyderabad, Telangana, whose unwavering dedication has illuminated the lives of hundreds across the state.
As the Founder and Secretary of Vikalangula Kalyana Vedika (VKV), established in 2000, Sri Subhash Gupta has transformed adversity into purpose by creating a nurturing ecosystem for the visually impaired, orphans, and the underprivileged.
🏠 Key contributions through VKV and its wings include:
Residential care, education, and job training for 60+ visually challenged boys and girls
Facilitated 42 marriages and secured 82 job placements in banks, schools, and government offices
Runs a training-cum-production center producing candles, soaps, paper plates, agarbattis — empowering residents through skill and entrepreneurship
Operates V4U (We for You) — an orphanage for 60 children, and provides books, uniforms, and stationery to underprivileged students
Established a computer lab with JAWS and training in musical instruments, ensuring digital and cultural literacy
Organizes annual blind cricket tournaments, and sports competitions like chess, kabaddi, and kho-kho since 2012
Provided disaster relief aid during the Hudhud cyclone and Kurnool floods
Runs a goshaala for abandoned cows and distributes blankets to the homeless every New Year
Sri Subhash Gupta also serves as Vice President of Saksham Foundation, advocating tirelessly for the rights and inclusion of the physically challenged across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
🌟 As a token of deep respect and appreciation, Kalamandir Foundation has donated ₹50,000 to support his ongoing efforts in empowerment and service.
Sri Subhash Gupta is a true embodiment of courage, compassion, and commitment — proving that vision is not just seen with the eyes, but lived through action.
🌾 Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, Rural Development Changemaker from Gujarat 🌾
Kalamandir Foundation is proud to honor Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, a 37-year-old visionary from Gujarat, with the Seva Ratna Award 2025, in recognition of his tireless dedication to rural upliftment and grassroots transformation.
An economics graduate from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, Nilam chose a path of selfless service over comfort. In 2007, through the university’s Gramshilpi (rural artisan) program, he voluntarily adopted Khoba village in Valsad district as his “karma bhoomi” — leaving behind a financially secure life to live alone among the people he serves. His family has not visited since, honoring his deep commitment to rural immersion.
🚜 His multi-dimensional impact includes:
Infrastructure development: Led the construction of paved roads connecting and within Khoba
Healthcare outreach: Conducted door-to-door TB awareness, personally distributed DOTS treatment—even after contracting TB himself
Child welfare: Established a hostel in Lokmangalam for ~30 orphaned children, funding their care from his own resources
Environmental activism: Fearlessly fought against illegal logging, enduring physical threats and injuries for the cause
COVID-19 response: Set up isolation centers, distributed oxygen cylinders & medicines, and championed vaccination drives
Ongoing efforts in: education, alcoholism eradication, hygiene awareness, agriculture, gramodyog (rural crafts), and tribal self-reliance
🌟 In admiration of his unwavering service and quiet revolution, Kalamandir Foundation has extended a donation of ₹50,000 to support his ongoing rural development efforts.
Sri Nilam Patel is a shining example of Gandhian values in action — a true servant-leader redefining change at the grassroots.
🏹 Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Kathle Maruthi, The Tribal Torchbearer of Telangana 🏹
Kalamandir Foundation is proud to present the Seva Ratna Award 2025 to Sri Kathle Maruthi from Chinchughat, Adilabad district, Telangana — a tribal farmer, archery coach, songwriter, and a true changemaker whose life is a beacon of grassroots empowerment.
Belonging to the Thoti tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), Maruthi rose from modest beginnings to become a pillar of strength for his community. Despite early struggles and being declared unfit for archery due to a medical setback in school, he turned adversity into inspiration — self-learning the sport through YouTube and local guidance, with one goal: to empower tribal children, especially girls, through archery.
🌱 Over the past 16 years, Maruthi has:
Trained 16+ tribal girls at a makeshift academy he runs free of cost, daily from 5–7 a.m.
Enabled his students to win 25+ medals, including 3 gold, 6 silver, and 2 bronze at district, state, and national competitions
Inspired government bodies like ITDA, Utnoor, to take cues from his model for a full-fledged tribal archery academy
Penned 400+ awareness songs on tribal rights, education, and social issues
Served tirelessly as a pro bono social worker, addressing critical community challenges
Though highly qualified—with a Master’s in Sociology and a Physical Education certification—Maruthi chose service over salary, and community upliftment over comfort. His first two students, Tekam Lakshmi and Srija, are now national champions who continue to inspire hundreds more.
🌟 As a token of deep appreciation, Kalamandir Foundation has also extended a donation of ₹50,000 to support his ongoing efforts in transforming young tribal lives through archery.
We salute this unsung hero, whose quiet revolution is shaping future champions and restoring dignity and dreams in the heart of rural India.
🌾 Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, Rural Development Changemaker from Gujarat 🌾
Kalamandir Foundation is proud to honor Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, a 37-year-old visionary from Gujarat, with the Seva Ratna Award 2025, in recognition of his tireless dedication to rural upliftment and grassroots transformation.
An economics graduate from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, Nilam chose a path of selfless service over comfort. In 2007, through the university’s Gramshilpi (rural artisan) program, he voluntarily adopted Khoba village in Valsad district as his “karma bhoomi” — leaving behind a financially secure life to live alone among the people he serves. His family has not visited since, honoring his deep commitment to rural immersion.
🚜 His multi-dimensional impact includes:
Infrastructure development: Led the construction of paved roads connecting and within Khoba
Healthcare outreach: Conducted door-to-door TB awareness, personally distributed DOTS treatment—even after contracting TB himself
Child welfare: Established a hostel in Lokmangalam for ~30 orphaned children, funding their care from his own resources
Environmental activism: Fearlessly fought against illegal logging, enduring physical threats and injuries for the cause
COVID-19 response: Set up isolation centers, distributed oxygen cylinders & medicines, and championed vaccination drives
Ongoing efforts in: education, alcoholism eradication, hygiene awareness, agriculture, gramodyog (rural crafts), and tribal self-reliance
🌟 In admiration of his unwavering service and quiet revolution, Kalamandir Foundation has extended a donation of ₹50,000 to support his ongoing rural development efforts.
Sri Nilam Patel is a shining example of Gandhian values in action — a true servant-leader redefining change at the grassroots.
Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Subhash Gupta, Champion for the Visually Challenged 🌟
Kalamandir Foundation is honored to present the Seva Ratna Award 2025 to Sri Subhash Gupta, a visually challenged changemaker from Hyderabad, Telangana, whose unwavering dedication has illuminated the lives of hundreds across the state.
As the Founder and Secretary of Vikalangula Kalyana Vedika (VKV), established in 2000, Sri Subhash Gupta has transformed adversity into purpose by creating a nurturing ecosystem for the visually impaired, orphans, and the underprivileged.
🏠 Key contributions through VKV and its wings include:
Residential care, education, and job training for 60+ visually challenged boys and girls
Facilitated 42 marriages and secured 82 job placements in banks, schools, and government offices
Runs a training-cum-production center producing candles, soaps, paper plates, agarbattis — empowering residents through skill and entrepreneurship
Operates V4U (We for You) — an orphanage for 60 children, and provides books, uniforms, and stationery to underprivileged students
Established a computer lab with JAWS and training in musical instruments, ensuring digital and cultural literacy
Organizes annual blind cricket tournaments, and sports competitions like chess, kabaddi, and kho-kho since 2012
Provided disaster relief aid during the Hudhud cyclone and Kurnool floods
Runs a goshaala for abandoned cows and distributes blankets to the homeless every New Year
Sri Subhash Gupta also serves as Vice President of Saksham Foundation, advocating tirelessly for the rights and inclusion of the physically challenged across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
🌟 As a token of deep respect and appreciation, Kalamandir Foundation has donated ₹50,000 to support his ongoing efforts in empowerment and service.
Sri Subhash Gupta is a true embodiment of courage, compassion, and commitment — proving that vision is not just seen with the eyes, but lived through action.
🌾 Seva Ratna Award 2025 – Honoring Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, Rural Development Changemaker from Gujarat 🌾
Kalamandir Foundation is proud to honor Sri Nilam Dhirubhai Patel, a 37-year-old visionary from Gujarat, with the Seva Ratna Award 2025, in recognition of his tireless dedication to rural upliftment and grassroots transformation.
An economics graduate from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, Nilam chose a path of selfless service over comfort. In 2007, through the university’s Gramshilpi (rural artisan) program, he voluntarily adopted Khoba village in Valsad district as his “karma bhoomi” — leaving behind a financially secure life to live alone among the people he serves. His family has not visited since, honoring his deep commitment to rural immersion.
🚜 His multi-dimensional impact includes:
Infrastructure development: Led the construction of paved roads connecting and within Khoba
Healthcare outreach: Conducted door-to-door TB awareness, personally distributed DOTS treatment—even after contracting TB himself
Child welfare: Established a hostel in Lokmangalam for ~30 orphaned children, funding their care from his own resources
Environmental activism: Fearlessly fought against illegal logging, enduring physical threats and injuries for the cause
COVID-19 response: Set up isolation centers, distributed oxygen cylinders & medicines, and championed vaccination drives
Ongoing efforts in: education, alcoholism eradication, hygiene awareness, agriculture, gramodyog (rural crafts), and tribal self-reliance
🌟 In admiration of his unwavering service and quiet revolution, Kalamandir Foundation has extended a donation of ₹50,000 to support his ongoing rural development efforts.
Sri Nilam Patel is a shining example of Gandhian values in action — a true servant-leader redefining change at the grassroots.