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Eklavya
Adivasi Bhatkya Vimukta Jati Jamati Va Maga Vargiya sevabhavi Sanstha Manchi
Hill, was established in the year 1995 the trust campus is located
in the lush green surroundings of Manchi Hill, Tal. Sangamner, Dist. Ahmednagar
with an excellent ambience and
environment for the young igniting minds to give their best of thoughts.
The aim and objective of the trust is
providing quality education and training to the weaker section of the society,
empowering the youth with courage and confidence to shoulder the challenges
emerging from global competition, and to excel in their respective areas of
work life balance.
All
the campuses of the trust are fully developed and well established having a
Medical college, a D Ed college, a school from K.G. to 12th standard and a auryvedic hospital
with all the amenities for students for their pursuit, extracurricular
activities, sports and hobbies. The campus has an extraordinarily exemplary
group of people – the management, faculty, students and non-teaching staff who
combine together to create a unique learning environment – a congenial climate
to provide a well rounded education. These institutes maintain a commendable percentage of results
continuously in the University examination
This trust is run under the dynamic leadership of their chairman Shri Shaligram Thakaji Hodgar.
It is his sheer hard work with the help of his dedicated staff that he runs a
well organized campus of various educational and health care institutes. In his
zeal to help more and more mankind he observed that there was a need for starting
a rehabilitation centre for alcohol and drug abuse. Mr. Hodgar personally came
down to Mumbai along with Fr. Mathew and invited Rev. Fr. Joe H Pereira Founder
Managing Director to visit Manchi Hill campus,Sangamner.
On 25th April 2013, Fr. Joe
drove down 252 kms to meet Mr. Hodgar. A man of punctuality, the host were surprised
to see Fr. Joe reach Sagamneer much prior to the time of appointment. Fr. Joe was
given a tour of the school, medical college, hospital, dairy farm, and the
proposed site to start the rehab centre. Later Mr. Hodgar felicitated Fr. Joe
and with great respect personally tied the traditional Maharashtrian turban for
Fr. Joe and presented him with a shawl.
In
the hot simmering summer heat of 40 degrees celsius students, staff both
teaching and non teaching accompanied by their principals and even patients
from the hospital assembled in the open air auditorium sitting under the shades
of the trees listen with apt attention as Fr. Joe addressed the gathering. In his speech Fr. Joe
shared how it was a need to make people aware about the ill effects of addiction
and how especially the youth and teenage of vulnerable Indian villages should
not fall victims to addiction in this rapid modernization of our country.” It
is Gods providence that has bought me here” said Fr. Joe. The audience stared
with amaze as they listened to Fr. Joe speak in pure Marathi and wonder struck
as he sang in Sanskrit the interfaith prayer “ om tat sat ¤rí náráya`a tu…” by Vinoba Bhave. And the invocation to Patanjali as a yogic “yogena cittasya padena vacam….”
Mr. Hodgar in his address thanked Fr. Joe for his visit
to his campus and said that although a businessman he was fully convinced after
hearing Fr. Joe speak from his heart to his students, staff and patients that
indee Fr. Joe was indeed a man of God,
come into Manchi Hills to eradicate the ills of addiction.
Fr. Joe also had a special briefing for the principal,
doctors and teaching staff of the various institutes which later ended in a
question and answer session.
After the function all who attended were served a sumptuous
lunch. On his departure to Mumbai, Fr. Joe assured Mr. Hodgar that this would
not be his last visit but a beginning to a new phase of Kripa collaborating
with Mr. Hodgar in Manchi Hill.
The whole visit was arranged by Fr. Mathew. Fr. was accompanied
by Bosco and safely transported through and fro from Mumbai by Khemchand.
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