Hailing from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, with a modest beginning, through sheer grit, hard work and foresight, Mr. Shiv rose from being the erstwhile president of M/s. Bharat Steel Tubes Ltd. to owning a large professional, diverse enterprise and providing employments to hundreds of people.

His job took him to various parts of the globe but he always looked towards his own country, particularly to under developed villages near Kullu valley where he spent few years of his early childhood. The malnourished children, sick and hungry old people, unemployed youth of the distant and far flung villages of this area camouflaged under beautiful mountains, caught his attention.

While the business enterprise grew under the able stewardship of his children, Mr. Shiv, with the support of a few like-minded souls, lunged head long into doing "Something" for these under privileged areas.

An approach with a difference

Conventionally, the focus of all aids / projects have been urban-oriented with very little thought going to the rural issues causing migration to urban areas, thereby creating new problems for both urban and rural populations.

Help Rural India aims at alleviating some of the fundamental issues of, the underprivileged Rural India providiang self sustainance and improving the quality of their lives.

What began as a small step towards poverty-alleviation by distributing monthly rations, is turning out to be a revolution of sorts.

Today Help Rural India, is administered by a small group of dedicated voluntary professionals reaching out to a large segment of the rural poor. The ongoing and future activities of Help Rural India are:

• Providing monthly rations to nearly 500 families. (As per report of National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, published in The Economic Times, New Delhi, dated 05.04.2005, 3 out of 1000 rural families do not get enough to eat)
  
  
• Regular Health Clinics at Takoli, Bhomshi (Mandi Distt.), Bajoura (Kullu Distt.), free of cost (including Medicines).
  
  We have already held numerous free medical camps in Himachal Pradesh, Uttranchal & Maharashtra, in association with:
  
  
  • Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi.
  • Max Heart & Vascular Institute, New Delhi.
    
    
  Arranging Medical Camps by reputed doctors from India and Overseas.
  
  Such Camps have been attended by State Ministers, Senior administrators Police officials, Local Panchayat heads etc. Thousands of needy people are benefitted from these camps held at :
  
  
  • Nagwain - Kullu (H.P.)
  • Raison - Kullu (H.P.)
  • Bhagwanpur - Roorkee (Uttranchal)
  • Hoshiarpur (Punjab) etc.
  • Nagrota-Kangra (H.P.) etc.
  • Alibagh -Raigad (Maharashtra) etc.
    
    
• Arranging blankets / clothes / household goods.
  
  
• Opening education centers /Computer Literacy Initiatives.
  
  
• Jobs for the local youths by absorbing them in different organizations. Encouragement to handicrafts / vocational skills and running Local centers.
  
  
• Distributing free knitting / sewing machines (so far about 1500 Nos.) to the rural poor women of Himachal Pradesh and Uttranchal.

Companies like M/s. BSL Scaffolding Ltd. M/s. NEC Industrial Projects Pvt. Ltd. have in principal agreed to absorb under-privileged unemployed youth registered with Help Rural India.