All India Bhatnagar Upkarak Fund Trust
It was in the year 1923 that the elders in the community started giving shape to the idea of devising some measure by which the needy and the poor of the community could be provided monetary help by the community to restore their lives to a dignified existence within the community fold.
The initiative received support and culminated ultimately in the establishment of the "All India Bhatnagar Upkarak Fund" as a trust of the community fully capable of functioning in its supportive role. As the history goes the foundation of the Trust was laid down at the second All India Bhatnagar Conference held at Sikandrabad (Bulandshahar) under the Chairmanship of Shri Raj Narain Bhatnagar, a well known personality of his time, a full fledged engineer by profession serving as Superintending Engineer of the Sarda Canal project, Lucknow. He was ably supported by a Sub Committee comprising four members, Rai Bahadur Munshi Har Swaroop Rais, Jalalabad of Meerut district, Shri Jwala Swaroop, Vakil, Rohtak, Rai Sahib Shiv Sahai Rais, Rohtak and Professor Nand Lal of Meerut in the task. Munshi Mukand Swaroop Rais, Sikandrabad and Rai Sahib Sri Sampat Rai, Minister Sangrur were declared Patrons of the Fund.
The fund which was initially established as only a Fund, passed through a prolonged process before developing into a full-fledged Trust in a meeting of the Kayasth Bhatnagar Sadar Sabha Hind (KBSSH) held in Delhi in December, 1979 replacing the All India Upkarak Fund, by which name it was known until then. In the meeting it was given an independent and autonomous status as a wing of the KBSSH. Another well known personality of the community, Justice S.D. Singh was elected its Chairman and Shri Roop Kishore Bhatnagar, another Engineer took over as its Secretary. The Trust was registered on 21, September 1982 and the Rules governing the Trust were published in the "Bhatnagar Samachar", another organ of the KBSSH, in its issue of August 1985.
An important aspect of the history of the Fund is the fact that though the idea to give it shape originated within the community and subsequently promoted by the members of the community, the Fund in the years of its early development did not include the word "Bhatnagar' as part of its name. It was later when the KBSSH passed a resolution to include the word Bhatnagar as part of the name of the Fund, which had by then become a Trust, that the executive members of the Trustees made concerted efforts to add the word 'Bhatnagar' in the name of the Trust and it could finally get registered as "All India Bhatnagar Upkarak Fund Trust" on 31, January 2003 only. This change came about due to the painstaking efforts of Shri Krishan Gopal Sarup Bhatnagar of Meerut, Deputy Secretary of the Trust.
The Fund which was started from donations amounting to Rs.2237.00 in the first year of its coming into existence soon started to attract attention of the community members due mainly to the untiring efforts of the early office bearers of the fund and from thousands it swelled to lacs over the years. Today i.e. end of 2009 its total assets stand at about Rs.23 lacs. Out of its funds the Trust pays an amount exceeding Rupees one lac every year to students as stipends, merit awards to brilliant students, and relief help to destitute and medical help to needy members of the community.
The Trust has about 175 Endowments at present. The permanent capital fund and all other monies of the Trust are invested in Government Securities or in term deposits with approved Banks or in the UTI. All the income and expenditure of the Trust are entered in the prescribed books and are audited by a Chartered Accountant and the audited accounts are published in Bhatnagar Samachar for the information of the Donors and the members of the Biradiri.
The Trustees of the All India Bhatnagar Upkarak Fund Trust issue appeal to the members of the community time to time to donate regularly to the Trust on all such occasions as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, children's success in examinations and in memoriam. The small sums so donated regularly can accrue to become big support to all those of the community who are in need today and are passing through some rough patches in life. It is by giving only that one can receive.
The donations can be given in the form of Demand Drafts/Crossed Cheques in favour of Secretary, All India Bhatnagar Upkarak Fund Trust and sent to their address as follows: 11/208, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad 201010. (Telephone: 0120-2880107, Mobile:09968142030).
The present Trustees in the Board of Trustees are as follows:
Permanent Trustees:
1. Shri Krishna Gopal Swarup Bhatnagar, Chairman, Gali No.01, Panchsheel Colony, Garh Road, Meerut
2. Dr. Virendra Kumar Bhatnagar, A 1, Ring Road, South Extension, New Delhi
3. Shri Brij Gopal Bhatnagar, 21 Telephone Colony, Tonk Road, Jaipur
4. Shri H.N.Bhatnagar, 11/208, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad.
Ex-Officio Trustees:
1. Shri S.K.Kumar Bhatnagar (President,KBSSH), 1,Pushpak Kunj, 53-A, Saket, Meerut
2. Shri Ravi Prakash Bhatnagar (Secretary, KBSSH), BD 11 E, DDA Flats, Munirka, New Delhi
Non-Permanent Trustees:
1. Shri Jagdeesh Prasad Bhatnagar, F 9, DDA Flats, Munirka, New Delhi
2. Dr. Sant Kumar Bhatnagar, D 1/73, Sector – 4, Vinay Nagar, Gwalior (M.P.)
3. Dr. R.P.Bhatnagar, F 3, Railway Officers Flats, Workshop Complex, Parel, Mumbai
4. Shri Vikhyat Kumar, Flat No. C 226, Kendriya Vihar, Sector 56, Gurgaon, Haryana
5. Shri Piyush Chandra Bhatnagar, 73 Rispana Road, Block II, Dehra Dun
Co-opted Members:
1. Shri Omeshwar Dayal Singh, 50 Sansawar Nagar, Near Akashvani Society,
Makarpur Road, Baroda, Gujarat
2. Shri Rakesh Bhatnagar, 3, Hanuman Puri, Meerut
3. Shri Ravindra Shankar Bhatnagar, 1132, Sector 3, Shastrinagar,
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