History

Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi “ Change we believe is the only constant, But if a vision remains constant There is no limit to what can be achieved”

Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi had a multi-faceted personality. He was a born administrator and an ardent believer of God. He was never after power and had led a very simple life. Throughout his life, he helped many people, including his relatives, friends and refugees by setting up industries for them. He was particularly sympathetic towards poor and needy, who used to love and respect him a lot. He won respect and esteem of everybody because of his inimitable capacity to distinguish between right and wrong and to stand up fearlessly for what he regarded as his moral duty.

As a philanthropist, he contributed greatly in the field of education. He established a chain of schools and colleges at his birth place, Mahinder Garh, in Patiala and in Modinagar. He also contributed a lot in the field of higher education by giving grants to established institutions such as Banaras Hindu University, and different colleges in Meerut and other places.

Educational Institutions under the Modi Group

Multani Mal Modi Post-Graduate College, Modinagar
Multani Mal Modi Degree College, Patiala
Modi Science & Commerce College, Modinagar
Rukmani Modi Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Modinagar
Dayawati Modi Public School, Modinagar
Dayawati Modi High School, G.M. Modigram, Kathwara, Rai Barelli
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Sikrikalan
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Devendrapuri, Modinagar
Gayatri Devi Modi Junior High School, Kedarpura, Modinagar
Chandidevi Modi Junior High School, Modipuram
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Saidpur
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Abupur
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Bhojpur
Pramila Devi Modi Junior High School, Harmukhpuri, Modinagar
Dayawati Modi Junior High School, Shahjahanpur
Condensed Course of Education for Adult Women, Modinagar
Chheda Lal Shishu Niketan, Kasganj, Etah
Chandidevi Modi Primary School, Modipuram
Chandidevi Modi Nursery School, Modipuram
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, Modinagar
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, Modipuram
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, Kedarpura, Modinagar
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, Sikrikalan
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, Abupur
Dayawati Modi Mahila Shilpa Kala Kendra, G.M. Modigram, Kathwara, Rai Barelli

He establised a Women's Training College and Nurses' Training Centre in Modinagar in 1965. All these above-mentioned institution's provide education to more than 16,000 students. Dependants of the workers of different Modinagar industries get free education or training in these institutions. Monetary help and stipends are also given to students going in for higher education in India or abroad.

He also established a High School and a Sanskrit Pathshala at Mahinder Garh, his birth place, and a Degree College in Patiala, which was named after his father.

He was interested in Scientific Research and Development. He contributed Rs. 2.5 million for the establishment of the Modi Science Foundation in Modinagar in 1975. It has a cotton development scheme meant for training cotton growers, and it uses the latest methods of producing highly yielding varieties of natural fibre.

However, his biggest contribution to the cause of public welfare is the Eye Hospital and Ophthalmic Reasearch Centre in Modinagar to which he contributed Rs. 3 million. It is now working in collaboration with the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Its foundation ceremony was performed on 26 April 1975 by the late President of India, Mr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. This research centre is an integrated centre for promotive, preventive, curative and re-habilitative care backed by education and research. It does not only endeavour to prevent eye disease and blindness through appropriate methods of publicity media, by conducting surveys in schools and colleges, and industrial and rural areas and to continuously evaluate the community needs, but it also has a mobile unit fully equipped with instruments and medicines for giving immediate relief to patients at their door-steps. It helps to collect statistics of the eye disease cases in rural and industrial areas to help the government to plan various ophthalmic health programmes. He realised the dire need of such a centre in the country. He was determined to make the centre a model institution to control blindness. He had also made up his mind to create employment opportunities for the blind.

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