WHEELS Leadership visits Satya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, India

27-29 Jan 2025

Watch the Video of the Visit

The leadership team from WHEELS Global Foundation USA visited the rural campus of Sri Madhusudan Sai’s Global Humanitarian Mission which is dedicated to transforming Rural India’s Nutrition, Healthcare and Education. ( / @smsghm).

The team spent 2 days visiting the various institutions located on the 150-acre campus, including:

1. India’s first free rural medical college – inaugurated by Prime Minister Hon Narendra Modi in 2023, to train a new generation of medical professionals to serve in rural areas.

2. A multi-specialty, state-of-the-art hospital which serves over 1400 outpatients each day; rural patients hailing from the 1500 or so villages in Chikkaballapur district, All services are provided free of cost. This hospital does not have a billing counter.

3. Under construction – the world’s largest free Teaching hospital with 600 beds, multiple operating theaters, ICUs, etc to be opened in November 2025.

4. A state-of-the-art nutraceutical manufacturing facility that produces the SaiSure micronutrient-protein powder which is served with milk to Govt school children across India each morning. Currently serving 10 million children, across 25 States and 4 Union Territories.

5. A Skills Development Center to train rural school dropouts to become plumbers, electricians, and other useful trades skills to support the maintenance needs of medical and educational institutions located in rural areas.

6. A free school for rural children from grades 6 through 12, educating over 1000 children on campus

7. A Gaushala with 150 desi cows of various breeds

8. A Veda Patashala set up as a Gurukul to educate the next generation of Vedic scholars and pandits

9. An international standard sports and cricket stadium to host world-class athletes and sports events

10. A music school for Hindustani and Carnatic music, which is also home to the Sai Symphony – India’s 2nd symphony orchestra – consisting of rural students who have been trained by an international music conductor

11. A world-class 5000 seating auditorium that has hosted top musicians and dancers from all over the world (https://mondodrawards.com/2021/portfo)

In addition to the campus tour, the visitors also participated in a mini-symposium focused on “Technology for Rural Transformation” – leading to a series of collaborative projects being defined between the 2 organizations. The IIT alumni group included the following Board members of WHEELS Global Foundation:

1. Dr. Hitendra Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur (1958), Former VP of Quality Systems, Hughes Network Systems, lives in Rockville MD

2. Dr. Sushil Bhatia, IIT Bombay (1966), Serial Entrepreneur, IBM engineer, lives in Iselin NJ

3. Dr. Ram Ramanan, IIT Kharagpur (1971), Sustainability leader, and former Exxon-Mobil manager, lives in Englewood CO

4. Suresh Shenoy, IIT Bombay (1972), funded the Shenoy Innovation Studio at IIT-B, lives in Great Falls VA

5. Yadav Murti Sankaran, IIT Madras (MTech 1976), former COO of Liners India, lives in Chennai

6. Sunil Khanna, IIT BHU (1976), Non exec Chairman Vertiv India, lives in Bengaluru

7. T K Mukherji, IIT Kharagpur (1982), CEO Cybertec, Baltimore, lives in MD

8. Dr. Vibha Gupta, IIT Delhi (PhD 1993), Chair Magan Sangrahalaya Samiti, from Wardha, Maharashtra

9. Dr. Bindu Kansupada, MD, Vice Chair WHEELS Health Council, Cardiologist from Yardley PA

For enquiry Mail: info@wheelsglobal.org

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