SIR GANGADHARRAO CHITNAVIS TRUST
Sir Gangadharrao Chitnavis
Sir Gangadharao Chitnavis Memorial Medical Research Trust is a registered charitable trust, which works in the field of human welfare, human rights, medical relief, education, promotion of art and culture and protection of the environment.
Shri Madhav Gangadharao Chitnavis founded the Trust in the memory of his father in the year 1972. The primary objective of the Trust was to promote Medical Research. The objectives have since been enlarged to include human welfare, protection of human rights, medical relief, education, promotion of art and culture and protection of the environment. The Trust is registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 bearing registration number PTR E-831 (Nagpur).
The Trust is registered under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act and under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (Registration No 083870175)
Shri Madhav Gangadharrao Chitnavis
The Trust is registered under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act and under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (Registration No 083870175)
A word of appreciation by the then leading Newspapers:-
“Sir Gangadharrao Chitnavis is known as moderate of moderates, but he has the knack of putting things which often times satisfies all parties”
– Amrit Bazar Patrika, 18th May 1918.
“Sir Gangadharrao is a man of wealth, industry and pioneerous ability. He holds extremely moderate opinions, and has always been on the best terms with officials without falling out with his own countrymen.”
-Leader, 20th Aug 1917.