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The Man with Many Hats and a Golden Heart

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Ravindra Mardia is one of the India's prominent industrialist, and humanitarian at heart, to get inspired from his ideology of Leadership and Personal Mastery. His kindness and his initiative NGO’s include ABMVS (Akhil Bhartiya Manav Vikas Sanstha) & ICAC (International Creative Art Center), making him a genuine worldwide wonder for helping individuals. Ravindra Mardia, an extremely successful industrialist, chose to retire from business at the age of 55, and since then he has devoted his life for the development of young and talented artists. During the short period of time, he has supported thousands of artists not only with the support of art material and scholarships but also promoting them and exhibiting works. Shri Ravindra Mardia ji is currently supporting Artists, including Indian Tribal & Traditional Artists, by providing them apt platform to show their work, by giving Scholarships, Awards, holding Art Camps and Art Residencies. Till now he has held 64 Exhibitions and 36 Art Camps. Thousands of Artists have benefitted from his various programs.

During 2000 to 2010 his NGO ABMVS has Provided free medical treatment, and free ambulance services in 1100 villages, he has facilitated 50 Computers to various Primary schools and Gram Panchayats in the area. He also distributed 10 kgs of free food grains to 2250 families for the most needy in 465 villages. Shri Ravindra Mardia also set up several Training and Coaching classes for women to learn Stitching, Bag making and other crafts, benefiting more than 450 women in 12 villages. He made arrangements for 16 free tuition classes for the students of 10th & 12th std at various locations. In the area of operation for the subjects like English, Arithmetic and Science. Total 1,800 students were benefited from this project. He has provided 6,50,000 note books in the area to about 50,000 female students, during the years 2003 to 2009. To encourage children, and create awareness about the importance of education, he publicly honoured the 10th & 12th Std. students (total 368) securing 1st 2nd & 3rd rank in their respective Talukas, covering all the 10 Talukas.

To encourage very young to attend to school, he has provided necessary slate, chalk & school bags etc., to more than 2000 children. To inculcate the value of time among the villagers, ABMVS has provided more than 8000 Wall clocks in the area, for public use, covering all the Primary SchoolsSecondary schools, all the Anganwadis, all Gram panchayat offices, and some Mamlatdar offices, some BRC and CRC offices, Doodh Mandli Offices etc. etc. ABMVS has also provided more than 1 Lakh Calendars to the villagers covering all the 10 Talukas, for the year 2004-05-06.

ABMVS was the first NGO of the country to comply with ISO 9001-2000 Certification. Hon’ble Governor of Gujarat, Shri Naval Kishore Sharma presented him this Certification at an August gathering of several prominent citizens of Dehgam and Gandhinagar. Ravindra Mardia believed that sports rises as an essential part of financial improvement of a nation. The dynamic interest in sports enhances network wellbeing and profitability, lessens medicinal costs, assimilates teach in character and upgrades social attachment.. To motivate the youth of the area he has sponsored Cricket Matches and distributed 3000 Cricket, Volly Ball & Basket Ball Kits, and othersports equipment to various youth clubs, in all the Talukas. He has organized several ‘Jan Sampark Samaroh’, in all the 10 Talukas, gathering support of majority of District Delegates, Taluka Delegates, Sarpanchas, Talaties, Prominent local leaders and more than 14000 volunteers enrolled by the ABMVS.

Ravindra Mardia has not left any Endeavour to serve in his life, which includes women empowerment, Nutrition for children and women, employment opportunities to lakhs of people, sponsored education, worked remarkably on international level for various de-addiction programs, outstanding contribution in providing medical aids, working for the emotional wellness and overall development of youth, providing platform to Indian artists on International level, working for communal harmony and welfare of labours and much more. He is the ideal human being who has done remarkable contribution to humankind and for the upliftment of mankind. Considering the social work done by Ravindra Mardia for the rural society and millions of people in India, and now promoting visual artists, All the above mentioned activities of Shri Ravindra Mardia are documented and recognized by several local organisations.

Ravindra Mardia believed that absence of education, is as yet a significant issue and major hindrance for Indians. An absence of dialect appreciation can make numerous issues with training and work sometime down the road, so making pathways to build up these abilities at an opportune time could have an important effect in numerous individuals' lives. There are a few different ways curators can advance youth proficiency other than more intelligent story time sessions.





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