About Arpana Services

Mission Statement To serve the underprivileged in identification with their needs and aspirations and enable all to work towards their maximum potential.

Arpana is a non political, secular, charitable organisation, guiding its dedicated workers to translate the ideal of the brotherhood of man into practical living, through selfless service of those less privileged, and total identification.

Projects for the Welfare of marginalised rural folk and urban slum dwellers, with a focus on holistic health, gender equity, socio-economic welfare and empowerment of women. Arpana has carried out wide ranging services for the disadvantaged, including health and development programs in three North Indian States - Haryana, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh.

Volunteers from different lands and social backgrounds, including many professionals with considerable experience, learning to practice selfless service of those less privileged. With the growth in our services, more salaried staff have been taken on, but all are dedicated to Arpana's vision of committed service.

Changing the lives of over 250,000 people, through intensive health care & development in 4 States of Northern India. See details of Recognition received by Arpana

Arpana's health care & development programs are being supported by International Funding Agencies such as: Christoffel Blindenmission, Germany; HelpAge India; Pfizer India & Pfizer Foundation, U.S.A; Guernsey Overseas Aid Committee, Channel Islands; HCD Memorial Fund, U.K.; India Development & Relief Fund, U.S.A.; Tides Foundation, U.S.A.; CordAid, Netherlands; Aviva, and many individuals such as HRH Prince Al Waleed of Saudi Arabia, HRH The Prince of Wales, Trustees of Arpana Charitable Trust, U.K.

Arpana's rural services began in 1978 when Arpana's Chairman, Dr J.K. Mehta, visited nearby villages to provide medical care. The Arpana Hospital was set up at Madhuban in Haryana in 1980, when Dr Ela Anand, a gynaecologist, and her surgeon husband, Dr A.K. Anand, came to Arpana. It became a training & referral centre for 50 surrounding villages in response to critical health conditions in the area. Arpana Medical Centre and Gajnoi Health & Socio-economic Centre were set up in Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh in the 1990's. Molar Bund Slum Development Project began in one small slum of 700 people in 1992, and expanded to cover over 50,000 people, relocated from many slums in Delhi.

Arpana Trust conducts programs for a population of over 50,000 in a resettlement colony for slum dwellers at Molar Bund in Delhi.
Arpana Research & Charities Trust conducts Health and socio economic programs for over 250,000 rural people in Karnal District of Haryana, and Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh. Patients come to Arpana Hospital from over 500 villages and several towns of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.