Our Social Contribution

To all of us at Lokmat, we are much more than just a newspaper group. We are a social movement. That's why we always contribute in some way to worthy social causes through Lokmat Charitable Trust. Some of our works include:

• Construction of schools in the flood affected villages in Nanded and Parbhani districts of Maharashtra in 1984.
  
  
  
• Rs 1.8 million donation to Prime Minister's Fund for earthquake victims of Bihar in 1988. f
  
  
  
• Construction of an 8-room Primary School & a 10-bed Hospital in flood-affected Jalalkheda and Mowad towns in Nagpur district.
  
  
  
• Construction of two Schools and a Community hall at a cost of Rs 2 million after the devastating earthquake of Latur and Beed in 1989.
  
  
  
• Donating Rs 180,000 to every family of the 41 martyrs of the Kargil war.
  
  
  
• Constructed hostels at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Solapur at a cost of Rs. 16 million for the martyrs' children in association with the Soldier Welfare Board.
  
  
  
• Constructed 8 School buildings in the earthquake affected Bhuj area of Gujarat at a cost of Rs. 7 million.
  
  
  
• Constructed an ICU at a cost of Rs.2.7 million at Seth Govinddas Hospital [Victoria Hospital] at Jabalpur after the earthquake.
  
  
  
• Supplied several tons of nutritious food to malnourished children of the Melghat taluka of Vidarbha region in 2004. Lokmat's team monitored their progression from lower to a higher category of nutrition, thereby saving over 750 children from malnutrition death.