This is a man who has paid his dues many times over but never once forgotten where he’s come from. It’s fitting then that the last mile of the Sushil Ansal’s saga must take us to Kahma, the little village in Nawashahr District, Jalandar, where the Ansals started their journey. In 1975, Sushil and his father opened a hospital in Kahma.
Today the Hansraj Government Hospital – named for Sushil Ansal’s grandfather – serves the village and many surrounding ones as well. Every November, the Ansals organise a free eye camp at the hospital and this is when the family tries to visit. When Kusum went to Kahma for the first time, she was touched by the reception. “There was so much goodwill,” she remembers, “I was treated as the daughter-in-law of the village.” The Kahma Welfare Committee, an NGO that the Ansals have incubated, is now building a computer education centre that will have special facilities for female students. Shri Taman Singh, dynamic General Secretary of Kamha Welfare Committee says “Kamha village and its neighbouring villages are Highly grateful to Sushil ji and Lalaji (Sushi’s father) for donating Hansraj Government Hospital and for continuously giving financial assistance to meet the expenses of doctors, medicines and annual health check-up/ eye camps on regular basis. Their soul and spirit still throbs in the village and surrounding areas.”
The hospital has been built on the agricultural land that was once all that the Ansals owned. “My grandfather had sugarcane fields,” Sushil Ansal says, dipping into stories he has heard, “he used to harvest the crop, make gur [jaggery] and then sell it in his little shop.” It was a small village and a simple life. Sushil runs a business empire that is exponentially larger and lives in a city much bigger than Kahma can imagine. Yet, somehow, that simplicity has never left him. To his friends and well-wishers, the sweet taste of the jaggery his ancestors sold defines him. As he learnt from his father, human service is the best of all prayers, and it still runs in his veins.
Shri Sushil Ansal, Chairman of the Ansal Api Company has been actively associated with the social welfare activities of the Human Welfare Mission, founded by his father late Shri Chiranji Lal Ansal. The Chairman has expanded the scope of the welfare activities of the Group to help and reach out to innumerable people belonging to the socially and economically backward strata of the society.
sushil ansalToday the Hansraj Government Hospital – named for Sushil Ansal’s grandfather – serves the village and many surrounding ones as well. Every November, the Ansals organise a free eye camp at the hospital and this is when the family tries to visit. When Kusum went to Kahma for the first time, she was touched by the reception. “There was so much goodwill,” she remembers, “I was treated as the daughter-in-law of the village.” The Kahma Welfare Committee, an NGO that the Ansals have incubated, is now building a computer education centre that will have special facilities for female students. Shri Taman Singh, dynamic General Secretary of Kamha Welfare Committee says “Kamha village and its neighbouring villages are Highly grateful to Sushil ji and Lalaji (Sushi’s father) for donating Hansraj Government Hospital and for continuously giving financial assistance to meet the expenses of doctors, medicines and annual health check-up/ eye camps on regular basis. Their soul and spirit still throbs in the village and surrounding areas.”
The hospital has been built on the agricultural land that was once all that the Ansals owned. “My grandfather had sugarcane fields,” Sushil Ansal says, dipping into stories he has heard, “he used to harvest the crop, make gur [jaggery] and then sell it in his little shop.” It was a small village and a simple life. Sushil runs a business empire that is exponentially larger and lives in a city much bigger than Kahma can imagine. Yet, somehow, that simplicity has never left him. To his friends and well-wishers, the sweet taste of the jaggery his ancestors sold defines him. As he learnt from his father, human service is the best of all prayers, and it still runs in his veins.
Shri Sushil Ansal, Chairman of the Ansal Api Company has been actively associated with the social welfare activities of the Human Welfare Mission, founded by his father late Shri Chiranji Lal Ansal. The Chairman has expanded the scope of the welfare activities of the Group to help and reach out to innumerable people belonging to the socially and economically backward strata of the society.
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