The down town Charity Trust was formed in 1997 by the down town hospital ltd. The urge to do something for the underprivileged and deprived section of the society led to the formation of down town Charity Trust. Apart from doctors, the members of the Trust include Engineers, Educationists and other professionals from various walks of life. The down town Charity Trust is promoted by down town hospital ltd., the first corporate multi specialty hospital in North Eastern India. It has a distinguished name in the healthcare industry, serving the people of Assam and the North Eastern Region with its expertise for the last 23 years.
Mission of the trust :
To reach premium healthcare facilities to the economically weaker sections of the society
Create infrastructure to develop the human resource of the region
Over the years, the trust has been involved in varied social activities like organising free health camps, undertaking special health programs like the Smile Train Project, the Dhwani Project as well as a free clothes bank “Sankar Madhab Vastra Bank” for the low income group population.The trust has established the Shankar Madhab Rural Charity Hospital at Panikhaiti Assam with the intention to provide quality healthcare at the most reasonable rates to the common people.
Keeping in mind with its second main objective the trust has embarked on the largest educational project of the North Eastern Region. It has partially set up the largest educational campus of the region at Panikhaiti,Assam. The trust has started with Nursing and paramedical programs.Over the coming years the trust intends to add other streams of study as well.
The trust envisages that in the next ten years it can establish one consolidated campus offering almost all available programs to the students of the NE Region. Thus , help is saving brain drain from this region.It believes this will greatly help in improving the quality of human resource in the country.