Ravi Rohmetra
Duggar land has produced politicians, writers, actors and leaders of caliber, prominent amongst them is renowned social activist and contractor T.R. Gupta who was born on 26th Jan. 1929, to Gourimal Gupta and Sita Devi of a small village Rattian, R.S. Pura.
During his childhood, his native village was bereft of any comfort and resources. There was not even a school, hence he got his primary education in a very dilapidated school building by sitting on bare ground of one room. He passed his matriculation from R.S. Pura District Jammu. Later he passed intermediate examination (12th Class) from Prince of Wales College (now Govt. Gandhi Memorial Science College) Jammu in the year 1948.
T.R. Gupta grew into a man of magnanimity, benevolence, compassion and determination. He was also very disgusted with the social evils prevailing in the society especially in Mahajan Community all over India and introduced many reforms to remove them. He started his career with a grocery shop in his village initially in 1949, followed by Aata-Chakki and mini rice mill at village Arnia, Tehsil R.S. Pura. But he was not destined to be a short time trader only, because a meager income from these trades was not enough to fulfill his desire of broader mission to help poor, downtrodden and needy people. Hence he restarted the career as a petty contractor in partnership with another contractor in 1957. Later on, he started taking up bigger works first as a partner in firm and later in his individual capacity like Ujh barrage, Lift Irrigation Tawi Canal from Bahu Fort to Channi.
To further his mission of achieving new horizons and new heights in the business and social stature, he worked with utmost dedication, commitment and perseverance which resulted in giving him good dividends in his work. He while working hard to expand his financial ventures never forgot his basic aim of benevolence, compassion and humane approach in helping poor and needy persons. That is why he is called “Bhamashah” of Jammu.
With the grace of God , T.R. Gupta received full support from his workers because of his nature of accommodation, resilience and understanding their problems, due to which he got more and more profit from his businesses. He gave bonus ranging from 8% to 20% regularly to them besides making many welfare schemes available to them. He formed a private limited company in 1980 named as TRG Industries Private Limited”.
Over a period of time the company assumed a significant and enviable status under the Chairmanship and Managing Directorship of T.R. Gupta. The company received many commendations and appreciations from various Government departments for the excellent working and successful completion of works most efficiently.
T.R. Gupta is so loved and adored by the people because of his easily approachable nature, humility and compassion that Jammu Central Mahajan Sabha unanimously elected him as President, the post at which he served the birdari with full dedication and sincerity from 1991 to 1997. Thereafter, again the entire biradari of whole country gave him the responsibility of the Presidentship of Akhil Bhartiya Mahajan Shiromani Sabha New Delhi, the position that he held from 1997-2006. During all these years, he gave the best of his ability to steer the Biradari to assume new dimensions in developmental activities. He gave his precious time, physical involvement even at the cost of his health and financial help with all sincerity and devotion, which is comparable to none. For his dedication and achievements, the grateful Biradari, in an All – India conference, bestowed upon him the title of “Mahajan Rattan”.
While working hard for the progress of his business and also for the social activities, T.R. Gupta never ignored his commitment of benevolence and noble mission. He regularly contributed for the welfare of the needy persons, social organizations, religious causes, orphanages, old age homes, charitable organizations, for the protection of cows, etc. and also donated liberally when our nation faced any serious calamity or pandemic. He also donated an ambulance to Central Mahajan Sabha, for public use.
After completing his 91 years of illustrious life Sh. T.R. Gupta donated the cheques of Rs.1.42.28000/- to various Socio/ Religious organizations, Charitable trusts, charitable dispensaries, cremation places, charitable hospitals, blind schools, widows, destitutes, cancer patients, Gou Raksha Samiti, Generator Sets for temples and senior citizens center, inner wheel house for mentally retarded children, ambulances for needy people and Prime Minister’ Care account.
During long years of his life, T.R. Gupta faced many hurdles, roadblocks and challenges. Many times he passed through physical trauma, financial setbacks in business and loss of near and dear ones from time to time. But being a steadfast crusader, man of very strong will power and unflinched determination, he not only overcame these hurdles but also emerged victorious out of these challenges every time.
Almost at the age of 90 years, T.R. Gupta founded a charitable trust by the name as “T.R. Gupta Public Charitable Trust, which works for the welfare of the society in general. The said trust provides financial assistance to needy persons, healthcare schemes, education of the poor and deserving students and other genuine social activities like provision of ambulance for the healthcare institutions and also for carrying the dead bodies for cremation. He also donated 4 crores to the Trust for carrying out the activities of the trust.
Although, T.R. Gupta received countless State Level and National Level Awards, commendations and appreciations for his social acumen, benevolence, efficiency in business, sagacious decisions and life achievements, yet he always took the blessings and good wishes of the people whose sufferings have been mitigated and wounds of deprivation healed by him as most prestigious awards.
He even at 93 years age is very active and devotes maximum time for business and social related activities.He rise from petty contractor to a big businessman is tremendous achievement.
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