Haryana · Himachal · DelhiAn Indian institution since 1963
From service to self-reliance.
For more than six decades, Arpana has transformed humane values into action — strengthening health, opportunity and self-reliance across communities in India.
Institutional scale
Not a charity that gives. An institution that builds.
A hospital, women's federations, farmer producer organisations, education centres — each designed to outlast the help that started it.
Our work — four expressions of one idea
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Story · Empower
Manju wanted more for her daughters.
Her family once lived on about ₹1,300 a month. Through her self-help group she saved ₹96,600, borrowed with discipline, and invested in work that paid. One daughter completed an engineering degree. Another, Neha, joined the Indian Army — the first young woman from their village to do so.
“My children are not only educated — they are bringing pride to our entire village.”
Arpana Hospital · Madhuban, Karnal
A hospital built on a promise.
In 1980, Param Pujya Ma and the members of Arpana set out to bring modern medical care to rural people who had none. Forty-five years later, Arpana Hospital is a NABH-accredited, 100-bed charitable multi-specialty institution — and no patient is turned away for inability to pay.
1980
A cottage hospital in Madhuban.
Today
Charitable multi-specialty hospital — ICU, CCU, Level 2 NICU, four modular operation theatres, cath lab, oncology, eye bank, 24×7 emergency and seven ambulances.
One year · April 2025 – March 2026
- 88,483
- patients
- 2,398
- surgeries
- 1,187
- intensive-care patients
- 82,171
- diagnostic tests
- 18,966
- people reached by village camps
- 318
- free cataract and eye surgeries
1 Aug 2025
A cardiology department with an advanced cardiac catheterisation laboratory, a dedicated oncology department, an eye bank and a bronchoscopy unit opened on a single day — the largest expansion of clinical capability in the hospital's history.
Empower · Haryana
When women build financial strength, communities change with them.
Since 2000, Arpana has worked with rural women in Karnal district to form self-help groups: monthly savings, internal lending, shared records, and — increasingly — collective action on health, water and governance. Two federations, led by the women themselves, now represent all 1,083 groups.
Women's self-help groups, 2010 – 2026
- ₹84.95 crore
- cumulative savings held by the groups
- 5,753
- loans disbursed between members this year
- 108
- villages · 1,247 persons with disabilities organised in 52 further groups
Enable · Himachal Pradesh
Water reached the fields. Opportunity followed.
In the remote hamlets of Chamba, villagers built six new irrigation systems this year — storage tanks and pipelines to the fields — with Arpana's facilitation. Cultivated land in those villages grew from 1,442 to 3,474 biswas. Subsistence farmers earned cash income for the first time.
more cultivated land
irrigation systems since 2023
trees planted by SHG women
Educate · Delhi
The journey does not end when a child passes school.
At the education centres in Molarbund and Vasant Vihar, children from resettlement colonies — most of them the first in their families to study — receive tuition from Class 1 through Class 12, then coaching for university entrance and professional training. This year every one of the 112 board-exam candidates passed.
- 01
First-generation learner
348 children in Balvatika early education
- 02
School success
1,101 students in tuition, Classes 1–12 · 100% pass in Class 10 and 12 boards
- 03
University
11 students cleared CUET for Delhi University — Gargi, Lady Shri Ram, Maitreyi, PGDAV
- 04
Professional skills
127 vocational completions · IT, dialysis and retail diplomas
- 05
Opportunity
Careers their parents could not have imagined for them
Story · Heal
Ompati, 74, sees clearly again.
A widow living with her son, a farmer, Ompati had lost the sight in her right eye to a cataract. The laser surgery she was recommended elsewhere was beyond the family's means. At Arpana Hospital, surgeons removed the cataract without it. Her sight was restored.
People, in their own places.
Explore more stories →Enable · Guwani, Chamba
Pooja Devi grows the income that keeps three daughters in school.
Radishes, cucumbers and vegetables sold through the FPO earn ₹60,000–70,000 a year.
Heal · Kalram, Gharaunda
Pranav, 13, was admitted as an emergency. He is back in Class 7.
Five days of fever, then coughing blood. Diagnosed and treated at Arpana Hospital; recovered fully.
Educate · Molarbund, Delhi
Samiya topped her Class 12 boards with 93%.
First of 33 Arpana students in the 2025 boards — one of the cohort now at Delhi University.
Arpana's founder and inspiration. The Trust was registered in 1963 to carry her words and work forward.
Our story
The idea that began Arpana.
Arpana began not with a programme but with a conviction: that dignity, compassion, honesty, humility, fearlessness and service are not the property of any one faith, but the common ground of being human.
Param Pujya Ma taught that to serve those in need is the most practical form of devotion. Her community in Madhuban put that teaching to work — first as a small hospital, then in the villages around it, then wherever capability was missing and people were ready to build it.
“All people, whoever they may be and of whichever faith, belong to one universal family.”
Six decades, one direction.
History & legacy →- 1963
Arpana Trust registered as a society in Madhuban, Karnal.
- 1980
Arpana Hospital opens as a 13-bed cottage hospital.
- 1993
WHO Sasakawa Health Prize recognises Arpana's rural health work.
- 2000
Intensive self-help group work with rural women begins in Karnal district.
- 2016
Two Farmer Producer Organisations formed in Chamba with NABARD.
- 2025-26
Cardiology, oncology and eye bank open; 1,083 SHGs; 724 FPO farmers; 1,500+ students.
Where we work
Three states. One headquarters in a village.
Arpana is run from Madhuban, a village in Karnal district, Haryana — not from a city office. Its programmes reach the plains of Haryana, the Ravi valley in Himachal Pradesh, and resettlement colonies in Delhi.
Haryana
Madhuban · Karnal district
- Arpana Hospital
- Women's self-help groups in 108 villages
- Disability organisations in 49 villages
- Village health camps
Himachal Pradesh
Chamba · Gajnoi · Upper Bakrota, Dalhousie
- Medical & diagnostic centre
- Farmer producer organisations
- Village irrigation systems
- Women's and farmers' groups in 51 villages
Delhi
Molarbund · Vasant Vihar
- Education centres, Classes 1–12
- Balvatika early education
- University entrance coaching
- Vocational training
Institutional record
Accountable by design.
Accreditation, public-scheme empanelment and audited reporting are how Arpana earns trust from patients, partners and regulators alike.
- Accreditation
- NABH — National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers
- Empanelment
- Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY · ESIC · ECHS · CGHS · HECHS
- Recognition
- WHO Sasakawa Health Prize, 1993, for innovative rural health initiatives
- Registration
- Society since 1963 · Section 80G approved · FCRA No. 172310031
- Partners
- NABARD · Orbis · IDRF (USA) · Arpana Canada · Baij Nath Bhandari Public Charitable Trust
Be part of what comes next.
Foundations, CSR programmes, clinicians, volunteers and individual supporters each have a place in Arpana's work. Start with a conversation.