Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti   (BMVSS)

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS)

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS)

Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is the world`s largest organisation rehabilitating over 1.78 million amputees and polio patients by fitting / providing artificial limbs (Jaipur Foot variety), calipers, and other aids and appliances, mostly in India and also in 27 countries across the world. It has its headquarters at Jaipur, India. It is a pan-Indian organisation having 23 branches, spanning Srinagar to Chennai and Ahmedabad to Guwahati. Metropolitan cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Varanasi, Patna, etc also have limb fitment centres of BMVSS. Apart from providing the widest possible range of services for the disabled, BMVSS is also focused on research and development, and tries to combine service with science.

Company details

13A, Gurunanak Path Main Malviya Nagar , Jaipur , Rajasthan 302017 India
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Business Type:
Original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
Industry Type:
Agriculture - Agriculture Monitoring and Testing
Market Focus:
Nationally (across the country)

BMVSS has forged agreements with Stanford University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA; the Indian Space Research Organisation; and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur, Manipal University Jaipur, for research and development, Professors of other IITs, namely Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai, too are helping BMVSS. Further, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur; National Institute of Technology, Delhi; and companies such as Jain Irrigation, Pinnacle Industries, Polymedicure and Universal Medicap have agreements with BMVSS for research. Other corporates also support BMVSS. Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd (Dow India), a leading company in polymers, is helping BMVSS in improving the components of its aids and appliances to further enhance the functionality and longevity of the polyurethane (PU) foot, which is likely to rehabilitate hundreds of thousands of amputees the world over.

The Stanford-BMVSS Jaipur Knee, which is the product of research due to a formal memorandum of understanding between BMVSS and Stanford University, was hailed by Time magazine USA(November 23, 2009 issue) as one of the world's 50 best inventions in 2009.

BMVSS has held more than 60, on-the-spot, limb fitment camps in 27 countries across the world, the details of which are given under the Foreign camps section.

Vision
The vision of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is to ensure the physical, economic and social rehabilitation of the disabled, to enable them to regain their mobility and dignity and become self-respecting and productive members of society, ie, in short, restoring the glory of life.

Mission
The mission of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is to:
Provide prosthetics or artificial limbs, calipers and other physical aids and appliances, free of charge, to as many disabled people as possible through its centres, outreach programmes and rehabilitation camps, both in India and abroad.

Provide economic support for livelihood (on selective basis) as an anti-alleviation programme.

Undertake in-house or collaborative research for the improved quality and lower cost of aids and appliances.

The vision of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS)is an organisation with a difference. Built on a sensitive, humane and patient-first social philosophy and value system, the foremost concern of BMVSS is that the dignity and self-respect of patients must be maintained or enhanced at all costs.

Free assistance: BMVSS provides artificial limbs / calipers, physical aids and appliances, and assistance totally free of cost because most of its patients live below the poverty line; to ask them to pay would be inhumane and unethical. Rich patients generally give donations.

Help, not charity: While the assistance is given free, BMVSS emphasises that the services are not charity but help to brothers and sisters, so that the self-respect of patients is preserved.

Equality: BMVSS assistance is offered without discrimination on the grounds of gender, caste, creed, religion or geography.

Respect: Patients are treated humanely and with respect; personal attention is paid to them.

Empowerment: Patients are empowered by providing them with limbs, assistance, etc, which give them mobility and also restores their economic capabilities. Further, on a selective basis, BMVSS also provides vocational training to young amputees and assistance for self-employment. All these provide dignity as well.

Accessibility: BMVSS holds outreach programmes and rehabilitation camps to reach out to handicapped people living in remote areas. Besides this, any disabled from any part of India or elsewhere can access the services of BMVSS.