Welcome to KMCO Trust

KUDY MAHANTY CHIRENS' OPPORTUNITIES Trust (KMCO), a city based charitable trust was founded in memory of Kudy Mahanty, daughter of Rupa and Niroop Mahanty.

The Trust was formed in the year 2000, where Mrs. Rupa Mahanty is the Chairperson, Mr. Niroop Mahanty is the President and Mr. V Umesh Naidu is the Honorary Secretary of the Trust. Other trustees of the KMCO Trust's are Mr. Kenneth D’Cruz, Mrs. Anjale Kayship, Mr. Shubhankar Bhowmik and Mr. Arvind Choudhary.

The Trustees main motto is to serve the cause of needy and underprivileged children. Its objectives are therefore to help, develop and encourage the poor and underprivileged children belonging to weaker sections of the society by undertaking appropriate and adequate projects for their education, medical treatment, participation in sports, etc. KMCO believes that every child is ordained to have fun, therefore the Trust would regularly undertake activities to ensure that these children also have an opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of childhood.

OUR PARTNERS:

TSRDS: Tata Social & Rural Development Services

FPAI: Family Planning Association of India, Singhbhum Project

Sharda Kalyan Bhandar

YMCA, Jamshedpur

How we fund KMCO

Kudy's parents, Rupa and Niroop Mahanty started the trust with their personal funds. This forms the corpus of the trust.

Kudy's mother, Rupa Mahanty is a Reiki Grandmaster, and active in empowering people through Reiki. Since her work in Reiki is a Social Service she does not personally accept fees; rather she encourages her students to put the Reiki fees due from them directly into KMCO. This way by transferring her potential Reiki earnings to charity, the KMCO Trust continues to grow.

Hearing the noble work being done by the trust, several One-time and regular donors contribute to the trust.

KMCO's Donors

KMCO is happy and proud to join hands with YMCA to support and help underprivileged children under the project MADHUR MUSKAN.

Following names are some of the many who say "We share for our own satisfaction."

KMCO is grateful to its donors who encourage and enable the Mission of the Trust.

Mr. Sam J Antia
Mrs. K Bhabani
Mrs. Ela Bhatia
Mr. Karan Bhatia
Mr. Nikhil Bhatia
Mr. Pradeep Bhatia
Mr. Shubhankar Bhowmik
Mrs. Debjani Biswas
Mr. Niket Biswas
Ms. Nivedita Chakravorty
Mr. Arvind Choudhary
Mr. H S Grewal
Dr. Jamshed Irani
Mr. Bimlendra Jha
Mrs. Indira Kaczynska
Dr. Jayashree Kamath
Mr. Jeevan Kumar
Dr. T P Madhusudanan
Mr. Aroop Mahanty

Mrs. Reba Mukherjee
Mrs. Shuvra Mukherjee
Mrs. Taila Muller
Mrs. Ira Namazie
Mr. Shahroukh Namazie
Mr. T V Narendran
Mr. Ashok B Rao
Mrs. Sandhya Rao
Mr. Anand Sen
Dr. Jitendra Singh
Mr. Pradeep Srivastava
Ms. Samineh Tarique
Mrs. Anahita Taunk
Mrs. Ruby Thakur
Ms. Laxmi Venkatachalam
Mr. Adil Vesuvela
Mrs. Kamala Mahanty Willing

Montana Hydraulik (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Sreesubh Financial Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.

About MADHUR MUSKAN

Our recent partnership with YMCA Jamshedpur has been most encouraging. Project "MADHUR MUSKAN" has enabled us to alleviate the condition of the abandoned children who take refuge at the Tatanagar Railway Station. Thru this endeavour, 35 children are given hot midday meals, basic education, health checkups, and much needed counselling. The Trustees of KMCO are very appreciative of the spontaneous support they have received from donors towards this effort.

In keeping with the KMCO motto "to put a smile on every child's face" KMCO recently organized a zoo visit and Picnic in the Jubilee Park Jamshedpur. A first for the children, the day was joyous both for the children, as well as the organizers.

Kudy Mahanty Auditorium - Interior View

Rupa Mahanty & Niroop Mahanty signed a MOU with JEM Foundation for construction of Kudy Mahanty Auditorium in premises of Jusco School, Kadma, on Friday Feb 17, 2017.

This Auditorium will be of world class standards equipped with state of the art facilities and a seating capacity of 300, built in the loving memory of Kudy Mahanty, daughter of Rupa Mahanty & Niroop Mahanty and will enable hundreds of children in Jamshedpur many of who at present do not have the facility in their own schools to showcase their talent.

Kudy Mahanty Auditorium - Exterior View

With the thought of "Don't give to get rather give to inspire others to give", Mrs Rupa Mahanty spoke about how children in many schools display their flair/talent in open air, under the scorching sun or maybe just under a tin shed.

This Auditorium when ready will help transform their confidence level to maybe soaring new heights. Mrs Mahanty also said that out of the 3 parts of anyone's life which is Learning, Earning and Returning, the part of returning is the most important and this is what inspires her and her husband to do what they do best, giving back to the community they dwell in.

Kudy Mahanty Auditorium - Work in Progress

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Latest news & Press

KMCO Trust has donated its 18th hand tube well to Adibasi Boys Residential School - June 21, 2015

Today KMCO Trust has donated its 18th hand tube well to Adibasi Boys Residential School, Dhusra at a small ceremony held in Patamda. The occasion was in memory to mark the Birth Anniversary of Kudy Mahanty, daughter of Mrs Rupa Mahanty and Mr Niroop Mahanty. On 21st June every year, KMCO donates tube wells at far off locations in the twin districts across East and West Singhbhum where availability of drinking water is scarce.

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Tata Steel and KMCO donate tube wells - Feb 22, 2012

Tata Steel has joined hands with Kudy Mahanty Children's Opportunities (KMCO), a city-based NGO created in the memory of Kudy Mahanty, daughter of Rupa and Niroop Mahanty, and donated two tube wells at Bagbera School and Rapcha village on Wednesday. The tube wells were planted at Bagbera, located on the premises of the Abhuyadaya Public School at Rapch, a tribal dominated village in Boram block.

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Xmas cheer for rural kids at zoo - December 20, 2011

Not every child gets to celebrate Christmas. But this year, some underprivileged ones got angels in disguise to give them a good time.

A Jamshedpur-based charitable trust, Kudy Mahanty Chiren’s Opportunities, hosted an annual Christmas party for 70 children from Uday Creche at the Tata Steel Zoological Park on Tuesday.

Niroop Mahanty, a corporate executive and his management consultant wife Rupa, had founded this trust in 2000 in the memory of their daughter Kudy who had died in a tragic fire accident in March 1989.

“Chiren” was Kudy’s delightful way of pronouncing “children”.

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KMCO hands over classrooms to rural school - March 07, 2009

Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities (KMCO), a city based charitable trust, handed over a block of classrooms to a school in Patamda run by the Jharkhand Education Foundation (JEF), on Friday. The new school block will have 14 rooms for students of standard one to eight, for the 550 students of JEF School, who come from the surrounding areas of the Patamda town.

Trustees of KMCO, Rupa and Niroop Mahanty, PK Dotivala, Umesh Naidu and Anjali Kashyip graced the function. Satish Pillai, Chief, corporate sustainability services, Tata Steel, Sanjay, Head, urban services and Shilpasree Nag of Corporate Affairs and Communication, Tata Steel were also present on the occasion.

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KMCO installs hand pump - June 21, 2004

Trustees of Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities donated a hand pump to the school children of Gorgram village under Potka block on Monday. Niroop & Rupa Mahanty, parents of Kudy Mahanty donated this pump. This hand pump was installed with the help of TSRDS. KMCO will install a hand pump in the villages of the state every year on this day, birthday of Kudy. Rupa Mahanty said that KMCO will undertake many welfare activities for children of remote villages by initiating scholarships, organizing health camps, reimbursement of medical expenses to the needy and also organize outings for rural school children.

Other trustees, MP Dotiwala, Anjale Kayship, Umesh Naidu were also present on the occasion.

KMCO offers fun to lesser mortals - June 22, 2003

Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities (KMCO) a city based charitable trust inaugurated its activities by organizing its first outing, at the Jubilees Amusement Park, for the children of Cheshire Home & Shishu Niketan orphanage, here toady. Altogether 70 children from the Cheshire Home and Shishu Niketan were taken inside the park for outing.

The function began with chips and soft drinks served at the central cafeteria to the cheerful music of Mr Adinarayan. Thereafter the groups of children were taken through all the rides in the park. The atmosphere was such that the employee of the park also owned the slogan "Put a smile on each child's face" and got personally involved in ensuring that the children had a great time. The carnival like atmosphere infected all present on the occasion.

KMCO donates hand pump to school - June 22, 2003

Speaking as the Chief Guest at a simple function to hand over the pump on the school premises, Niroop Mahanty said the Trust would install such hand pumps in the surrounding villages of Jamshedpur annually for the next 10 years. Rupa Mahanty, chairperson, KMCO, also spoke on the occasion. Ms Shakti Sharma, Head - TSRDS, Tata Steel, P K Dotivala, Ms Anjale Kayship trustees of KMCO, Barha Majhi, headmaster of the school, local villagers & school children were present at the function.

KMCO organizes health camp for rural children - March 31, 2003

Kudy Mahanty Chirens' Opportunities along with Family Planning Association of India, Singhbhum Project conducted health camps in three villages of Jharkhand, Harisundarpur, Murgagattu and Salampather.

It was inaugurated by Rupa Mahanty, chairperson, KMCO on March 27 in the presence of Sudha Sagar, chairperson, FPAI and other trustees of KMCO.

Addressing on the occasion she said that it was the first of many activities that would be sponsored by KMCO, through FPAI for the benefit of under privileged children in Jharkand. This health camp would cover medical check ups for 150 to 200 primary school children including the providing of medicines. In the near future KMCO has committed to sponsor a football tournament, zoo visit and other such activities for village children. It would help to "put a smile on every child's face" the motto of KMCO trust.

Chairperson mentioned that she was delighted with the proposal from FPAI, Singhbhum Project and KMCO committee were glad to be able to offer opportunities for less privileged children and adolescent girls in nearby villages.