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Shri Jagdish Chand Gupta
2 July 1950 – 16 April 2024
Senior Rehabilitation Consultant · Founder of Sachetan
Gupta ji was an expert in disability work.
He started “Sachetan”. It helps us feel calm and aware.
He guided Manovikas and MIHE.
Every year on 2 July we remember him at “Anubhuti Sanchay”.
Our students need not only the skills of doing — they also need the peace of being.— J. C. Gupta’s belief, as remembered at Anubhuti Sanchay 2026
A life of service
Shri Jagdish Chand Gupta was a distinguished rehabilitation specialist. At the National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped (now AYJNISHD), Mumbai, and later at the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), he helped set the training and certification standards through which rehabilitation professionals across India are prepared — touching thousands of professionals and, through them, many lakhs of persons with disabilities.
He served Manovikas as Senior Rehabilitation Consultant, mentor and Advisor to the Manovikas Institute for Higher Education.
He passed away on 16 April 2024.
Their place in the Manovikas family
Gupta ji’s greatest gift to Manovikas came from his heart. He believed that students with intellectual disabilities need not only the skills of doing, but the peace of being — and from that belief Sachetan was born.
Sachetan began on 1 April 2021: a daily 35-minute online session of prayer, meditation, a positive thought and gratitude. By June 2024 it had run more than 800 episodes for over 3,350 students, teachers, parents, staff and volunteers. A study by Manovikas found clear gains in participants’ calmness, focus and relationships.
The work that continues in their name
Anubhuti Sanchay (अनुभूति संचय) — 2 July
Since 2024 the Manovikas family gathers every year on Gupta ji’s birthday for “Anubhuti Sanchay” — a collecting of inner experiences. Students, teachers and families share their moments of peace, gratitude and awareness as a tribute to him. As he taught: money shared grows less; experience shared grows more.
Sachetan — daily mindfulness
The programme he founded continues every morning at 10 a.m., and its archive of series — Vivekachudamani, Shiv Puran, Sundarkand, Panchatantra, Atmabodh and more — is open to all at sachetan.org.
Anubhuti Sanchay 2027
2 July 2027
Join the Sachetan sessions every morning, and the remembrance on 2 July.
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