An Ambulance for Suri.

The fatal and brutal Sainthia train massacre on 19th July 2010 taught us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path and following our dreams. A baby was crying looking for her mother. Where is she? Who will tell me? A man’s body is hanging outside a window, but one of his hand is completely detached from his body and hanging on the next window. I have never ever witnessed such horrible scene even in film. While helping the casualties in sending them to hospital along with the local people and some employees from our Branch, an  idea sparked in my head and ignited a dream of hope for the future. Why can’t we start a charitable ambulance service by our State Bank of India Suri Branch itself, which will ply in and around Birbhum district? 

Yes, we feel that an ambulance service by us will certainly bring an unabashed delight and inspiration for man and mankind of Suri in particular and Birbhum  in the state of West Bengal. This ambulance will cater the need of the poorer section of the society completely free of cost and the maintenance cost will be borne by us. We, the CITIZENS of SBI Suri Branch are passionately committed with missionary zeal for this noble cause and feel proud to be a part of this venture. We are shaping this project as an UCFT (Core) project of SBI Citizens of Suri Branch. 

I am pouring my heart to all the few persons before whom I feel I can really open up. The droplets will surely make the ocean. Your spontaneous and whole-hearted participation in this social welfare activity will not only boost our morale but will also help us in reaching our destiny – An Ambulance for Suri.

Although this is an uphill task to garner fund for the Ambulance, we are confident to achieve this noble goal. Budget attuned at Rs.8.50 lakhs incl. maintenance cost.

Cost of operation to be included, i.e. driver’s salary and fuel (approximately an additional corpus of Rs.5.00 lakhs is needed in this regard.

A Savings Bank A/C has been opened for the purpose.

The account number is 31303596065.

We could have achieved a sum of Rs.5.78 lacs till date due to overwhelming response from every nooks and corners which includes the District Magistrate of Birbhum, many AGMs, CMs, different SBIOA units and SBISA units and individual Citizens of State Bank of India throughout the country.

Debangshu Sarkar, Member of UCFT (Core) 

SBI, SURI

Bengal Circle

CitizenSBI Blog is grateful to Citizen Shishir Bindu Nath for providing us this inspiring contribution.