To generate funds, Padmashri Shankar Mahadevan will perform Sparsh Nite 2019, a Concert for a Cause at Shilpakala Vediak here on June 21.
Through this concert. which will be an annual affair, we hope to raise Rs 1 crore, Sparsh Hospice CEO Ram Mohan Rao told media here on Friday.
President of Rotary club of Banjara Hills Mallikarjun, Music Directors Raghu kunche and Shashi Preetham were also present on the occasion.
Telangana’s biggest, 70 bedded Sparsh Hospice facility for comfort and pain relief of terminal cancer patients is coming up in one acre land at Khajaguda, in Hyderabad at the cost of Rs13.13 crore.
The 60,000 square feet facility construction has already began and will be completed at the earliest as per the availability and pace at which the funds are raised. The hospice is coming up on the one acre land given by the Government of Telangana.
The proposed new facility spread across an area of 60,000 square feet area will comprise of 70 beds and will be constructed at an estimated cost of 13.13 crore. Of this, we could secure approximately Rs 7 crore from various individual philanthropists and corporate donors/foundations and there is a need for around Rs. 6 crore to complete the construction.
To run this 70 bedded facility and to provide total free service, we need Rs 35 to 40 lakh every month. So besides the cost of construction and equipment we are also planning to raise Rs 50 crore corpus fund and plan to run the facility with the interest earned from it, Rotarian Ram Mohan Rao said.
The donor passes can be booked on www.bookmyshow.com. They donor passes are available from Rs 750 onwards. All donations to Sparsh Hospice are exempted under section 80G of Income Tax. For more details, please call on phone: 7337537576 / 8686366666.
Mr Mallikarjun said noted playsinger S P Balasubrahmanyam performed at Sparsh Nite 2018.
