Leadership

Late Dr. Shamanuru Shivashankarappa founded SS Care Trust and served as its Chairman. A politician, educationist, industrialist and philanthropist, he was a Member of Parliament once, a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly five times and a state minister, a career the Trust describes as a long commitment to the rights, welfare and empowerment of ordinary people. As Chairman he brought that breadth of experience to bear on the Trust's direction, making sure its programs addressed pressing social needs.

As Honorary Secretary of the Bapuji Educational Association, one of central Karnataka's best-known educational organisations, he helped establish institutions in engineering, medicine, dental sciences, nursing, management, pharmacy and Ayurvedic medicine. His philanthropy ran alongside: he established the SS Janakalyana Trust to provide scholarships for academically bright but economically underprivileged students, and SS Care Trust extends that same concern into healthcare.

Shri S.S. Mallikarjun is the Managing Trustee of SS Care Trust and Chairman of Bapuji Hospital and the SS Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, the two hospitals through which most of the Trust's treatment is delivered. He guides the Trust's strategy and is credited within it with keeping its initiatives impactful and sustainable. He has also established educational institutions and championed programs that widen access to learning.

He represents Davangere North in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and, at the time the Trust's 2019–2024 impact book was printed, served as the state's Minister for Mines and Geology and for Horticulture. Alongside public life he is an industrialist whose enterprises provide employment across central Karnataka. As Managing Trustee he is described as leading by example, drawing others into the Trust's work.

Dr. Prabha Mallikarjun is a Life Trustee of SS Care Trust and closely involved in its day-to-day work. She signs the closing 'Covenant of Trust & Gratitude' in the Trust's 2019–2024 impact book, in which she reflects that the Trust's journey since 2019 has made remarkable strides in health and education and that the work of sharing and caring has transformed those involved.

In that note she thanks the affiliate institutions whose services and community engagement make the programs possible, and the doctors, volunteers and support staff whose shared commitment she describes as the Trust's defining character. She also addresses the Trust's partners, government and non-government leaders and departmental staff in Kannada, thanking them for their support and looking forward to their continued help.