About the Trust

Built from gratitude, shaped by discipline, and aimed at rural upliftment.

Mai Bhatti Educational Trust is rooted in the belief that education changes the trajectory not only of one student, but of entire families and villages. The Trust is being built as a permanent endowment supporting rural students at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana with a structure designed for longevity rather than short-term visibility.

Founder vision

Manraj Natt

As founder and lead donor, Manraj Natt brings together personal gratitude to his alma mater, a strong rural value system, and a long-term philanthropic mindset. The goal is not only to fund students, but to institutionalize opportunity.

The upgraded website should make his role visible, credible, and appropriately prominent without turning the Trust into a personality-led project.

Institutional purpose

Why an endowment model matters

Unlike one-time scholarships, a disciplined endowment creates predictability. It allows transparent annual support, formal eligibility criteria, auditable reporting, and measured expansion only when the corpus and governance are ready.

  • Permanent corpus mindset
  • Balanced student support model
  • Governance before scale