In the year 1949, the great humanitarian Baba Amte being moved to the core by the physical trauma and social stigma of leprosy afflicted people, set up the Maharogi Sewa Samiti on a piece of 50 acres of uninhabited, barren and rocky land in Warora, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra. The initially the activities were limited to the medical treatment, training and rehabilitation of the leprosy stricken. However, due to the unique nature of services rendered, over the years, it grew to such heights as to embrace within its ambit a wide spectrum of downtrodden and marginalized people as the physically challenged, the deaf-mute, the blind, orphans, tribal people etc. Muralidhar Devidas Amte was born at Hinganghat in Central India, on the 26th of December 1914. As the eldest son of a wealthy Brahmin landowner, Muralidhar was protected from any material deprivation. His enormous energy was happily absorbed in an idyllic childhood with long hours of play, pranks and wrestling with other boys.