The Nanjappa Trust is an organisation dedicated to providing world-class patient care and education to the people of India. The trust has a firmly held belief that this is only possible with adequate support from comprehensive research and honest community service. The trust responds to people’s health care and educational needs by investing in solutions that improve the quality of hospitals and provide opportunities to students across the country, to pursue their higher studies in the field of medicine and patient care.

The Nanjappa Trust established the first multi-speciality and super-speciality hospitals in the Malnad region.

The Nanjappa Trust has also established the Nanjappa Education Academy , to realise its goals for education in India.

Sri D.G. Nanjappa is the founder of the Nanjappa Trust. Sri D. G. Benakappa and Dr B. Dhanyakumar are the visionaries who continue to fuel its success, today. It is their determination and relentless work which has illustrated that this task, while daunting, is certainly worth taking up and can be tackled with sustained, concentrated efforts.