The Global Scientist Forum (GSF) was established in the year 2000 at the Basement Hall of Manish Nursing Home, 4–5 Shastri Nagar, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India — constituted by eleven Founder Executive Members drawn from surgery, medicine, paediatrics, hydrogeology, geo science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, and computer engineering. The Forum was created to unite technocrats of different disciplines in a common platform for scientific exchange, research collaboration, and professional advocacy. Dr. Om Prakash Bhandari has served as Founder General Secretary of GSF continuously since its formation in 2000.
The Global Science Portal for Surgical, Procedural and Clinical Innovations (GSP-SPCI) is published under the academic auspices of the GSF. Dr. Om Prakash Bhandari has served as Founder General Secretary of GSF continuously since its formation in 2000.
The last decade of the 20th century was a period of serious societal turbulence for technocrats in India. Doctors and engineers faced unprecedented hostility and, in extreme cases, physical violence at the hands of individuals with socio-political agendas. A heart specialist was killed during his hospital rounds in Mumbai. A doctor was attacked with a sharp weapon for refusing to falsify a medico-legal certificate. An engineer in Udaipur was publicly beaten and stripped at Jagdish Chowk for carrying out scheduled electricity maintenance. These incidents were not isolated — they reflected a widespread erosion of public respect for trained professionals.
It was against this backdrop that a group of dedicated professionals from different disciplines — surgeons, engineers, geoscientists, and technocrats — determined to create a structured, organised forum where professionals of every scientific field could stand together, advocate for professional safety, share knowledge, and represent science and technology in collective voice. The result was the Global Scientist Forum.
The founding of the Global Scientist Forum was not the act of one person or two — it was a collective act of eleven professionals from different walks of science, medicine, and engineering who chose to stand together. A surgeon, a physician, a paediatrician, a hydrogeologist, civil engineers, an electrical engineer, an architect, a geo scientist, and a computer engineer — each came forward as an equal founding member, each bringing a different discipline to the common table, and each signing their name to a shared conviction: that the technocrats of India are stronger, safer, and more effective when united.
The Founder Executive Committee comprised eleven distinguished professionals who gathered at the Basement Hall of Manish Nursing Home, Chittorgarh to constitute the Forum formally. The inaugural meeting was chaired by Dr. Mukut Bihari Baxi (Physician) as Protem President. Shri Vijay Singh Kavdia (Geo Scientist) was elected the First President of the Forum. The body was formally constituted and named the Global Scientist Forum — a name that reflected from the outset its ambition to span every scientific and technical discipline, and to be recognised beyond the boundaries of any single region or institution.
Once formed, the Founder Executive Committee began meeting regularly — weekly or fortnightly on Sundays and public holidays — to discuss ongoing projects, share knowledge across disciplines, plan collective activities, and give effect to the Forum’s founding objectives. These meetings, held among colleagues of different professions in a spirit of mutual respect and shared purpose, were the living expression of what the GSF was meant to be.
In the background of this collective founding act was the initiative of two brothers — Dr. Om Prakash Bhandari (General Surgeon, Chittorgarh) and Shri Ashok Kumar Bhandari (Hydrogeologist — known across Rajasthan and beyond as ‘Jal Devata’) — who conceived the idea of a multidisciplinary forum and worked for approximately one year to reach out to professionals across medicine, engineering, geology, and technology. They built the network, sustained the vision through that year of outreach, and brought together the ten other founding members who shared their conviction. Their initiative provided the spark — but it was the collective response of all eleven founders that gave the Global Scientist Forum its life.
On Sunday, 20 October 2002, the Global Scientist Forum held its Second General Convention in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. By this time, the Forum had grown to approximately 220 members — a testament to the pace at which the vision of a unified multidisciplinary technocrats’ forum had resonated across the region.
◾ Special Guest — Second General Convention (2002): Dr. Bhagwati Bhandari — Principal, R.N.T. Medical College, Udaipur & Head of Department, Paediatrics — was the Special Guest at the Second General Convention, seated alongside Dr. V.K. Chaturvedi on the dais. Dr. Bhagwati Bhandari held a position of the highest academic distinction in Rajasthan’s medical education system as Principal of RNT Medical College — the apex government medical college of southern Rajasthan. His presence carried a particular personal significance for the GSF: he was the academic guide and teacher of Dr. Pushp Lal Kothari (Paediatrician, Jivan Jyoti Hospital, Chittorgarh) — one of the eleven Founder Executive Members of the GSF itself — bringing together the student and the teacher’s institution in the shared spirit of the Forum. Distinguished dignitaries from medicine, nuclear science, and academic life graced the dais of the Second General Convention, reflecting the multidisciplinary and cross-institutional character of the Global Scientist Forum.
In the years 2008–2010, the GSF focused on consolidating its identity and expanding its membership network. A major initiative was the formation of the Global Heart Foundation — a subsidiary body addressing the growing problem of coronary heart disease through research, education, and community outreach. The Foundation was registered at Manish Nursing Home Campus, 4-5 Shastri Nagar, Chittorgarh – 312001 — the same campus where the GSF had been founded in 2000.
To support cardiac patients, the GSF introduced non-invasive External Counter Pulsation (ECP) Therapy. The Foundation's ECP machines were supplied by Cardiopulse Heart Care, Delhi. The first machine was acquired on instalment but proved troublesome in operation; following this experience, the Foundation purchased a NICORE II machine outright by full payment, funded through a loan of approximately Rs. 30 lakh arranged after deposition of the required margin money. This therapy was designed to enhance blood flow and improve cardiac function without invasive procedures.
The GSF and Global Heart Foundation organised free rural medical camps — Niःshulk Chikitsa Shivir (निःशुल्क चिकित्सा शिविर) — providing free health check-ups and medical treatment to underserved rural communities across the Chittorgarh region. One such camp was held on 11 April 2010, with doctors, nurses, and volunteers attending to long queues of rural patients — men, women, and children from surrounding villages coming for free consultations, medicines, and health education.
First President: Shri V.S. Kavdia
BE Civil (MNIT) · MTech (IIT Bombay)
Chief Engineer, Govt. of Rajasthan
Consultant Surgeon, Chittorgarh
Professor of General Surgery, PIMS, Udaipur
Founding Editor-in-Chief, GSP-SPCI
Managed GSF & GHF finances
with equal devotion
Technical backbone of the organisation
Free cardiac check-up camps, subsidised ECP therapy at ₹2,000 per session (solely to service monthly EMI + interest on ₹73L Indian Bank loan), health awareness across 10 districts, tribal outreach — all self-funded by the founding committee with no government grant, no institutional budget, no external donor.
GSF was founded to protect doctors, engineers and scientists from physical assault and public humiliation — documented incidents of violence against professionals in Rajasthan drove the formation of a unified voice for technocrats across all disciplines. The forum united surgeons, engineers, geoscientists and computer engineers in collective advocacy for professional safety and dignity.
Photographs: Global Heart Foundation events, 2008–2009, Chittorgarh — World Heart Day (28 September 2008), ECP Centre-2 Inauguration (28 December 2008), and Free Heart Check-up Camp (4 January 2009). Organised under the aegis of the Global Heart Foundation, a subsidiary of the Global Scientist Forum. Conducted at and around Manish Nursing Home Campus, 4-5 Shastri Nagar, Chittorgarh – 312001.
To disseminate research findings and promote scientific discourse, the GSF established its own publication: Global Scientist Forum News. This newspaper was registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) — a formal statutory registration under the Press and Registration of Books Act, Government of India — confirming its status as a legitimate recognised press organ. It was circulated by postal mail to all members of GSF — more than 360 members across India — at the personal expense of the founding committee. It covered advancements in science and technology, reported on GSF and GHF field activities, and advocated for professional safety, legal protection, and societal respect for doctors, engineers and technocrats across all disciplines.
The ECP machines acquired at personal expense suffered repeated technical breakdowns and could not be maintained reliably. The managing committee was ultimately compelled to cease ECP therapy services and close the ECP centres. The two ScottCare ECP machines had cost ₹73,00,000 (Seventy-Three Lakhs), financed by a loan from Indian Bank. The ₹2,000 per session charged to patients was collected solely to service the monthly instalment and interest on this loan — it was never income for GHF. When collections proved insufficient to clear the full outstanding principal, Dr. O.P. Bhandari sold his residential Plot No. 131, Shastri Nagar, Chittorgarh to repay Indian Bank in full. The financial burden of the machines was thus borne entirely and personally by the founding committee — with no reimbursement, no institutional support, and no recognition at the time.
The GSF has never sought external funding. Its sole revenue source has been a nominal membership fee of ₹100 per member per year — a figure deliberately kept affordable but insufficient to sustain the Forum's ambitions. As a result, the GSF currently faces financial constraints that have limited the scale of its organised activities.
Despite these challenges, the founding spirit of the GSF — the belief that technocrats across all disciplines are stronger, safer, and more effective when united — remains intact. The launch of the Global Science Portal for Surgical, Procedural and Clinical Innovations (GSP-SPCI) in 2026 represents a new chapter in the GSF's mission, extending its reach into the international academic publishing community and providing a permanent, open-access platform for the kind of innovation that the Forum was built to celebrate.
★ Colleague and fellow Geo Scientist of Shri Ashok Kumar Bhandari for over two decades · Full biography to be published on receipt
Excellence Work Award — Government of Rajasthan · Conferred by the District Collector, Chittorgarh, in recognition of outstanding civil-works performance.