India needs its well-established individuals/people to take a lead in developing welfare activities rather than depending all the time on government services, Larsen & Toubro Group Chairman A M Naik said on Sunday.

Naik, a Padma Vibhushan awardee, has set up a soon-to-be-inaugurated 100-bed cancer hospital at an eight-acre campus ' AM Naik Healthcare Complex' in Gujarat. It aims to cater to the people of the region and India's Vice President of M Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone of 500-bed Nirali Multi-speciality hospital in the same complex recently.

"In a large country like India, we cannot depend on the government for all assistance. It is our individual responsibility to do whatever we can to help those less fortunate than ourselves," Naik told , after starting work through his own trust on multi-speciality hospital at Navasari in rural south Gujarat. An efficient and affordable healthcare system can "reduce the financial burden on the poor, improve worker productivity, reduce absenteeism in schools, and ultimately, have a strong positive correlation with growth", Naidu said.

He said this while laying the foundation stone on March 5 and had suggested to the governments to partner.

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