Ahuja Medical Center

Monte Ahuja, like most of the students who came in the 1950s and 1960s, brought barely enough money from India to buy food for a day. Monte founded Transtar Industries and built it into the most successful after-market transmission parts distributor in the world. He donated $30 million to University Hospital in Cleveland for the Ahuja Medical Center in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood. The dedication ceremony of the first phase of this 53-acre health care campus on November 13, 2010 included ribbon cutting featuring Monte Ahuja, his wife Usha, daughters Ritu and Manisha, and son-in-law Neil Sethix. Monte and UshaAhuja’s donation was the largest single donation in the 140-year history of that university. In June 2011, Ahuja donated $10 million to CSU to fund scholarships and an endowed professorship in business. The CSU’s College of Business was renamed the Monte AhujaCollege of Business. In January 2013, Ahuja, donated $ 3.5 million to Ohio State University to create the Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair in the College of Engineering.xi