Bhagat Puran Singh, Founder Pingalwara, Amritsar

Bhagat Puran Singh with an inmate of Pingalwara. Amritsar

Pingalwara is a house for destitutes in Amritsar in northern Indian state of Punjab. It is housed in a three storey building near the main Amritsar bus stand on the National Highway no. 1, also known as G.T. or Grand Trunk Road. Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ... Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (Meaning: Land of five Rivers) (also Panjab, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Shahmukhi: پنجاب) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ... A view of Grand Trunk Road - a picture from Smithsonian Institute The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is the Indian Subcontinents first, largest and oldest major road, linking Sonargaon in Bengal (now in Narayanganj, Bangladesh) with Kabul in Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass. ...

Currently Pingalwara has facilities for 250 "patients" who are fed, housed and looked after thanks to generous support of various philanthropists. The unclaimed bodies of the deceased are donated to Government Medical College, Amritsar for research and teaching purposes. Medical College Amritsar is oldest Medical college in Punjab state. ...

Pingalwara is officially registered as All India Pingalwara Charitable Society. Since death of Bhagat Puran Singh in 1992, it is headed by Mrs Inderjit Kaur who is a physician by training and also runs a private maternity clinic in Amritsar. snoyes 07:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC) Category: Possible copyright violations ... Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ...

Pingalwar also operates a free drug dispensary, a blood bank, a shelter for mentally retarded children and a free primary school in a slum area in Amritsar city. Poor and abandoned children raised by Pingalwara are helped re-establish themselves in society at completion of their school education. An ambulance and a basic operation room is availlable for trauma care of accident victims.

History

Pingalwara is believed to have been founded informally in year 1924 by a then 19 year old Ramji Das who later became famous as Bhagat Puran Singh. snoyes 07:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC) Category: Possible copyright violations ...

Pingalwara has branches in Jalandhar, Sangrur, Chandigarh, Goindwal and Manawala. Jalandhar (Punjabi: ) is an ancient city in the state of Punjab, India. ... Location of Chandigarh Chandigarh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ), also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ...

Web site: http://www.pingalwaraonline.org

Canadian Website: http://www.pingalwara.ca/aboutpingalwara.cfm