Pingalwara
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[edit] Introduction
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.
Currently Pingalwara has facilities for 400 "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.
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.
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Branches
Pingalwara has branches in Jalandhar, Sangrur, Chandigarh, Goindwal and Manawala.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Pingalwara Web site
- [http://www.pingalwara.ca/aboutpingalwara.cfm Pingalawara Canada Website}
