Mahatma N.D Grover Full Biography in English ( More than 200 words)

Mahatma N.D. Grover. 

(15th Nov. 1923-6th Feb. 2008)

Mahatma N.D. Grover was born on 15th Nov., 1923 at Isakhel in Pakistan. Having done M.Sc. (Chemistry) from Punjab University, he joined D.AV. College, Lahore as a lecturer in 1945. After the independence, he resumed his service in D.A.V. College, Ambala City and served there till 1960. He was the founder Principal of D.A.V. College, Abohar, Distt. Firozepur, Punjab. During his tenure, from 1960 to 1977, he established several educational institutions in its campus for which it is known as a Mini University. He served as the Principal in Dayanand Post Graduate College, Hissar (Haryana) from 1977 to 1982. He adopted the life membership of D.A.V. Society, the rarest contribution given to the Arya Samaj, in 1957. He also served as the Vice President of DAV CMC New Delhi. 

He was offered a herculean task to establish the DAVS in Eastern India in 1982. It was his grit, courage, inexhaustible energy and farsighted vision that now more than 200 DAV educational institutions are running in collaboration with various public and private undertaking along with the schools directly managed by DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi. 

Deeply influenced by Gandhiji, he led an exemplary austere and simple life with a sole motto to spread the light of education. He established schools and colleges in Punjab, Haryana, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. For his simplicity and doggedness he was lovingly called Jholewala Baba and reverently Karmyogi.

Apart from an inventive educationist, Mahatma Grover was also a social reformer, who constantly strived for upliftment of the poor and destitute. He always stretched his helping hands to needy ones. He showered his fatherly affection to the children who lost their parents in the super cyclone of Orissa by establishing an Vedic Bal Ashram orphanage. He established Sankalap Sarv Shiksha Centres for eradication of illiteracy among the poor. He organized annual Free Eye Camps for tribals and founded Swami Dayanand Netralaya in Khun Jharkhand where tribal people get free treatment and medicine.

This true Karmyogi foresaw the pivotal role which women can play in the 21st century and worked for their empowerment. He promoted female education especially in tribal zones. He worked on self dependence of women and initiated vocational training for their self-dependence. He was a great teacher with a deep sense of moral duty. He was an embodiment of selfless service, free from all narrowness, truthful in thought and fearless in action.

Mahatma Grover left for his heavenly abode on 6th February, 2008 at Chandigarh after a brief illness. It was the end of a memorable epoch that has bequeathed an undying legacy to the posterity to wonder whether such a selfless man has moved in flesh and blood on this earth.

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