An open-air school set up by the Namdhari sect of Sikhism led by spiritual head Thakur Dalip Singh in a street of Jalandhar city in Punjab, which is acclaimed for providing free quality education to slum children, is now providing them coaching .
Ruchi Ram Sahni was a social reformer and scientist
Despite being a prominent social reformer, scientist, teacher, politician, public intellectual and leading educationist of colonial Punjab, Ruchi Ram Sahni has not been given his due place in the social and academic circles of India and Pakistan. He had worked with renowned physicists Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr but his scientific and educational legacy was largely forgotten till the start of the 21
st Century.
th anniversary in 2013 and digitised all available volumes of his manuscript:
History of My Own Times, and the government of India honoured his legacy with a postal stamp issued during the commemorative event.