Pritam Pal

Justice Pritam Pal was born on 3rd June, 1947. After putting 14 years of practice in law, he joined Haryana Superior Judicial Service and remained District and Sessions Judge of various districts. In the year 2002, he was posted as Registrar General and then elevated as permanent Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. On his superannuation, he was appointed as President, State Consumer Redressal Commission, UT, Chandigarh. Thereafter, he was appointed Lokayukta, Haryana.

He recommended action in many high-profile matters involving Ministers, MLAs, builders, promoters and senior officers for committing acts of corruption. In his reports to the Governor, for eradication of corruption, he recommended and suggested introducing compulsory moral education at the school level. He also headed the Monitoring Committee of the National Green Tribunal constituted for the States of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and UT, Chandigarh. Presently, he is Vice-President of DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi.

He is running Aarshvidya Gurukul at Yagya Shala situated on Ladwa-Indri Road, Kurukshetra, with the main objective of imparting value and character-based education for poor children, affiliated with Haryana Shiksha Board. He has been regularly holding character-building camps for the last ten years along with other social activities, including organizing free medical camps, blood donation camps and mass marriages of poor girls.

He has written three books: Power of Thought in English, Vichar Shakti Ka Chamatkar in Hindi, and Mukti Prapti Ki Vidhi in Sanskrit. Presently, he has undertaken to create awareness about environmental protection and social justice in the State of Haryana. He firmly believes that air, water and land are the three main components of nature, which have been described in our scriptures, i.e., in Vedas and Gurubani: water as father (Pita), air as guru (Teacher), and land as mother (Mata). His slogan “Development is must but environment and health is first” epitomizes the values by which we all should live. Provided by Wikipedia