Ganga Ram was born on April 13, 1851 at Mangtanwala now in Pakistan. After a brilliant academic career he entered service as an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works  Department,  Punjab.

The planning and processes introduced by him for the construction of municipal services, structure and institutions were the first of its kind in India and became a model for generations to come.

The most significant contribution of Ganga Ram was in the field of agriculture. To him, agriculture  was  the foundation of the development of all planning and prosperity in India. His efforts, inspiration and engineering skill largely contributed to make dry tracts of Punjab smile and become green which has made that state the granary of India with the highest per capita income.

Ganga Ram was a great social reformer much ahead of his times. He was against dowry  and  child  marriage  and advocated widow  re-marriage. He  established institutions for vocational education and education of the adults. Almost his entire earnings were put in a charitable trust named after him and were utilised to achieve a welfare society.

To perpetuate his memory the Ganga Ram Trust, despite having been deprived of almost its entire reserve of funds and property due to partition of the country, is running an up-to-date hospital in New Delhi.

Ganga Ram passed away on July 10, 1927 in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture.

The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department feels privileged to bring out a commemorative postage stamp in honour of  this great son of India.

Source : Information Folder issued by Indian Posts & Telegraph Department, Government of India