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I believe many of us heard about ‘Ganga Ram Hospital’ in Lahore Pakistan. I would like to know why the hospital is named after ‘Ganga Ram’? Who was He? Any info???
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
A Hindu philanthropist :)
This should be changed to paja's hospital clinic immediately.
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
This should be changed to paja's hospital clinic immediately.
Phajja is variant of which name? I mean what is the real name of Phajja?
Re: Who Was ‘Ganga Ram’?
Sir Ganga Ram (1851-1927) was a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his times, who established the Renala Hydral Power Station in Renala Khurd in Sahiwal district in 1925.
In 1873, after a brief Service in Punjab P.W.D., Sir Ganga Ram devoted himself to practical farming. From the government, he obtained on lease, 50,000 acres (200 km²) of barren, unirrigated land in Montgomery [now called Sahiwal] district, and within three years converted that vast desert into smiling fields. These were irrigated by a water lift from a hydroelectric plant running through a thousand miles of irrigation channels, all constructed at his own cost. It was the biggest private enterprise of the kind, unknown and unthought-of in the country before. Through this enterprise, Sir Ganga Ram earned millions most of which he gave to charity.
**In the words of Sir Malcolm Hailey, the Governor of Punjab, “he won like a hero and gave like a Saint”. He was a great engineer and a great philanthropist.
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He designed and built General Post Office, Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, Mayo School of Arts (now the NCA), Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan Girls High School, the chemistry department of the Government College University, the Albert Victor wing of Mayo Hospital, the Hailey College of Commerce, Ravi Road House for the Disabled, the Ganga Ram Trust Building on The Mall and Lady Maynard Industrial School. He also constructed Model Town, once the best locality of Lahore, the powerhouse at Renala Khurd as well as the railway track between Pathankot and Amritsar.
**He built Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan School and Renala Khurd Power House with his own money.
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He was a promising agriculturist, too. He purchased thousands acres of barren land in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) on lease and by using engineering skills and modern irrigation methods, turned the arid lands into fertile fields. He retired in 1903. He died in London on July 10, 1927. His body was cremated and his ashes were brought back home. A portion of the ashes were consigned to Ganga River and the rest buried in Lahore on the bank of the Ravi.
A statue of Sir Ganga Ram once stood on Mall Road in Lahore. Saadat Hasan Manto, the famous Urdu writer, in one of his stories on the frenzy of religious riots of 1947 writes that an inflamed mob in Lahore, after attacking a Hindu residential area, ‘turned to attacking the statue of Sir Ganga Ram, the Hindu philanthropist.
They first pelted the statue with stones; then smothered its face with coal tar. Then a man made a garland of old shoes climbed up to put it round the neck of the statue.
The police arrived and opened fire. Among the injured was the fellow with the garland of old shoes. As he fell, the mob shouted: “Let us rush him to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital”. 
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Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Ganga Ram, gulab Devi and others.
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Ganga Ram, gulab Devi and others.
who was Glab Devi?
Re: Who Was ‘Ganga Ram’?
Gulab Devi Chest Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gulab Devi Chest Hospital is a 1,500 bedded semi-private tertiary care chest hospital located in Ferozepur Road, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The hospital was established in 1934 by the late Lala Lajpat Rai in the memory of his mother, Gulab Devi, who died due to tuberculosis in 1927. The cardiac wing began functioning in 1984 and is equipped with an angiography laboratory.
The hospital is attached with Fatima Jinnah Medical College as teaching hospital and is also affiliated with College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. It is also attached with Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and Ameer-ud-Din Medical College, both of which are affiliated with University of Health Sciences, Lahore.
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Gulab Devi naam mein ne pehlay nahi suna haan, FJMC suna hy.
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Gulab Devi naam mein ne pehlay nahi suna haan, FJMC suna hy.
There are many hospitals / colleges in the name of Hindu and even British people who lived in this part of the world.
Re: Who Was ‘Ganga Ram’?
btw post #5 is superb :k:
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Gulab Devi naam mein ne pehlay nahi suna haan, FJMC suna hy.
Gulab Devi is a chest hospital on Ferozpur Road.
Re: Who Was ‘Ganga Ram’?
‘like’ ke button ki bhi koi history hai 
Re: Who Was 'Ganga Ram'?
Oh acha oky hehehehe :@: