Ganga Ram was born on April 13, 1851 at Mangatwala 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 making 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 time. He was against dowry and child marriage and advocated widow re-marriage. He established institutions for vocational education and education of adults. Much of his income was put in a charitable trust named after him. 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 stamp depicts a portrait of Ganga Ram and shows a view of Ganga Ram Hospital building in New Delhi.
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