I don't know how and where to start the tribute on this all-round personality.
During partition and subsequent religious riots of 1947, an inflamed mob in Lahore, after attacking a residential area, turned to attacking the statue of Sir Ganga Ram, the great Hindu philanthropist

of Lahore. They first pelted the statue with stones, then smothered its face with coal tar & 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” forgetting that ironically they were trying to obliterate the memory of the very person who had founded the hospital where the person was to be taken for saving his life.

Sir Gangaram was a graduate of

Thomson Civil Engineering College — it is IIT Roorkee now, also planned Lahore’s sewerage system besides the tree-lined boulevards.
In 1873, he obtained on lease from Government 50,000 acres (200 km²) of barren, unirrigated land in Montgomery District,(Pakistan's Punjab) and

within three years converted that vast desert into smiling fields, irrigated by water lifted by a hydroelectric plant and running through a thousand miles of irrigation channels, all constructed at his own cost. This was the biggest private enterprise of the kind, unknown and

unthought-of in the country before. 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.
He designed and built

General Post Office, Lahore, Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, Mayo School of Arts (now the National College of Arts), Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore 1921, Lady Mclagan Girls High School, the chemistry department of the Government College University

Sir Ganga Ram High School (now Lahore College for Women), the Hailey College of Commerce (now Hailey College of Banking & Finance), Ravi Road House for the Disabled, the Ganga Ram Trust Building on "The Mall" and Lady Maynard Industrial School. He also constructed

Model Town and Gulberg town, once the best localities of Lahore, the powerhouse at Renala Khurd as well as the railway track between Pathankot and Amritsar.
The #Gangaram_Hospital in Delhi is named after him.

Ganga Ram Agrawal was born on 13th April 1851 Mangtanwala, Pakistan

His father was an SI and today the Family members of Sir Ganga Ram organise a host of programmes every April 13 to celebrate his birth anniversary.

https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/the-man-behind-the-ghoda-train/article4627115.ece

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