The Khalsa College Lyallpur Education Charitable Trust has a glorious past of serving the society especially in the field of education.
The seeds of the legacy were sown before partition-at Lyallpur (Pakistan) in the year 1908 with the establishment of organization’s first educational institute by the great sage, a kindred soul Sant Attar Singh Ji Mastuana.
After partition, the governing council of the Trust established its roots at Jalandhar during the year 1948 through ardent efforts of S. Swaran Singh Ji, Union Cabinet Minister and thereafter the Trust was headed by the renowned educationist & administrator S. Balbir Singh Ji, Member Parliament under whose able leadership and guidance the institutions run by the Trust have become a force to be reckoned with, in the field of education.
Presently under the leadership of Sardarni Balbir Kaur, the distinguished members of the Trust are successfully running a number of multi-disciplinary educational institutions with strength of nearly nine thousand students in the areas ranging from Arts & Literature to Management, IT & Engineering.
Sardar Balbir Singh Ji was born into the patriotic family which had played a vital role in the freedom struggle of India and thereafter enriched the democratic principles of Indian polity. While acquiring the higher education at Lyallpur Khalsa College he was profoundly active in the social spheres and was elected as member of state legislative assembly at a young age and was member of the Punjab cabinet from the year 1972 till 1977. During this period of service to the state of Punjab, he was elected as President of our governing council in the year 1973 and continued to guide and steer the group to its pinnacle till the year 2008. It was under his dynamic leadership that the various institutions of the trust gained prominence in the field of education. Apart from being an active parliamentarian as member Rajya Sabha (1992-1998) and member Lok Sabha (1999-2004), he was also devoted to the social causes of all strata of society and was patron of NRI Sabha and also Chairperson of Amateur Kabbadi Federation of India.
Sardar Balbir Singh Ji was born into the patriotic family which had played a vital role in the freedom struggle of India and thereafter enriched the democratic principles of Indian polity. While acquiring the higher education at Lyallpur Khalsa College he was profoundly active in the social spheres and was elected as member of state legislative assembly at a young age and was member of the Punjab cabinet from the year 1972 till 1977. During this period of service to the state of Punjab, he was elected as President of our governing council in the year 1973 and continued to guide and steer the group to its pinnacle till the year 2008. It was under his dynamic leadership that the various institutions of the trust gained prominence in the field of education. Apart from being an active parliamentarian as member Rajya Sabha (1992-1998) and member Lok Sabha (1999-2004), he was also devoted to the social causes of all strata of society and was patron of NRI Sabha and also Chairperson of Amateur Kabbadi Federation of India.