Ganga Ram
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Rai Bahadur Sir Ganga Ram CIE, MVO |
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| Native name | Rai Bahadur Ganga Ram Agrawal |
| Born | 22 April 1851 Mangtanwala, Nankana Sahib District, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan) |
| Died | 10 July 1927 (age 76) London, England |
| Resting place | Portion of cremains scattered in Ganges while the rest are stored in the Samadhi of Sir Ganga Ram in Lahore, Pakistan |
| Monuments | Samadhi of Sir Ganga Ram near Ravi River, Taxali Gate, Lahore |
| Residence | Lahore, British India |
| Other names | Father of Modern Lahore |
| Alma mater | Thomason College of Civil Engineering |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Known for |
General Post Office Lahore Museum Aitchison College Mayo School of Arts Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Mayo Hospital Sir Ganga Ram High School Hailey College of Commerce The Mall, Lahore |
| Home town | Lahore |
| Relatives |
Ashwin Ram Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather |
Rai Bahadur The civil engineer and architect Sir Ganga Ram Agrawal CIE, MVO (22 April 1851 – 10 July 1927) was born in Mangtanwala, a village of Punjab Province in British India, in present-day Pakistan. He graduated from Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now IIT Roorkee) in 1873.
His father, Doulat Ram Agrawal was a junior Sub inspector at a Police Station in Mangtanwala. Later, he shifted to Amritsar and became a copy-writer of the Court. Here, Ganga Ram passed his matriculation examination from the Government High School and joined the Government College, Lahore in 1869. In 1871, he obtained a scholarship to the Thomason Civil Engineering College at Roorkee. He passed the final lower subbordinate examination with the gold medal in 1873. He was appointed Assistant Engineer and called to Delhi to help in the building of the Imperial Assemblage.
In 1873, after a brief Service in Punjab P.W.D devoted himself to practical farming. He obtained on lease from Government 50,000 acres (200 km²) of barren, unirrigated land in Montgomery District, 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.
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