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Bhai Mahinder Singh is one of the most familiar names among the Sikhs of the world as he has won name and fame in the field of sewa through an organization named Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha, which has its Head Office in Birmingham, U.K. He was born on 31st March 1939 in Kenya (East Africa). He had his early education in Nairobi and proved to be an excellent student. For higher studies, he went to U.K. and got his degree as Civil and Structural Engineer. He worked on various projects in U.K., Africa and India. In addition to his professional activities, he was mainly dedicated to work for the Sikh community. He assisted the Sikh community in different parts of Africa in the construction of Gurdwaras.In 1989, he associated himself with Bhai Sahib Bhai Naurang Singh Ji and devoted his life to full time service of the community. Bhai Naurang Singh Ji was the leader of the Jatha which was further associated with various projects undertaken by Sant Baba Puran Singh Ji. Bhai Mahinder Singh, while working in Africa used to visit Baba Puran Singh both in Kenya and then in England as dedicated member of Babaji’s sangat. When Bhai Naurang Singh Ji passed away in 1985, Bhai Mahinder Singh took keen interest in completing the ongoing project of U.K. sangat of re-gliding Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar. Since then Bhai Sahib has been actively working for all the projects undertaken by the organization and after Sant Baba Puran Singh, the founder of the organization, he is now the mukh sewadar of the organization. He has played a highly significant role in strengthening interfaith relationship with all the religions. Bhai Sahib has received many honours and awards. Now, the organization being a registered charity has opened many Gurdwaras, Educational institutions and service projects at different places in the world. The funds for the charity work are raised from voluntary donation. The services provided are all free. One of the services is baptizing the Sikhs in Gurdwaras and putting them on projects relating to service of humanity irrespective of casts, creeds and the religion of the people. Bhai Sahib is a selfless religious visionary leader propagating peace, serving society through spiritual inspiration, infrastructure creation, heritage conservation, interfaith engagement and promoting values-led education. As chairperson of GNNSJ, one of the UK’s largest Sikh faith registered charities, he is engaged in an astounding range of civic and spiritual initiatives. He is respected as a bridgebuilder within communities in the local and global, secular and spiritual, intra and interfaith contexts. In 2013, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI bestowed a Papal Knighthood of ‘Saint Gregory the Great’ upon Bhai Sahib for his interfaith work in the UK and around the world. In 2014, he was awarded the highly coveted Guru Nanak Interfaith Peace prize by Hofstra University, New York. In May 2015 Bhai Sahib was honoured with OBE from the Prince of Wales is recognition of his unstinting and inexorable work over 40 years to promote peace and co-existence by bringing people of different faiths together to contribute to the common good of humanity.