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Rajbir Singh, a phsiycal education teacher and an environmentalist, was born on 4th November 1951 at Amritsar in the house of Captain Jarnail Singh and Bibi Sarabjit Kaur. He had his school education at famous Sant Singh Sukha Singh School Amritsar and then completed his education with CPed and DPed Degrees. He remained a Physical education teacher from 1976 to 2009. He proved himself a distinguished teacher in this regard. However, when he came into contact with All India Pingalwara Charitable Society (Regd.) after he was highly influenced by humanitarian activities of Bhagat Puran Singh, he dedicated his life in the service of humanity. He is honorary executive member of Pingalwara Society for last about 15 years. Since his retirement as a teacher from government service he has been deeply involved in various activities of Pingalwara. His past experience as Physical training teacher is helpful in streamlining various sports activities of Pingalwara schools. His main passion is environment and he spends endless hours in Pingalwara Bhagat Puran Singh Nursery and Bhagat Puran Singh Natural Farm and Research centre Dheerekot (near Jandiala Guru). He has also been selected among 100 best organic/Natural Farm experts in India by Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Ministry of Agriculture Government of India. Making people aware about the environmental pollution and hazards of chemical farming is his main motto. For that he participates in seminars arranged in schools, colleges, different clubs and by different NGO’s. He is often invited on TV channels for talks and discussion. Under his supervision about one lakh saplings are grown in Nursery which are distributed to various organization free of cost. The campaign of plantation of saplings is going on unabated for the last about ten years and about 960 schools have been covered under this programme so far. Dheerekot Farm is acting as beacon light for the farmers and agricultural societies who visit this farm from India and abroad. His email is pingalwara57@gmail.com.