In 1998 Dr. Naurang
Singh Mangat felt there
is a need to help
orphans and other needy
kids who have no
property, no income and
no support from any
source. Since then for
many years he personally
sponsored the education
of about 15 needy
students of Senior
Secondary School and
Primary School in
village Jatana, District
Ludhiana, Punjab
(India). The support
included their fees,
books, stationary,
clothing, etc.
In August 2005, with the
cooperation of other
persons, he registered a
charitable,
non-profitable and
non-political public
trust under the name
“Guru Amar Das Apahaj
Ashram" to take care of
the needy among the
poorest of the poor
irrespective of cast,
creed, and religion.
Dr. Mangat, in the field
of Statistics, had
worked for about twenty
years in the department
of Plant Breeding at
Punjab Agricultural
University, Ludhiana,
India. He had also
worked as a Visiting
Scientist (Statistics)
with Dr. Derrick Tracy
in the department of
Mathematics and
Statistics at University
of Windsor, Canada and
as a Senior Statistician
at Morrison Scientific
Inc., a research
company, in Calgary,
Canada. He published
about 60 research papers
in the leading journals
of the world and is a
coauthor of textbook
"Elements of Survey
Sampling" which is used
in most universities of
the world.
