Lala Hansraj Gupta was an Indian educationist, social worker and philanthropist. He was awarded

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for his services to society. He served as seventh Mayor of Delhi.Delhi’s first mayor, Lala Hansraj Gupta...

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, 7 April 2009. Gupta was a founding member of the Child Education Society in 1944. Bal Bharati Public School is one of the private institutions owned by the Child Education Society. He died on 3 July 1985.

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Bal Bharati Public School, Child Education Society
1975 deaths Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in public affairs 20th-century Indian educational theorists Indian philanthropists Mayors of Delhi Year of birth missing Delhi politicians Not very descriptive {{India-mayor-stub