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General Gurnam Singh Public School is a CBSE-affiliated co-educational school founded in 1968 and located on the outskirts of Sangrur, Punjab. The English language is used during classes. The school is run along Public School lines and is managed by S. B. Sir General Gurnam Singh Educational Trust. Its chairman and its secretary are Capt. Amarinder Singh (former CM, Punjab) and S. Karanvir Singh Sibia.
Current director S.B. General Gurnam Singh C.I.E., in his will, left his house and grounds to the community for educational, technological and cultural purposes. The school itself was formally inaugurated by His Late Highness Maharajadhiraj, Yadavindra Singh ji of Patiala, on 23 April, 1968.
On June 6, 1944, General Gurnam Singh and his wife Mata Niranjan Kaur left his house and 92 bighas of land in trust to be used by the citizens of Jind State for educational purposes irrespective of colour, caste and creed. Due in part to the merger of States in Indian Union, the building and the land was utilised by the Government for various purposes. First as a Refugee Camp after partition in 1947 and later as a protective home.
However, persuaded then Deputy Commissioner Sh. Tejinder Khanna to establish and start the school as desired by S.B. Sir General Gurnam Singh. A trust was reconstituted on 6 June 1967 by Shri Tejinder Khanna, IAS, the then deputy commissioner, Sangrur by taking 17 prominent personalities as trustees, but he remained an ordinary trustee and persuaded Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh G.O.C. -in-c, Western Command to be the founder chairman of the trust and S. Gurbaksh Singh Sibia, Ex-Minister Punjab to be the founder secretary of the Trust.
It was an uphill task for the chairman to regain possession of the property from the Government, but Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh and late S. Gurbaksh Singh ji, along with other important and influential personalities, succeeded. His Highness Maharaja Yadvindra Singh of Patiala performed the opening ceremony of the school on April 23, 1968. It was named Sangrur Preparatory School, Sangrur. The School then had six class rooms, three staff quarters and the administrative block. Mrs. Kamla Puri was the founding Headmistress. The school was upgraded and renamed Gen. Gurnam Singh Public School, Sangrur in 1970, when S. Harpal Singh took over as its principal.
S. Harpal Singh took over the reins after retiring from Y.P.S. Patiala in 1970.
The chairmanship of the school has been transferred to Capt. Amarinder Singh recently by a decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.