Santlal Sejwal

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Author is the eldest son of a very simple farmer of Haryana. After matriculation, he could not study further due to differences among the members of the family so he joined the Indian Army as Telecom Mechanic in EME Corps at the age of eighteen. During his service, he completed BA, MA (Pol Science), and B Ed as private or correspondence courses. After serving sixteen years of service, he took a medical board pension from Army in 1986 and had also run his own business successfully for six years.

Being passionate for the teaching profession, he joined the Delhi Education Department as TGT in 1992. After witnessing the critical condition of Gujarat Earthquake’s victims and bad management of the system, he took up M Sc. Degree in Disaster Mitigation in 2003. Later on, he wrote a book on the Environment “Man towards Its Own End” which was published in 2010 by Raider International Publisher New York.

After serving for twenty two years as a teacher, he retired in 2014 and shifted to Nainital. Now he is conducting a programme to improve the education of needy children of tribes in Uttrakhand.