Mahajan, Bajwa are members of child welfare council

Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, June 15

Romesh Mahajan, project director of the Gurdaspur District Red Cross Drug De-addiction Centre, and Dr RS Bajwa are the two Gurdaspur-based persons who have been elected as members of the executive council of the Punjab State Council for Child Welfare (PSCCW).

A total of five members have been elected to the executive council. Two members are from Chandigarh while one is from Jalandhar. Prajakta Neel Kanth, wife of IAS officer Neel Kanth Awadh, has been elected as the president of the executive council.

Punjab Governor V.P Singh Badnore is the president of the PSCCW while Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh is its vice-president.

Mahajan has already been nominated as a life member of the Indian Council of Child Welfare and also holds the post of honorary secretary of the Gurdaspur District Council of Child Welfare. He is a social activist and has been running the Preliminary Education Study Centre in Ram Nagar, a slum area of this city, for the last several years.