CLEAN CAMPUS ! GREEN CAMPUS ! SERENE CAMPUS !
It was way back, about 120 years ago, in 1892, that the Founder of the long saga of Seth Jai Parkash Mukand Lal Institutions of Knowledge and Service, Mukand Lal, was born in a small, sleepy non-descript village Radaur, now in District Yamuna Nagar,State of Haryana. He started his career as the most ordinary person in search of a job to make his both ends meet. But with an inborn commercial instinct, visionary foresight and hard physical struggle, he turned his life into a fabulous and exemplary ‘rags to riches’ story. He attained ‘Midas Touch’ in Lahore where he turned scrap into auriferous commodity. To be rich is not so important as to be kind, noble and compassionate. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, with whom he used to spend a lot of time was so much touched by his disposition, especially his humility that he often fondly addressed him ‘Mera Pagla Bhagat’. Guided by his inner urge, he turned to his roots and started establishing educational and service Institutions in Radaur, Yamuna Nagar and Ghaziabad. He was almost illiterate, yet he founded educational institutes and nursed the dream of setting up a University at Yamuna Nagar. Before breathing his last in 1952, he passed over the philanthropic baton to his son Jai Parkash, who was a gentle soul with heroic disposition to donate and serve. Seth Jai Parkash established as many as 12 Institutions but ‘none of them in his own name’. Accordingly, “If I start opening colleges and hospitals in my own name, there will be hardly anything left for my children to do with zeal and enthusiasm”. Such was the selfless spirit and zealous fervour of this great personallity. He was a great philanthropist and humanist in the real sense of the word.
Seth Jai Parkash was concerned about the quality of education and service being provided to the poor masses. He epitomized the Second Generation of this saga of ‘Service to Humanity’ and handed over the ‘Relay Torch’ of diligence, devotion and dedication to his son Shri Ashok Kumar, who has been successfully looking after about 25 Institutions (including eight established by himself) for the past more than four decades with the flair and fervour of his respected Babuji and beloved ‘Baba Ji’ . He has inherited the unique spectrum of Quality, Proportion and Finesse from his ancestors. With mind for development and heart for the poor, Shri Ashok Kumar, a perfectionist and a man of details, is marching ahead with new innovations based on noble traditions. As an expert administrator, he is all the time thinking, planning, finalizing and executing new infrastructures, new courses, new vistas, new facilities for the students of his Institutions.
The long story that started in the 19th century continues even today with future prospects of additions, expansions and development in the real earnest. Already the towering figures of Shri Ashok Kumar and Shri Vijay Kumar representing the Third Generation of this legendary tale are passing on values, tips and responsibility to the next generation of Pradeep, Anuradha, Bani, Ashwini, Shibani, Bharat, Bhawna and the still next generation of Megha, Mudit and others. Thus, the noble tradition continues bringing in its wake excellent educational and service institutes to light up the young minds and serve the needy and the destitute.
Mukand Lal National College, Radaur
The College was established in 1971 by Seth Jai Parkash in the cherished memory of his illustrious father Seth Mukand Lal Ji at Radaur being their native village. From the founder Principal Dr. B.K.Chanan, Dr. G. Prakash took over the charge. He and his successors, Dr. D.Singh, Dr. Raj Krishan, Dr. S.K. Arora, Dr. Saroj Vashishtha and Dr. Ashok Kumar with the able support and magnanimity of the Chairman Shri Ashok Kumar coupled with unstinting support of faculty members have succeeded in carving a niche for the college as a good institute of higher education.
