Rana Gajinder Chand Ji, a true blood Rajput thakur with royal lineage that could be traced to Maharaja of Garhwal, was born on 19th August, 1929 in Mansowal and expired on 26th April, 1992 in a car accident. He started his early education at Mansowal, then did his Cambridge education from Colonel Brown’s at Dehradun. By the age of 18-19 years, he was back at Mansowal looking after the Estate that the family owned.
He was always ready to help the needy people. All the houses currently in Mansowal village are built on land that belongs to this family and were gradually given to the poor and destitute farmers of the area who werebereft of a roof over their head by the large hearted Ranaji. At times money and basic amenities were also provided to the needy by him.
In 1960’s untouchability was widely prevalent but Rana Ji totally rejected this notion and treated everybody as equal. His son is of the opinion that they are not even 10% of him in terms of generosity and the desire for betterment of others.
Summing up, we can say that he was a true social up lifter believing in neither class not creed simply working for the benefit of humanity.
His eldest son Yatinder Chand Tikka also has a close connection with the villagers and is actively involved in promoting women education in this area and that’s what made him donate this 18 acres of land in his father’s memory to the Trust for starting educational institutions to promote education among the Women of his area.