| Names |
Narayan Malhar
(N.M.) JOSHI |
| Date of Birth |
June 05, 1879 |
| Date of
Death |
May 30, 1955 |
|
Identity |
Indian trade union leader |
| General |
- He got involved in labour issues and
started the All India Trade Union Congress in 1921
along with Lala Lajpat Rai.
- He was the general secretary of AITUC
from 1925 to 1929 and from 1940 to 1948.
- In 1931, he left AITUC and started the All India
Trade Union Federation.
- In 1911, he Joshi established an organization
called the Social Service League.
- The League conducted training programmes for
volunteers, whose services were later utilized for
relief work among people suffering form famines, epidemics,
floods and other disasters, and also for welfare programmes
among the poor and the destitute.
- He is remembered as one of the pioneers in
Modern Indian Social Work.
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| Postage
stamp released on his birth centenary |
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