Pingalwara

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Pingalwara is a house for destitutes in Amritsar in northern Indian state of Punjab. It is housed in a three storey building near the main Amritsar bus stand on the National Highway no. 1, also known as G.T. or Grand Trunk Road.

Currently Pingalwara has facilities for 1080 "patients" who are fed, housed and looked after thanks to generous support of various philanthropists. The unclaimed bodies of the deceased are donated to Government Medical College, Amritsar for research and teaching purposes.

Pingalwara is officially registered as All India Pingalwara Charitable Society. Since death of Bhagat Puran Singh in 1992, it is headed by Dr. Inderjit Kaur who is a physician by training and also runs a private maternity clinic in Sangrur, Punjab.

Pingalwara also operates a free drug dispensary, a blood bank, a shelter for intelectually disabled children and a free primary school in a slum area in Amritsar city. Poor and abandoned children raised by Pingalwara are helped re-establish themselves in society at completion of their school education. An ambulance and a basic operation room is available for trauma care of accident victims.

The organisation opeaned their latest branch in an area of 25 acres located on Amritsar-Jallandhar highway at Manawala. It comprises a Senior secondary school, SOS homes, wards for mentally ill patients as well as for old aged and a Physotheripic centre.

Pingalwara in the year 2006 bought 35 acres of land near Jaindiala, 20 km from Amritsar. There is an organic farm. Fresh fruits and vegetables are grown without using pesticides.