BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Bains was born in India at Dagana Kalan, his maternal
village near Hoshiarpur to mother Sardarni Pritam Kaur and
father S. Naginder Singh Bains in 1936. He grew up in his
paternal village Manak Dheri in district Hohiarpur. His mother
was a noble housewife and father was a simple peasant. Even
when Raghbir Singh was in his teens, he used to spend after-school
hours in grazing buffalos to support livelihood of his parental
family and doing social service in the community.
- He did his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master
of Arts from Punjab University, India during his service with
Northern Railway.
- While serving as Taxation Inspector with
the Government of Punjab, Dr Bains obtained the degree of
LL.B from Guru Nanak Dev University Punjab in the year1982.
- He earned drug-counseling certification from different institutions
in Canada and USA.
- Dr Bains earned the degree of Ph.D. from
USA in 2002 at the age of 67 on world religions and world
cultures.
Dr. Bains has vast experience of working on different government
and non-government advisory committees in India and Canada.
He has a rich experience of working as Drug addiction counselor,
Manager of drug addiction counseling department and Chairman
of the Gains Act Tribunal in British Columbia, Canada.
Raghbir Singh Bains is author of the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism
on multimedia technology, which is first of its kind in the
world. He is producer-director of Multimedia Sikh Museum set
up in India (Khadur Sahib) by using the Robotic and LCD (liquid
crystal display) touch screen technology. Dr Bains has produced
couple of CDs on drug addiction, HIV-AIDS, Sikh history-philosophy
and world peace. He is a well known writer who has authored
many classic books and created various CDs dealing with socio-economic
evils in the world. Although he is in seventies, he is still
busy in setting up a Cyber School that would give free coaching
to students in the fields of drug addiction, English, Mathematics
and Science subjects worldwide.
A living legend, Dr Bains touched the heights of life long
achievements by dint of his honest labour, commitment and
hard work in life. He has earned good name-fame and accomplished
more than most men of his time. He has been decorated with
prestigious awards for working with vulnerable youth on drugs,
rapes, prostitution, AIDS, environment and world peace. Dr
Bains has been honored with dozens of local, national and
international awards like: Order of British Columbia, Government
of B.C. Canada, Sahitya Shiromani Award (Vashesh), Government
of Punjab, India, Order of Khalsa, Government of Punjab, India,
Panth Ratan Award, India, International Dasmesh Award, USA,
Good Citizen of Surrey Title, Local Government of Surrey,
Canada, Queen II’s Golden Jubilee Medal, Government
of Canada, Information Technology Volunteer Award, India,
Wisdom of Age Mentorship Award, Canada, Order of Nishan-e-Sikhi,
India, Sikh Scholar of Computer Age (Sri Akal Takht Sahib
and SGPC) India, Shan-e-Punjab International Award, India,
Community Mentor Award, Surrey, B.C. Canada, and Philanthropy
Award Canada etc..
Dr. Bains has organized dozens of seminars and conferences
worldwide on the subjects of drugs and youth, rapes and prostitution,
HIV and AIDS awareness, environmental issues and world peace.
He is always busy in creating a drug free haven for global
communities so that people over this earth live a peaceful
and harmonious life. He has toured dozens of countries in
the world to create awareness about dangers of poverty, drugging,
prostitution and AIDS. His research work on AIDS in Tanzania,
Kenya and Uganda is praiseworthy. His interest in promoting
humanitarianism, mutual understanding, universal brother-hood,
human welfare, life value system, peace and prosperity in
the world is commendable. Being a good role model, Dr Bains
enjoys complete trust and popularity in the global Sikh community.
He is widely respected for his broad knowledge and selfless
service on socio-economic issues and his ability to deliver
the preventive measures accordingly.
Dr Bains offers his expertise on drugs and social evils
to pepole of all ages and genders in his city, region, province,
country and outside its borders addressing seminars, inter-active-workshops,
publishing articles and creating awareness through audio-visual
aids-media so that future generations become productive members
of the global socio-economic fabric.
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