Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha)

Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha) (1905-1988) was a member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Parliament of India, for three terms (1956–62 and 1962-68 from Biharand then a nominated member in 1968-1974).  He was prominent in the Indian National Congress party and a co-founder of the Congress Socialist Party.  He was close toRajendra Prasad, India's first President. He shared a house in Patna with his close friend and nationalist Jayaprakash Narayan.

Gangasharan Sinha, commonly called Ganga Babu, had acquaintance with many Hindi writers but never wrote himself. A good orator, he worked to promote Hindi as a national language. He was among the founding members of the Board of trustees of Bharatiya Jnanpith. The Kedriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra has instituted an award in his honour. TheGovernment of India has instituted Ganga Sharan Singh Awards under Hindi Sevi Samman Awards.   The government of Bihar has instituted an award for literature in his name.

Ganga Sharan Singh was also a member of the Press Council of India between November 16, 1966 and December 31, 1969.

He died in 1988 of a heart attack.

The Government of India had accepted the recommendations of the Ganga Sharan Sinha Committee Report on child education in 1969 and decided to integrate all services for the 0- to 6-year-olds, planning proceeded cautiously, piloted at first, with the ICDS conceptual model.