Lead­ing Sikh busi­ness mag­nate and so­cial ac­tivist Rupin­der Singh Marco be­stowed with the 7th Hu­man Rights Award in recog­ni­tion of his work for the un­der­priv­i­leged. 

In recog­ni­tion of his work for the down­trod­den, poor and the un­der­priv­i­leged, en­tre­pre­neur and busi­ness mag­nate Rupin­der Singh Marco was given the 7th Hu­man Rights Award at the In­dia Is­lamic Cen­tre by var­i­ous hu­man rights bod­ies in Delhi last week, promi­nent among which was Coun­cil of Hu­man Rights, Lib­er­ties and So­cial Jus­tice.

Rupin­der Singh Marco has ini­ti­ated pro­jects for the poor in Mad­hya Pradesh. He en­cour­ages em­ploy­ment and men­tor­ing of the poor in his own in­dus­try as well as train­ing youth for em­ploy­a­bil­ity in other in­dus­tries.

Son of renowned scholar and writer Manohar Singh Marco who wrote many books and ar­ti­cles on Sikh his­tory and is fa­mous for his many writ­ings, Rupin­der Singh is con­tribut­ing sub­stan­tially to skill de­vel­op­ment for the un­der­priv­i­leged and fur­ther­ing the work of his fa­ther. He says, “I strongly be­lieve that poverty can be erad­i­cated through ed­u­ca­tion and em­pow­er­ment.”

Rupin­der Singh has pub­lished books of the works of his il­lus­tri­ous fa­ther, in­clud­ing a book en­ti­tled “Sikh Her­itage through Stamps” which cat­a­logues postage stamps with Sikhs from dif­fer­ent coun­tries de­pict­ing their achieve­ment in dif­fer­ent fields.

“I strongly be­lieve that poverty can be erad­i­cated through ed­u­ca­tion and em­pow­er­ment.”

Rupin­der Singh Marco

He is pas­sion­ate about the re­search work done by his fa­ther about Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji di Pa­van Punit Bani Diyan Hath Likhat Pracheen Beeran di Parikarma -a com­pre­hen­sive chronol­ogy of old man­u­scripts of hand writ­ten ver­sions of Guru Granth Sahib. The first vol­ume of this mo­men­tous work has been pub­lished while the sec­ond and third are un­der pub­li­ca­tion. 

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Se­lected as one of the 500 Sikh role mod­els by a Sikh or­gan­i­sa­tion, Rupin­der Singh Marco is the chair­per­son of the Marco Foun­da­tion, through which it es­tab­lishes sewing cen­tres for poor ladies from fi­nan­cially weaker sec­tions in Mad­hya Pradesh.