Background
Vimla Dang, née Vimla Bakaya, was born on 26 December 1926 in a Kashmiri family at Lahore in the British India and did her early education in the local schools.
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Vimla Dang, née Vimla Bakaya, was born on 26 December 1926 in a Kashmiri family at Lahore in the British India and did her early education in the local schools.
Two of the organizations she co-founded, Punjab Istri Sabha and the Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust are engaged in providing education to the children of those who lost their lives during the Punjab insurgency of the 1970s and 80s. She was a part of the All India Students Federation (AISF) delegation which visited the state and engaged in the relief activities of the Bengal famine of 1943. Later, she moved to Prague, the capital of the erstwhile Czechoslovakia, joining the International Students Union (International Skating Union), and spent a few years there involved with the organization"s activities.
Once in India, she worked for several publications as a correspondent.
The couple headed the Municipal Council of the town several times, Vimla Dang holding the post of the president of the Chhehrata Municipal Committee from 1968 till 1978 and is credited with transforming the town into a model town in Punjab. lieutenant was during Vimla Dang"s tenure as the head of the Municipal Committee, the first creche in the state of Punjab was established in Chhehrata.
In 1954, she co-founded Punjab Istri Sabha and a relief trust, Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust, under the aegis of the Sabha, for assisting in the education of the children of the war victims. The Sabha and the Trust were active during and after the Punjab insurgency of the 1970s which lasted till 1990s, helping with children"s education.
Her graduation was at Wilson College, Mumbai during which time she continued her involvement in student politics. She also attended the first Party Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Bombay in 1943. The couple settled in Chheharta Sahib, a satellite town of Amritsar, where they continued their social and political work for the development of the area.
Vimla and Satpal Dang lived in the Party office and had no children, by their own choice.
She was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly representing Amritsar West constituency. She was involved with student politics early on when she became a member of the Lahore Students’ Union. She was an office bearer of National Federation of Indian Women and served as a member of the National Council of the Communist Party of India till her voluntary retirement from the Council due to old age.