Shankarbaba Pundlikrao Papalkar

Shankarbaba Pundlikrao Papalkar (born 14 February 1942), also known as Shankar Baba Papalka, is an Indian social worker from the Amravati district of Maharashtra, India, known for his work towards rehabilitation of disabled and orphaned children. Papalkar is a follower of Osho and attributes his motivation for humanitarian work to Osho's teachings.

Activism Papalkar used to publish a Marathi magazine ‘Devkinandan Gopal’ from Mumbai in the early 70s. In 1990, he founded the Late Ambadaspant Vaidya Matimand Mukbadir Shishu Sanjivani Sanstha, an orphanage for disabled and orphaned children, on 25 acres of land in Wazzar, approximately 50 kilometers from the city of Amravati. The organization began by providing shelter to four disabled girls. He has also led environmental efforts at the ashram, planting around 15,000 trees on the land, which are cared for by the resident children.