Vimla Dang

Vimla Dang (1926–2009) was an Indian social worker and politician, known for propounding the Dang school of Politics, reportedly a stream of politics adhering to the values of integrity and honesty. She was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly representing Amritsar West constituency. 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.

Biography 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. She also attended the first Party Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Bombay in 1943. Later, she moved to Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, joining the International Students Union (ISU), and spent a few years there involved with the organization's activities. and is credited with transforming the town into a model town in Punjab. It 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. and Aruna Asaf Ali Memorial Trust, an NGO founded in 1997, in the name of the Bharat Ratna awardee.

Vimla and Satpal Dang lived in the Party office and had no children, by their own choice. Vimla Dang fell ill on the International Workers' Day of 2009, after participating in the flag hoisting ceremony at the Party's Chheharta office and died ten days later, on 10 May 2009, at the age of 83, was published two years prior to her death, edited by her elder brother, Ravi M. Bakaya, a former professor of Russian at Jawaharlal Nehru University.