Nirmal Kaur Saini (8 October 1938 13 June 2021) was an Indian volleyball player and captain of the
India women's national volleyball team.
She was the wife of athlete
Milkha Singh and the mother of
Jeev Milkha Singh.
Biography
She was born on 8 October 1938, in
Sheikhupura
Sheikhupura ( pa, ; ur, ) also known as Qila Sheikhupura, is a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. Founded by the Mughal Empire, Mughal Emperor Jahangir, Jehangir in 1607, Sheikhupura is the List of most populous citie ...
,
Punjab (now part of Pakistan).
She was Director of Sports for Women in the State Department. She graduated from
Panjab University with a master's degree in Political Science in 1958.
Personal life
Nirmal Saini later married
Milkha Singh. She was the mother of 3 daughters and 1 son, golfer
Jeev Milkha Singh and lived in
Chandigarh. In 1999, they adopted the seven-year-old son of Havildar Bikram Singh, who had died in the
Battle of Tiger Hill.
["Jeev Milkha Singh,"](_blank)
''the south-asian.com'' June 2002.["Carry on, Jeev,"](_blank)
''The Telegraph'' (Calcutta, India), 4 November 2006.
She died on 13 June 2021, in
Mohali
Mohali, officially known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city in the Mohali district in Punjab (India), Punjab, India, which is an administrative and a commercial hub lying south-west of Chandigarh. It is the headquarters of the Moh ...
, due to
COVID-19; her husband died five days later, also from the virus.
References
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Punjabi people
Indian women's volleyball players
1938 births
People from Sheikhupura
Sportswomen from Punjab, India
Volleyball players from Punjab, India
20th-century Indian women
20th-century Indian people
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India