Shabab Aalam (born 15 August 1984) is an

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

author, educationalist and a poet of

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and

Urdu language Urdu (;"Urdu"
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. He established the Grameen Mukt Vidhyalayi Shiksha Sansthan, the

First Aid Council of India First Aid Council of India (abbreviated as FACI) is a non-governmental organisation, based at Shahdara, in the Indian union territory of Delhi. It was established by Shabab Aalam, an Indian educationist and author, in 2017, and it aims to prom ...

, and serves as the president of the latter. He received the Meezan Talimi Khidmat Award in 2018.

Biography

Shabab Aalam was born on 15 August 1984 in

Muzaffarnagar Muzaffarnagar is a city under Muzaffarnagar District in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated midway on the Delhi - Haridwar/Dehradun National Highway (NH 58) and is also well connected with the national railway network. It is kno ...

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. He received his primary education at local schools and then travelled to

Meerut Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...

for higher studies and graduated with a

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in Geography. He holds an

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, an

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and a

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degree. He studied

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with

Nawaz Deobandi Mohammad Nawaz Khan (commonly known as Nawaz Deobandi; born 16 June 1956) is an Indian Urdu language poet. He is also a Ghazal writer some of them are sung by famous Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh. He wrote the lyrics for the Ghazal album ''Amaanat ...

. Aalam has written several poems in

Hindi language Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

. In 2015, he established the Grameen Mukt Vidhyalayi Shiksha Sansthan, an alternate educational board that runs on the pattern as the

National Institute of Open Schooling The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly National Open School (name changed in 2002), is the board of education under the Union Government of India. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Gove ...

. This institute was awarded the Best Distance Learning Centre award in 2020. In 2017, he established the

(FACI) to promote first aid education in India. He serves as the president of the FACI. Aalam's several books are recommended readings in certain Indian universities. He was conferred with the 2017 Meezan Talimi Khidmat Award. In 2023, Aalam was awarded an honorary doctorate by the European University College in Colombo.

Filmography

Aalam has composed lyrics for several songs.

Songs

References

Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aalam, Shabab 1984 births Living people People from Muzaffarnagar Urdu-language poets from India Hindi-language poets 21st-century Indian writers