Ved Prakash Upaddhay
He served for 40 years at Panjab University, Chandigarh and retired as Professor and Head of Sanskrit Department. He then taught Sanskrit medium for three years in the classes of Shastri, Acharya and Abhascharya at Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi. More than 60 students have done PhD under him. He was made the President of Adarsh Sanskrit Shodha Sanstha of Himachal Pradesh by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and he is the chairman of the institution still now. Impressed by his brilliant research work, he was honored and rewarded at the national and international level by many national and international institutions. Apart from this, he participated in more than 100 Sanskrit classical conferences, presided over 26 international conferences and research seminars, published 100 research papers and under his direction, 70 research students did M.Phil. and 60 have done Ph.D. At present, he is also the chairman and member of several committees.  He has also given radio talks several times, whose aim has been to make Sanskrit universal. Haryana Sanskrit Academy as a member of many important committees of Haryana Government, Upadhyay has been an active contributor and has been working as a consultant in Hariprabha research magazine. He is performing the responsibility as the custodian of the Gurukul Mansadevi complex.