Balbir Singh Seechewal

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↑ "MPs – Government of Punjab, India" . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
↑ "Environmentalist Baba Seechewal gets Padma Shri". The Indian Express. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
↑ Prill, Susan E. (April–August 2015). "SIKHI AND SUSTAINABILITY: SIKH APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY". Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory. 11 (1/2) – via The Wikipedia Library.
↑ SINGH, MADHUR (24 September 2008). "Heroes of the Environment 2008 - TIME". Time. ISSN 0040-781X . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
↑ "'Eco Baba' Seechewal wins Padma Shri". Hindustan Times . 28 January 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.

External links

Heroes of the Environment 2008
Nirmal Kuteya Ek Onkar Charitable Trust set up by Seechwal

Balbir Singh Seechewal


Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2022

Rajya Sabha

Preceded by

List

Member of Parliament
in Rajya Sabha for Punjab
2022 –

Incumbent

Rajya Sabha Members from Punjab

AAP (5)	Raghav Chadha Rajinder Gupta Ashok Kumar Mittal Sandeep Pathak Harbhajan Singh
Congress (1)	Ambika Soni
SAD (1)	Balwinder Singh Bhunder

v t e Rajya Sabha
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v t e Aam Aadmi Party
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Political Affairs Committee	Arvind Kejriwal Manish Sisodia Sanjay Singh Gopal Rai Atishi Marlena Durgesh Pathak Imran Hussain Raghav Chadha Rakhi Bidlan
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Spokespersons	Saurabh Bhardwaj (Chief Spokesperson) Sanjay Singh Pankaj Gupta Dilip Pandey Bhagwant Mann Preeti Sharma Menon Prithvi Reddy Nishikant Mohapatra Raghav Chadha Anjali Rai
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Current members of Parliament	Rajya Sabha
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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Social Work
1950s	Mary Clubwala Jadhav (1955) Thackkadu Natesasastrigal Jagadisan (1957) R. S. Subbalakshmi (1958) Sailabala Das (1959) Lakshman Singh Jangpangi (1959)
1960s	Nanabhai Bhatt (1960) Bina Das (1960) Sophia Wadia (1960) Kamalabai Hospet (1961) Mithuben Petit (1961) N. Ramaswami Ayyar (1962) Mother Teresa (1962) Brij Krishna Chandiwala (1963) Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963) Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963) Ambujammal (1964) Mona Chandravati Gupta (1965) Lakshmi Mazumdar (1965) Gordhandas Bhagwandas Narottamdas (1965) John Richardson (1965) Manibhai Desai (1968) Bhaurao Gaikwad (1968) Shalini Moghe (1968) Sis Ram Ola (1968) Kalyan Singh Gupta (1969) Mangru Ganu Uikey (1969)
1970s	Indumati Chimanlal Sheth (1970) Maniben Kara (1970) Baba Amte (1971) Robin Banerjee (1971) Lila Ramkumar Bhargava (1971) Savita Behen (1971) Pandurang Dharmaji Jadhav (1971) Yudhvir Singh (1971) Avabai Bomanji Wadia (1971) Badri Prasad Bajoria (1972) Kanta Saroop Krishen (1972) Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya (1972) Chandraprabha Saikiani (1972) Sarojini Varadappan (1973) Queenie H. C. Captain (1974) L. Kijungluba Ao (1976) Bishambhar Nath Pande (1976) Ismail Ahmed Cachalia (1977) Dhani Prem (1977)
1980s	Kunwar Singh Negi (1981) Bhagat Puran Singh (1981) Claire Vellut (1981) Swami Kalyandev (1982) Shiv Dutt Upadhyaya (1982) M. P. Nachimuthu (1983) Omem Moyong Deori (1984) Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala (1984) Ela Bhatt (1985) Ratnappa Kumbhar (1985) Anutai Wagh (1985) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (1986) Mahasweta Devi (1986) Krishan Dev Dewan (1986) Tushar Kanjilal (1986) Avdhash Kaushal (1986) Narayan Singh Manaklao (1986) Bunker Roy (1986) Begum Zaffar Ali (1987) Jaya Arunachalam (1987) Darshan Singh Vohra (1988) Mithu Alur (1989) Vedaratnam Appakutti (1989) Rajmohini Devi (1989) Krishnammal Jagannathan (1989) Mag Raj Jain (1989) Edward Kutchat (1989)
1990s	Anna Hazare (1990) Renana Jhabvala (1990) Silverine Swer (1990) Silverine Swer (1991) Vimla Dang (1991) T. G. K. Menon (1991) Jagdish Kashibhai Patel (1991) D. Y. Patil (1991) Sundaram Ramakrishnan (1991) Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (1991) Shanthi Ranganathan (1992) C. Rokhuma (1992) Vidyaben Shah (1992) Leonarda Angela Casiraghi (1998) Antony Padiyara (1998) Shantha Sinha (1998) Kanta Tyagi (1998) Acharya Ramamurti (1999) T. Sailo (1999) Natwar Thakkar (1999)
2000s	Neidonuo Angami (2000) Jagan Nath Kaul (2000) Patricia Mukhim (2000) Janaky Athi Nahappan (2000) Hanumappa Sudarshan (2000) Rabindra Nath Upadhyay (2000) Tulasi Munda (2001) Norma Alvares (2002) Prakash Amte (2002) Kiran Martin (2002) Prema Narendra Purao (2002) Sivananda Rajaram (2002) Verna Elizabeth Watre Ingty (2003) Queenie Rynjah (2004) Hema Bharali (2005) Nana Chudasama (2005) Lalsawma (2005) Theilin Phanbuh (2005) Gladys Staines (2005) Suwalal Bafna (2006) Anil Prakash Joshi (2006) Sudha Murty (2006) Sudha Varghese (2006) Melhupra Vero (2006) Runa Banerjee (2007) S. M. Cyril (2007) M. A. Yusuff Ali (2008) Sheela Borthakur (2008) Karuna Mary Braganza (2008) V. R. Gowrishankar (2008) Kshama Metre (2008) Kutikuppala Surya Rao (2008) Madan Mohan Sabharwal (2008) Vikramjit Singh Sahney (2008) Bilkees Latif (2009) Keepu Tsering Lepcha (2009) C. K. Menon (2009) Joseph H. Pereira (2009) Sunil Kanti Roy (2009) Mitraniketan Viswanathan (2009)
2010s	Anu Aga (2010) J. R. Gangaramani (2010) Deep Joshi (2010) Sudha Kaul (2010) Ayekpam Tomba Meetei (2010) Kurian John Melamparambil (2010) Sudhir M. Parikh (2010) Kranti Shah (2010) Baba Sewa Singh (2010) Mamraj Agrawal (2011) Jockin Arputham (2011) Nomita Chandy (2011) Martha Chen (2011) Azad Moopen (2011) Sheela Patel (2011) Anita Reddy (2011) Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor (2011) Shamshad Begum (2012) Reeta Devi (2012) P. K. Gopal (2012) G. Muniratnam (2012) Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya (2012) Uma Tuli (2012) S. P. Varma (2012) Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (2012) Binny Yanga (2012) Jharna Dhara Chowdhury (2013) S. K. M. Maeilanandhan (2013) Nileema Mishra (2013) Reema Nanavati (2013) Manju Bharat Ram (2013) Narendra Dabholkar (2014) Mukul Chandra Goswami (2014) Durga Jain (2014) J. L. Kaul (2014) Mathur Savani (2014) Ashok Bhagat (2015) Janak Palta McGilligan (2015) Meetha Lal Mehta (2015) Veerendra Raj Mehta (2015) Bimla Poddar (2015) Madeleine Herman de Blic (2016) Madhu Pandit Dasa (2016) Ajoy Kumar Dutta (2016) Damal Kandalai Srinivasan (2016) Sunitha Krishnan (2016) Sundar Menon (2016) Arunachalam Muruganantham (2016) P. Gopinathan Nair (2016) Sudharak Olwe (2016) Girish Bharadwaj (2017) Appasaheb Dharmadhikari (2017) Bipin Ganatra (2017) Karimul Haque (2017) Anuradha Koirala (2017) Suhas Vitthal Mapuskar (2017) Daripalli Ramaiah (2017) Balbir Singh Seechewal (2017) Damodar Ganesh Bapat (2018) Sitavva Joddati (2018) Subhasini Mistry (2018) Sulagitti Narasamma (2018) Abdullah Bin Othman (2018) Sampat Ramteke (2018) Draupadi Ghimiray (2019) Bulu Imam (2019) Friederike Irina Bruning (2019) Chinna Pillai (2019) Shabbir Sayyad (2019) Jyoti Kumar Sinha (2019) Saalumarada Thimmakka (2019) Jamuna Tudu (2019) Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli (2019)
2020s	Jagdish Lal Ahuja (2020) Popatrao Baguji Pawar (2020) Usha Chaumar (2020) Lia Diskin (2020) Sangkhumi Bualchhuak (2020 Tulsi Gowda (2020) Harekala Hajabba (2020) Tetsu Nakamura (2020) S. Ramakrishnan (2020) Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri (2020) Mohammed Sharif (2020) Ramjee Singh (2020) Agus Indra Udayana (2020) Sundaram Verma (2020) Sindhutai Sapkal (2021) Girish Prabhune (2021) Prabhaben Shah (2022) Savaji Bhai Dholakia (2022) Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai (2022) Om Prakash Gandhi (2022) K. V. Rabiya (2022) Srimad Baba Balia (2022) Prem Singh (2022) Baba Iqbal Singh Ji (2022) S Damodaran (2022) Basanti Devi (2022) Bhiku Ramji Idate (2023) Bikram Bahadur Jamatia (2023) Ramkuiwangbe Jeme Newme (2023) Hirabai Lobi (2023) Moolchand Lodha (2023) Gajanan Jagannath Mane (2023) Uma Shankar Pandey (2023) V. P. Appukutta Poduval (2023) Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan (2023) Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar (2023) Laxman Singh (2023) Palam Kalyanasundaram (2023) Karma Wangchu (Posthumous) (2023) Parbati Barua (2024) Dukhu Majhi (2024) Chami Murmu (2024) Shankarbaba Pundlikrao Papalkar (2024) KS Rajanna (2024) Sangthankima (2024) Gurvinder Singh (2024) Somanna (2024) Maya Tandon (2024) Sano Vamuzo (2024) Jageshwar Yadav (2024) Bhim Singh Bhavesh (2025) Chaitram Deochand Pawar (2025) Jumde Yomgam Gamlin (2025) Libia Lobo Sardesai (2025) Radha Bahin Bhatt (2025) Suresh Harilal Soni (2025) Vinayak Lohani (2025)

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