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Nirmal was also associated with the affairs of the Milkha Singh Charitable Trust and would often help needy players and children.
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While Nirmal was operated on for her knees prior to the release of the movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag in 2013, the octogenarian was a regular at the Chandigarh Golf Course with Milkha Singh to watch their son play with the recent being the Jeev Invitational Challenge. She also worked as joint director sports, Chandigarh, and director sports, Chandigarh, after her retirement from Punjab. While Nirmal Milkha Singh too worked as director of sports for women in the Punjab sports department, where Milkha Singh became the director of sports and education, the former Indian volleyball captain also took care of the Singh’s household which included their daughter Dr Mona Singh, Aleeza Grover, Sonia Sanwalka and son Jeev Milkha Singh. (Special Arrangement) Support pillar for family and society Nirmal Milkha Singh on the day of her wedding. By God’s grace we have completed 55 years of marriage and every day is like Valentine’s Day for us,” Nirmal had told The Indian Express in 2019. My father was an educated man and he wanted me to marry a truthful and simple man, which Milkha Singh ji was. I idolised Milkha Singh ji and it was he who convinced my father Mehar Chand Saini to marry me off to him. “Not many know that I come from a Hindu family. The couple finally got married on at Pathankot with Sardar Umrao Singh, the then Punjab sports minister, being a member of the baraat. When I met Kairon sahib, he listened to me and said, ‘If you want to marry Nirmal, go ahead at once’,” Singh writes in his memoir.īut with Nirmal’s father Mehar Chand Saini opposing the inter-caste marriage, Kairon once again intervened and convinced him to agree to the marriage. “The affluent Delhi family had heard about my courtship of Nimmi (Nirmal) and wrote furious letters to Kairon Sahib. In 1960, Kaur had joined as Deputy Physical Education (DPE) Instructor at Lady Irwin College, Delhi, and it was this time in Delhi that Milkha Singh would meet Nirmal Kaur and it was also a time when a affluent Delhi family wanted to get their daughter married to Milkha before the then Punjab chief minister Pratap Singh Kairon intervened and asked Milkha to marry Nirmal. A student of College of Physical Education, Patiala, Nirmal would meet Singh again as a student.