Kair

Kair (कैर) is a village in Najafgarh zone, west Delhi.

Location

In fact, this is situated on Haryana border, near Mitraon village. Seedipur (Haryana) is also close to it.

Kair Tree

Kair (कैर) is a tree also found in rural areas of northern India, specially in Rajasthan. It gorows as wild bush/tree in unused gounds (जो'ङा). It has bright red color flowers and the fruit is small and round in shape like berri. Unripe fruit is green which becomes red when ripe. Fruit, called Kair (कैर/कैरिया) is used in pickles mostly. Kair pickle is available now in market. It is cooked with Kejdi Pod (सांगरी) as a curry which tastes great. Villagers dry Kair/Kairiya and use it for longer periods also.

History

Subedar Kure Ram Sherawat family of Kair, Najafgarh , Delhi

Subedar Kure Ram[4][5] son of Ch. Ram Rattan was the first Viceroy Commissioned Officer of the Kair village who died during the British campaign of Mesopotamia in the first World War. He had two highly successful sons. The elder son Chaudhary Bhim Singh[6][7] was among first graduate batch of Delhi University from St. Stephen's college in 1923, he was also a selected candidate of Punjab Civil Services (P.C.S) in 1928 and then retired from the post of Director General of Land Records, Punjab (Present day whole Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh) in 1959. The younger son Chaudhary Sher Singh Sehrawat, BA (Born:1912) was also a Delhi University graduate during the British period in 1932 and worked for the Govt. of India.

The sons of Chaudhary Bhim Singh, BA, L.LB, the eldest son Lt. Colonel Umrao Singh, BA, L.LB was a first direct Indian Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army from the village in 1948. His wife, Smt. Braham Kaur, a daughter of the Captain Amin Lal M.C Bahadur of Village Baland, he was a Military Cross recipient in first World War and also dies as a centenarian in 1978 with a record of taking pension for longest period in Haryana. The younger son Ch. Dil Bagh Singh, B.A, L.LB was a Lawyer in Delhi.

Also the sons of Chaudhary Sher Singh, Ch. O. J. Singh Sehrawat (Masters in History from University of Delhi) and Ch. Rajender Singh Sehrawat worked for the Govt. of India. The daughter of Ch. O. J. Singh Sehrawat namely, Dr. Seema Sehrawat is a PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Currently placed at United States, she is a famous research scientist of global repute and has worked at the prestigious Harvard Medical School for 10 years. The son of Ch. O. J. Singh Sehrawat namely Ashish Sehrawat is a physicist of international repute and has studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Indore.

Notable Persons

• Ramit Sehrawat - DUSU Student Leader and Advocate
• Subedar Kure Ram son of Ch. Ram Rattan was the first Viceroy Commissioned Officer of the Kair village who lost his life during the British campaign of Mesopotamia in the First World War.

• Chaudhary Bhim Singh son of Subedar Kure Ram, he was a first batch Graduate of Delhi University from prestigious St. Stephen's College, New Delhi in 1923 and selected as a P.C.S officer during British period & retired from the post of Director General of Land Records, Punjab (At that time it comprises of Whole Punjab, Haryana & Himachal Pradesh).

• His son Lt. Col Umrao Singh was a first direct commissioned officer of the Indian Army from the village.

• Gian Singh Sehrawat is an Olympian in Wrestling who participated in Los Angeles Olympics games, 1984.

Aashish sherawat Village kair najafgarh Delhi

Rohit sherawat Village kair ASI CRPF(second 🥈 position in world police wrestling)

Gotras

It is a Sehrawat gotra village.

External Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kair,_Delhi

References

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