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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Arjun Dass Grover<br />
|alma_mater = King George Medical College, Lucknow<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|3|1|df=yes}}{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|10|7|1928|3|1|df=yes}}{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}<br />
|death_place = Chandigarh<br />
|education = M.B.B.S. (1951)<br>M.S. Ophthalmology (1955), King George Medical College, Lucknow<br />
|occupation = Ophthalmologist<br />
|spouse(s) = Pushpa Miglani<br />
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'''Arjun Dass Grover''' (1928–1987){{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} was an Indian ophthalmologist.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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Grover was born on 1 March 1928{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} in [[Mianwali]] ([[West Punjab]]) to Shri Bhoga Ram and Piari Bai. His primary education was in [[Okara, Pakistan|Okara]]. Later he went to [[Lahore]] and joined D.A.V. College and passed his F.Sc. He was admitted to [[Balak Ram medical College|Balak Ram Medical College]] but after the [[Partition of India|partition]] in 1947, he continued his medical education in [[King George Medical College]], [[Lucknow]]. He passed his M.B.B.S. with honors in 1951 and M.S in [[ophthalmology]] in 1955 from the same college. He married Pushpa Miglani in 1954. He settled in [[Chandigarh]] in 1960 and died on 7 October 1987.<br />
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==Professional life==<br />
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After a short stint in [[Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]] at the Sitapur Eye Hospital, he joined the Gandhi Eye Hospital in [[Aligarh district|Aligarh]] as an assistant professor in charge of the research wing from 1956 to 1960. He carried out extensive research on [[trachoma]]. His work on [[Molluscum contagiosum|Molluscum Contagiosum]] was acknowledged in the famous Ophthalmology Book series of Sir [[Stewart Duke-Elder|Stewart Duke Elder]]. He helped set up the eye department at [[Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research|P.G.I. Chandigarh]] in 1960. In 1962, he resigned from P.G.I. and started the first private eye hospital in Chandigarh.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://grover.net.in/about-us.html|title = Grover Eye Laser & ENT Hospital, Chandigarh.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thecityguide.in/Chandigarh/Chandigarh/Sector-35-A/Hospitals/Grover-Eye-and-ENT-Hospital-ISUA/|title = EDITOR'S NOTE OF GROVER EYE AND ENT HOSPITAL, SECTOR - 35 A|access-date = 16 August 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140809194628/http://www.thecityguide.in/Chandigarh/Chandigarh/Sector-35-A/Hospitals/Grover-Eye-and-ENT-Hospital-ISUA/#|archive-date = 9 August 2014|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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===Key positions===<br />
* Founder Chandigarh Ophthalmological Society (1985)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chdophsoc.org/about-cos.php |title=About Chandigarh Ophthalmological Society |access-date = 1 May 2021}}</ref><br />
* President of [[Indian Medical Association]], Chandigarh State Branch 1981–82{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}<br />
* Medical Director and Chairman - Grover Eye Laser & ENT Hospital<br />
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==Philanthropy==<br />
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He participated in the first eye operation camp held by the [[Lions Club]] in [[Chandigarh]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://lionscentral.org/projects|title = Lions Club Chandigarh}}</ref> Later his social work extended to the tribal areas near [[Ranchi]] ([[South Chotanagpur division|Chhota Nagpur]], [[Lohardaga district|Lohardaga]] and [[Khunti district|Khunti]]) where in 1983 the tribal people learned that cataracts were curable. [[Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System|Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools]] carried on his work and established a hospital in his memory.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.davhzb.in/search?q=grover&x=7&y=2 |title=N.D. GROVER MEMORIAL INTER SCHOOL QUIZ-2013 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.davhzb.in/2012/07/n-d-grover-memorial-super-performers.html|title = N. D. Grover Memorial Super Performers' Felicitation Ceremony-2012|access-date = 16 August 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160913212947/http://www.davhzb.in/2012/07/n-d-grover-memorial-super-performers.html#|archive-date = 13 September 2016|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url = http://www.davcollegeabohar.com/|title = Founder principal Sh. N.D. Grover - DAV College Abohar}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.davrdbihar1.net.in/grv.html |title=MAHATMA N. D. GROVER |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214153710/http://www.davrdbihar1.net.in/grv.html |archivedate=2013-12-14 }}</ref><br />
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==Dedications==<br />
* The lecture hall in the [[Indian Medical Association]] building, Chandigarh is named after him.<br />
* An oration was instituted in his memory.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://indmedica.com/cos/oration.htm|title = Dr. A. D. Grover Memorial Oration}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian ophthalmologists]]<br />
[[Category:1928 births]]<br />
[[Category:1987 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Medical doctors from Chandigarh]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian surgeons]]<br />
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