Sr. Satpal Langer was a multifaceted personality and was always in a cheerful mood. He possessed an impressive personality that bore straight forwardness, ability to do and deliver the attitude to sacrifice for the brethren (Biradari). He was an angel for the orphans, widows, lepers and the like. He was a selfless daunting servant of humanity, had foresightedness, an industrialist, a wise man and a great social reformer. Whatever sacrifice and social work he has done, their doesn’t exist any precedence in history.

Lala Satpal Langer was born on 26th January ‘1940 at Rihal village in Jammu in a simple but cultural family. His father was Lala Rahlu Ram Langer (Rihal wale) and his mother was Smt. Veero Devi. Sr. Satpal Langer has three brothers – Late Sh. Kasturi Lal, Chajju Ram and youngest one Kewal Langer and also two sisters namely Sanya Devi and Dhano Devi. He got educated upto 5th class at his village Rihal and then passed his matriculation examination at Bisnah in the year 1956. After passing matric he got the job of Post Master and was firstly posted at Miran Sahib, R.S. Pura. He used to got door to door either on foot or on cycle to deliver the letters. He was a jolly fellow to make others laugh but something good was in his lot also.

He started a small business of oil, ghee, Atta etc and because of hard work he was able to purchase a truck also and used to sell the goods from place to place in that truck. There has been a great role of his elder brother Kasturi Lal ji and his mother Veero Devi to give him the right cult. His brother and mother Veero Devi used to instigate him to hold langers and to serve the people. In year 1961 he was married in a well-off family at Amritsar and his wife Santosh Gupta helped in all his jobs. He is survived by four sons and two daughters, Ram and Sham are twins and others are Sanjeev and Rakesh. His two son-in-laws too are from well-off families who are Praveen Gupta (Corporator Channi) and Naresh. By the grace of God they are running big businesses.

In the year 1988 Sr. Satpal Langer was elected president of Langer Biradari and he organized many Ophthalmic (eye) check up camps and ophthalmic surgery camps and used to do many such things free of cost. He started langer at Buda Amarnath in year 1991 and it continues till date. He continued lager for Amarnath Yatries at Mahajan Hall, Shalamar, Jammu for many years together. He opened tailoring/ cutting centers at eight villages in Bishnah and used to provide sewing machines, thread and cloth to these centers of his own. He managed marriage for many poor girls and used to donate to SOS Village. He got rehris for the lepers from Amritsar for Kusht Ashram to make the lepers stand on their own feet and earn their own livelihood. He gave potatoes and onions to them to sell. E got installed the idols of Ganga Mata, Savitri Mata and Yamraj at Shamshan Ghat, Jammu.

In a historical meeting of all India Mahajan Shriomani Sabha he said that he will pay Rs.2000/- less then the highest donor to Sabha. Sr. Tejram Gupta, President of the Sabha donated Rs.1.25 Lakhs and Lala Satpal Langer donated Rs.1.23 Lakhs. This shows his greatness to honour others. His greatest achievement was in 1994 when he was chosen the President of Jammu Yatri Bhawan – Haridwar. A palatial building was raised from the Yatri Bhawan with 150 rooms, 3 big halls, 5 temples, one Gao-shalla, Yagya Shalla with lift facility, a big park, parking space for vehicles, cooling systems (Fridge) for providing cold drinking water, dinning hall, best chairs to sit on at various places. On Kanal land was purchased during his time near bus stand Jammu. On which there is a plan for construction of 28 rooms, 1 hall and 1 temple. There is also a plan from the transit stay of Yatries from far away places going to Haridar.

There was full contribution and support from the people of Jammu for the construction of the Yatri Bahwan. Now, not only for J&K state but the whole world many people come to Jammu Yatri Bhawan. One of the greatest projects of Lala Hansraj Mahajan of Mirpur Sidhar, popularly known as Sher-e-Duggar could not be started. But Satpal ji in cooperation with the biradari people wanted to construct “Sher-e-Duggar Lal Hansraj Mahajan” University, Medical College, Engineering College which was the programme of all the religious sammelan but he fell ill and this project could not start.

The last words of the last speech of the founder President of the Jammu Yatri Bhawan are:

“Ham Laye hain toofan se kishti nikal ke
eis bhawan ko rakhna mere mitro sambhal ke”

And at the end we would say: “Na din ko jise chain tha – Na raat ko aaram tha, dil mein yatri bhawan ka ek arman liye goomta who subah sham tha”

“Jan apni deke hum mein chala gaya, hay Jammu valo Lal Satpal Langer uska naam tha”