Palak Muchhal

Palak Muchhal
Born	March 30, 1992 (1992-03-30) Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Genres	Hindi songs (Orchestra, stage show),
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1997–present

Palak Muchhal is teenager singer from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. She and her younger brother Palaash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise funds for poor children who need financial assistance for the medical treatment of heart Disease.

Biography

Palak Muchhal was born into a middle class family in Indore. Her mother, Amita Muchhal is a homemaker and her father, Rajkumar Muchhal serves as an Accountant in a private firm. She is a Class X student of Queen's College, Indore. Palak started singing when she was four year old. At the age of six, she started singing door-to-door in Indore city to collect fund for soldiers on the Kargil warfront. Her decision to use her voice to help others was triggered when she saw poor children were using clothes off their back to clean train compartments. She belongs to Maheshwari Marwari family.

When she heard that a 5 year old boy named Lokesh from her own city, Indore, was in need of financial assistance for urgent heart surgery she used a street vendor's cart as a stage for her singing stage show. She collected enough money for the heart surgery in only one show. Before she could help Lokesh, a Bangalore based Cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty operated the surgery of Lokesh free of cost after seeing news on TV. But other poor parents needing funds for treatment of heart disease of their children approached Palak for help. And thus began her mission to collect funds for child heart patients by performing stage shows across India and abroad. She has been trained in Indian classical music by Pandit S. N. Mishra. Palak and her parents do not receive any benefits from her charity shows. She receives a doll for every child whose life she helps make better by the funds raised by her. So far she has received 503 dolls representing 503 lives she has saved. She has 621 more heart patients on her waiting list. Palak sings in 17 different languages which includes national and international languages.

Honours and awards

• Palak Muchhal has been awarded Silver Medal for the year 2000 by Vice-President of India Krishan Kant as National Child Award For Exceptional Achievement.
• Palak Muchhal has been winner of Sony Entertainment Television (India) TV show Cadbury Bournvita Confidence Champions. Palak Muchhal has made her entry in Limca Book of Records for her social commitment.
• Palak Muchhal has won Pogo (TV channel) 'Pogo Amazing Kids Award in Leader category'.
• Palak Muchhal is recipient of highly prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Award for the year 2005. She shared this award with personalities like Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Miss Universe Sushmita Sen.
• Palak Muchhal has made her entry in Guinness Book of World Records for great achievements in social work.
• Palak Muchhal has been honoured with Yuva Ojaswini Alankaran award.
• Palak Muchhal has received Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary Club.
• Palak Muchhal has got Giants award 2006 by Giants Group of Ghatkopar Mumbai.
• Palak Muchhal is recipient of Lions Gold Award 2008-09.
• CBSE and Maharashtra board has included Palak's achievement in text book of seventh standard moral science
• Palak Muchhal is recipient of Kelvinator Great Woman Achiever Award 2011.
• Palak Muchhal has also got Virangana Award 2011 by Virangna Lakshmibai Balidan Mela Samiti Gwalior.