Servants of the People Society (SOPS) (Hindi (ISO) : Lōka Sēvaka Maṇḍala ) is a non-profit social service organization founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent leader in the Indian Independence movement, in 1921 in Lahore.
[1] With an aim to create missionary social worker freedom fighter, Lala Lajpat Rai, founded the organisation in November 1921.
It was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi, and Lalaji who had donated his bungalow in Lahore to the organisation and his library of over 5000 books, remained its founding President till his death in 1928.
Its subsequent Presidents were Purushottam Das Tandon, Balwantrai Mehta, and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
The initiates pledged to serve the Society and were bound only by their word and sense of honor and of duty."