Professor Onkar Singh Dewal was born in 1931 in village Kumparawas district Jodhpur, and was educated at Jodhpur, Udaipur, Baroda and Birmingham (U.K.). He worked for the Government of Rajasthan, NCERT and CBSE. During his active years of service (1956-1991) he was a school teacher, lecturer, reader, professor and principal of RIE Ajmer. After his retirement in 1991 he worked as the Coordinator of Asian Programmes in Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada, as a consultant in NCTE, and as Hon. Advisor to the Director, NCERT.
Prof. Dewal was the Founder Director of Open School (1979-83). He provided consultancy to LIC of India and National Institute of Bank Management Bombay, during seventies. He was also the visiting fellow at Deakin University, Australia and an invited speaker at the University of London and International Extension College, London.
Prof. Dewal provided consultancy to and worked as resource person for UNESCO, UNPD, UNICEF and Commonwealth Secretariat London. His international travels included visits to U.K., Canada, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, China, Pakistan, U.A.E., Jamaica, Barbados, British Guyana and Trinidad.
