Despite facing hurdles in his tenure as a Forest Ranger, Pratap did not give up and never bowed down in front of anyone. He stood firm, due to which he had to retire before the end of his term.

Pratap Singh Jhala is a retired Forest Ranger from the Rajasthan Forest Services Department.

Pratap belongs to a village near Udaipur. He got his primary education from there itself. Then he came to Udaipur and completed his remaining schooling from BN School and then did his B.Sc from BN College itself. To get a good job in future, he gave competitive exams and got selected in Rajasthan Forest Services Department as a Forest Ranger. He says that in the initial five years, he got a lot of fame for his work. But later on the troubles came.

Pratap shares that being a part of a Rajput family, along with the educational atmosphere, there had been an environment of spiritual and cultural traditions in his house since beginning. Expressing dismay about today’s generation, he says that they are only walking on the path of modernity and technological progress, forgetting our moral values and that is disturbing for him. On the other hand, considering the bad experience of his tenure, he feels that it is good that today’s generation has no moral and ethical values as it is good in keeping pace with today’s era.

Talking about his struggles, Pratap says that many people created problems in his professional journey and made his path difficult to move on. He says that he has always been a principled man who takes his work seriously and works for the public interest but some sycophants of the department ruined his life by lodging several complaints against him due to which he got many transfers in his service period. Still he never gave up and despite getting transferred again and again, he stuck to his moral values and as a result, he finally lost his job after sixteen years of his service. Also, he got suspended for twenty long years and even his retirement was done in the suspension period itself.

About the Corona virus disease, Pratap believes that this disease is not as deadly as it has been shown as he feels that the government is only trying to scare people instead of spreading awareness about it. He believes that because of the government’s propaganda and lockdown, people came under mental stress and all the deaths that have happened till date in the name of Covid are all due to mental stress and not due to this disease. On the personal front, he says that he kept self discipline at home and stepped out of the house only when needed. Apart from this, he has been very interested in finding out the lapses in the history of Mewar, so during this time, he worked on that, read some literature books and also started writing.

If Pratap gets a Time Machine, he would like to go back to the time when Indian Vedic Sanatan Culture started to be destroyed which caused a great loss to human society over a period of time. He would like to prevent that damage from happening.

Pratap says that according to our scriptures, we all living beings are part of God and we are bound by some kind of Karmic bondage, on the basis of which we are born. So he advises today’s generation that in the pursuit of employment, you are moving towards modernity and it is very dangerous for our Indian Culture and society. If you have got birth, then God has definitely made arrangements for your food. So he tells them not to waste their present worrying about their tomorrow.