Shri G.P. Chopra enjoys the rare distinction of being a part of Hans Raj College from day of its birth to its golden jubilee celebration.
He began his teaching career as a lecturer in English at his alma mater, Murray College, Sialkot. Even in those days when teaching English alone, he was given honours and post-graduate classes to teach right in the beginning.

In 1948 , Shri G.P. Chopra joined Hans Raj College and has since been an integral part of this institution. In 1970, he was elevated as Principal of the College and worked in this capacity till 1985. His tenure as Principal saw the College scale new heights of academic excellence. The College also produced several distinguished sportsmen and artists. Shri G.P. Chopra also worked on an ambitious plan for the expansion of the College. Honours classes were started in Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry. Accordingly, new blocks were added to the College building to house laboratories. New courses in Computer Science and Personnel Management were also introduced. Staff quarters were built on a tract of land lying vacant between the College campus and the Principal’s residence. It was during Shri Chopra’s principalship that the College really matured.

Shri Chopra’s retirement from Hans Raj College in 1985 heralded the dawn of a new era in his life, for it led to a more productive and effective utilisation of his talents and as an educationist and administrative. He was the General Secretary of the DAV College Managing Committee from 1985 to 1992 and its President from 1992 to 1996, with a short gap of about four months. He has now been working as Vice-President as per past practice when a President steps down and proposes the name of another person for Presidentship. In the context of DAV institutions, Prof. Veda Vyasa’s tenure may be termed as a phrase of expansion. Shri.Chopra now aims at consolidation. He is also keen that the benefits of public school education percolate to the weaker sections of the society. Such children are now getting totally free education. Special handicapped children. Revolutionary and commendable steps indeed!

Indian heritage, rich as it is, has suffered on account of deplorable neglect on the part of short-sighted politicians and bureaucrats. It has been Shri Chopra’s constant endeavour to preserve and popularise it.

Shri Chopra has also been regularly delivering lectures on Swami Dayanand, Arya Samaj and the DAV movement in order to create awakening among the masses. Shri Chopra is a very effective speaker. His speeches are dotted with literary and mythological allusions and are enlivened by suitable anecdotes. His diction is chaste, his phrases chiselled, his delivery fluent. Listening to him is a great pleasure indeed.