Gurbachan Singh has forty years of experience in working in the field of school education, adult literacy and children’s literature. He is associated with ‘Children’s Literature Centre’, Madhya Pradesh since its inception in 1982. He has been a member of children’s book selection committee at State and National level constituted by Government of MP for OBB and NCERT, and was also a member of the advisory committee of National Book Trust, New Delhi. Since the last eight years he is associated with Azim Premji Foundation and presently a faculty at the Azim Premji University.