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Surjit Singh, born on 1 July 1978 in village Chakshingar, district Vaishali, Bihar. He is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of News portal Lagatar Media, which was launched by him in October 2020.

Before becoming the editor, he did reporting for several years and had a great experience. He started his career in a weekly newspaper, Hazaribagh Times in Hazaribagh in 1997.

In 1999, he joined a Hindi daily, Prabhat Khabar, in Hazaribagh bureau office, where he worked for development, naxalite, terrorism and ground reporting. Within a year, he was promoted and posted in Prabhat Khabar, Ranchi. Here, he worked for crime, naxalite and corruption stories. He worked there for almost 18 years. From the experience gained in these many years, he got exposure to the expertise in print media.
In the year 2017, he left Prabhat Khabar and worked in an online bilingual news portal, Newswing.com, as its editor. In the short span of three years of consistent hard work, it gained a lot of significance and popularity in the state of Jharkhand.
At this time (2017-2019), almost all the print and electronic media surrendered in front of the ruling party. In those hard times, News wing published many series of stories pointing out the corruption in government and police atrocities. At that time, the main media houses in Jharkhand didn’t even dare to write anything opposing the government.

As per the survey of alexa.com in 2019, News wing was ranked at 16th position all over India in top Hindi news online portal. He was awarded for independent journalism award by Transparency International India in 2017 for his work in the field of journalism.

He left as editor of News wing in September 2020, due to professional reasons. In October 2020, He started his own News Media lagatar.in which he is serving as an editor-in-chief.