Breaking all Final targets on Day 3!

Students of Akal Academies across Northern India make us proud for more reasons than one. This time it’s keeping up with the set targets of 121 Sri Akhand Path Sahib, 121 Sehaj Path and 1 lakh Japji Sahib which they have not only been met but also exceeded them!

They have already crossed 1,26,000 Japji Sahib paths on the 3^rd day against the Final target of 1,00,000 Paths. And 346 Sehaj Paths in progress against a target of 121. Most of the Akhand Path Sahibs will begin tomorrow onwards. Delhi Sangat is also contributing in this Gurbani Lehar in a big way and we hope to have the figures on 17^th Dec. Similarly, USA Sangat too is supporting this wave of invoking
Almighty’s blessed intervention.

Thank you for the consistent support and blessings that are helping us reach milestones and set out further!

Mass Prayers by students of Akal Academies for Charhdi Kala of Khalsa Panth!

Khalsa Panth blessed by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj has been undergoing turmoil in the recent times. To invoke Akal Purakh’s blessings for Charhdi Kala of Khalsa Panth and to keep negative energies at bay and keeping in mind Guru’s bachan of “Jee ki birtha hoye, so Gur peh Ardaas kar”, students of Akal Academies run by The Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib will conduct the Samapti ceremony of:

121 Sri Akhand Path Sahib,
121 Sehaj Path and 
1 lakh Japji Sahib 

on Wednesday, 18^th of December.

Join us in the mass celebrations and keep up the good word for us!

A step forward by students of Akal Academies to invoke Akal Purakh’s blessings for the Charhdi Kala of Khalsa Panth by Mass Prayers!

Khalsa Panth has been blessed by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj and it has been undergoing turmoil in the recent times.

To invoke Akal Purakh’s blessings for Charhdi Kala of Khalsa Panth and to keep negative energies at bay and keeping in mind Guru’s bachan of “Jee ki birtha hoye, so Gur peh Ardaas kar”, students of Akal Academies run by The Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib will conduct the Samapti ceremony of:

121 Sri Akhand Path Sahib,
121 Sehaj Path and
1 Lakh Japji Sahib

on Wednesday, 18th of December

Here’s requesting you all to be a part of this Gurbani Lehar that follows the vaak of “Bani Guru, Guru hai Bani” and bless these little kids doing wonders for the Panth.

 Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!

Khalsa Panth blessed by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj has been undergoing turmoil in the recent times. To invoke Akal Purakh’s blessings for Charhdi Kala of Khalsa Panth and to keep negative energies at bay and keeping in mind Guru’s bachan of “Jee ki birtha hoye, so Gur peh Ardaas kar”, students of Akal Academies run by The Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib will conduct the Samapti ceremony of:

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!

This week’s super Alumni is a simpleton, Amrit Singh, student of Baru Sahib Akal Academy, is currently pursuing his professional C.A course in Patiala to prove to be a learned man in some time.

His journey is unique and blessed, not because he is a step away from being a professional, but because he belongs to typical agrarian society, from which Akal Purakh has upgraded his life – he credits his success to one and only one thing i.e. the blessing in disguise, that came to his life when his school had to be switched from Akal Academy Gomti to Akal Academy Baru Sahib. When he cited this, we were curious to know the reason, as in, all academies have similar teachers & teaching strategies, then what could possibly be so different he found there that he calls it a blessing in disguise…

Amrit Singh revealed – “ I was never a studious person, neither was I much interested in Academics previously, perhaps I only got an average 75% marks in 10^th examination at Akal Academy Gomti – the reason, I personally used to prioritize sports over academics – I was into Volley Ball, Cricket & even Football team, played several state level matches and even had a chance to play at National level; but then, the twist, that brought clarity and perseverance in my  life, on all ends…”

He further revealed, “Just as I began to wonder that why Almighty had made me shift to Baru Sahib Akal Academy – where I had to take up difficult routine of waking up early and going to Gurudwara sahib to recite Baani (Almighty’s Nitnem); just as this slowly was becoming a routine, all my questions and doubts were being answered and the result, not only did my percentage score jumped from 75% in 10^th to scoring 84% in 12^th examinations (which I could never do, if I imagine myself previously), but I received an unprecedented surge in focus and motivation in everything else too and yes that includes sports.”

Amrit Pal is the younger brother of Ajitpal Singh (our previous week’s super alumni, who is doing MBBS in Russia) – sons of blessed S. Harjit Singh, a petty farmer & his house-wife S. Simarjeet Kaur. Young Ajitpal grew up in a family that was always devoted to Almighty; his father, due to his natural affinity to God, developed close relations with Babaji and have been serving at Akal Academy alongside his farming since 1987.

The 2 brothers also have a sister, who also, by Almighty’s grace on their agrarian family, has received blessings of to be an MBBS, a professional; all 3 kids have had an unexplainable life upgrades – by God’s kind grace; we have talked to both brothers till now and have only been able to get just one simple understating & message, that brother Amrit Pal also repeated, “ there isn’t much that is there to explain but a simple understanding that I would like to share with everyone – “Maintain your Sikhi & especially ‘Savere/Amrit Vele (early morning) da Jaagna’ (habit of rising up early morning hours); these were the only two things that were different at Baru Sahib, rest books, teachers, strategies were all good and similar, perhaps the only things that makes the difference is – Waheguru; which Baru Sahib brought in.”

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~ Deeksha Singh
~ 5th Dec ’13

They took us to US, they took us to Dublin and we have lived through Australia too, this week, our heart is pounding in Russia – as we exchanged some heartwarming conversations with another son of Baru Sahib – one of the Akal Academies’ Greatest Super Achiever alumni, village Gomti’s proud Ajitpal Singh, who gave us time amidst his devoted MBBS pursuit to serve humanity as a Neurosurgeon Specialist.

Ajitpal Singh, who is currently at Russia’s Moscow-located, Tver State Medical Academy, striving at his best, is devoutly preparing himself to serve people back in India as soon as he receives his Doctorate title; for his belief, that he states to have learned has acquired from Baba Iqbal Singh Ji, Akal Academy and his Father motivating him to lead a life dedicated to service & welfare of the society.

Born to S. Harjit Singh, a petty farmer & his house-wife S. Simarjeet Kaur young Ajitpal grew up in a family that was always devoted to Almighty; his father, due to his natural affinity to God, developed close relations with Baba Iqbal Singh Ji and has been serving at Akal Academy with his farming since 1987.

From his days of childhood and at school, Ajit shared his affectionate memories of how his father induced love for Paath into him and how the similar environment at school helped nurture him into an individual he is today; he credits everything to his Dad and feels that it has been Sant Baba Iqbal Singh Ji’s blessings that invoked a unique confidence, aspiration and strength into him. “My father taught me Paath a lot early… I memorized all the Banis at a young age and I still follow my Paath regime”, revealed Ajit.

He did his schooling until 8^th at Akal Academy Gomti, after which he took transfer to Akal Academy Baru Sahib by his own choice upon receiving insightful inspiration from his teacher Mr. Naresh, who was the reason for Ajitpal discovering his interest in medical science during a biology practical class where Ajitpal found his fascination upon experimenting with doing blood tests – “One day he taught us how to find blood groups in the bio lab… when I went to city few days after , I bought antiserums from a doctor, then I performed this at home”, revealed Ajitpal. He cleared his 12^th at Baru Sahib with 80% marks and a smashing 90’s both in chemistry & biology.

In the family, Ajitpal is not the only son; he has a younger sister (also an Akal Academy Alumni), who is also doing medical currently to later pursue MBBS, and also a brother, who again is doing a professional C.A course. “Few years after we will be professionals, by Waheguru’s Mehar”, cited Ajitpal in reverence to Almighty’s Grace.

Towards conclusion, upon being asked what he learned or has anything he wishes to share with everyone, especially parents & students back at village, Ajitpal told us, “Akal Academies taught us to serve. That is what I have learnt and will follow all my life!” He further added that his biggest strength comes from a simple understanding that his father passed onto him & he feels like sharing the same with everyone – “First , don’t forget your Sikhi, maintain your Sikhi Saroop; Second, make Paath a part of your life and third, help everyone! These were the words my father told me when I was leaving for Russia.” Gurfateh!

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 27th Nov ’13

Akal Academies, as a critical part of their ‘Rural Transformation’ mission, pay a prioritized attentiontowards identifying special admission cases for under-Privileged / Rural children, who have critical need for financial assistance; this is done in parallel with our education awareness drives, with help of local volunteers,covering nook & corner in vicinity (as much as 40kms) of each of its 129 Akal Academies covering around 6450 villages.

The team actively identifies & creates a list of all such cases requiring Free or Sponsored Education during itsAwareness Drive. All Academies admit 10 students from the rural poor so that ‘out of school’ children are brought into the mainstream. In 2013, around 1300 students across all operational Akal Academies, benefitted through Free/Sponsored Education Projects of the Trust. And the Trust commits itself to support these children for 14 years ie. upto Class-XII.

The Trust is striving to support several such children to the best possible extent of its capacity, yet our contribution alone remains confined to serving only a small fraction as the expanse of poverty is large in these regions.

For the aforementioned purpose, The Kalgidhar Trust, alongside its Education Awareness Campaigns in the villages, has additionally paired a unique ‘DeedADay’ child sponsorship Project as an initiative to significantly increase sponsored education enrollments.

An authentication team checks for validation of the identified cases through necessary Govt. documentation& family/house site surveys before the candidatesare enlisted for seeking sponsorship.

‘DeedADay’, a strategically designed ancillary project from the organization, aims to draw education sponsorship support for children of impoverished & under-privileged families, who are deprived of education by offering a unique online platform website DeedADay.in, where volunteers & sponsors from any part of the world can directly select to help & connect to Rural / under privileged children in India who are seeking education sponsorship by simply selecting a child from a real-time roster of kids awaiting sponsorships.

The roster is publicly visible to anyone just on the home page of the website, it further provides all relevant information about the child like family background, age, current academic status alongside amount required for sponsorship etc; so as to assist the sponsor make his selection. Once sponsored, the child’s annual report alongside performance mark-sheet is also made visible to the sponsor regularly, plus the sponsor gets a chance to visit the child at the village anytime he wishes.

The KalgidharTrust, Baru Sahib serves all children, regardless of religion, race, creed, ethnicity, or gender with a special focus on promoting education for girl child.All sponsored children are provided holistic schooling with Value-Based education at the Schools run by the charitable organization The Kalgidhar Trust / Society, having modern infrastructure & facilities like e-classrooms, R.O drinking water, and internet enabled computer labs, library etc& other modern facilities at par with any top private schools in cities.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 25th Nov ’13

Another exquisite feature of Akal Academies that makes us stand distinct amongst other schools, is that all of the Akal Academies have always followed a record trend of absolutely ‘No-Outside-Tuitions’ for any of our students.

“The culture is known to be followed like a religion by all our students, our students of Akal Academies do not know much or are unaware about the concept of tuitions, that is usually prevalent is trending amongst most public and city schools”, cited an experienced senior teacher, who has been serving Akal Academies since a decade.

The exclusive feature, which is supposedly unique or at least rarely amongst schools, especially in the current generation, is being devoutly adhered ever since the inception of Akal Academies – a culture being maintained all through our 27 glorious years.

Though most of the staff members of the organization know about the prevalence of this culture, but our young team of city-kids who managed to get through schools only through riding the expensive tuitions ferry, were highly intrigued to know and understand how this was possible and how the concept has managed to flourish across all academies at all times in parallel.

Upon some pleasantly intrusive keen investigations involving enquiring interviews, which were warmly welcomed, we learned the secret behind – the reason for no student is subscribing to the tradition of taking tuitions or even feeling the need for it and the reason was both stunning & commendable.

Surprisingly, the responsibility of support and guidance beyond schooling hours is fulfilled by the Academic staff – the Teachers themselves, and that too voluntarily and free of any kind of charges, within the school itself, even if it has to be working beyond the stipulated hours. This way the teachers always ensure there is no need for students to look for expensive tuitions, external help or guidance; they believe that course text books alongside focused training is sufficient to crack even through board examinations with flying colors.

This practice was conceptualized to address the concerns of rural and under-privileged students and their families, for whom affording tuitions was not even remotely possible, hence the concept was consciously designed – which has been successfully been observing its universal application across all Akal Academies, ever since.

So tuitions, totally free of charge, are in fact happening regularly within the school premises; primarily seeking to serve the purpose of addressing one-on-one needs of individual students, typically the-private-teachers-way in the cities do in the form of home tuitions; the process and the concept, perhaps, just evolved in a philanthropic and fantastic way for the rural folks!

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ New Delhi, 19th Nov ’13