Admin15 Feb 2014~Chandigarh: The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib organized a seminar on the subject of “Re-Kinetising Education” at Baba Makhan Shah Lubhana Auditorium during which ‘Sant Attar Singh Ji Knowledge Quest’ Finals were held. Akal Academy Balbehra students won after going through 30 rounds of selection amongst 250 participants coming from Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan […]
15 Feb 2014~Chandigarh: The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib organized a seminar on the subject of “Re-Kinetising Education” at Baba Makhan Shah Lubhana Auditorium during which ‘Sant Attar Singh Ji Knowledge Quest’ Finals were held. Akal Academy Balbehra students won after going through 30 rounds of selection amongst 250 participants coming from Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan making their way into the finals.
In the competition, Akal Academy ReethKheri got 2nd position; Govt. Senior Secondary School (Samrala) won 3rd position while Alpine School participants were honored with award of appreciation. Also during the event, in the speech competition, Akal Academy Muktsar’s student Sukhman Kaur won the 1st position & Aasra-Baraarh won 2nd position; the participating students, especially the winners received blessings from Trust’s chairman Baba Iqbal Singh Ji.
Special Guest Dr. Khem Singh Gill (Ex Vice-Chancellor, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana) & Vice-President, The Kalgidhar Society presented the awards. On the occasion, it was announced that the students who choose to continue their studies with Eternal University or Akal Academy shall receive discounts in form of scholarships & tuition fees. The organizers also expressed that the main objective of the initiative is to curb the increasing social evil of drugs addiction & to free the social environment through the medium of Anti-Addiction rallies & other strategic ways to create awareness amongst people.
At present, the Kalgidhar Trust, under its Rural Education Transformation initiative, is running 129 schools across 5 states from which 33 districts including 6450 villages are being benefitted; besides, the Trust is also running Eternal University, Akal Institute of Teacher Training & an acclaimed IB world school at Baru Sahib. The Trust is also coming up with its second university named Akal University “Guru-Ki-Kashi” at Damdama Sahib Talwandi Sabo, where the construction work is currently in full swing.