AdminBaru Sahib also known as the Valley of Divine Peace located in Himachal Pradesh, India, is the land of meditation (tapobhoomi), of Sant Attar Singh Ji, Mastuane Wale (1866–1927), who, in the early twentieth century envisaged a place in the Himalayas from where young souls equipped with the amalgam of spiritual and modern scientific education […]
Baru Sahib also known as the Valley of Divine Peace located in Himachal Pradesh, India, is the land of meditation (tapobhoomi), of Sant Attar Singh Ji, Mastuane Wale (1866–1927), who, in the early twentieth century envisaged a place in the Himalayas from where young souls equipped with the amalgam of spiritual and modern scientific education will spread the message of universal brotherhood throughout the world.
Sant Teja Singh entrusted the responsibility of managing and developing the activities at Baru Sahib to Baba Iqbal Singh. The mud-hut housing Gurdwara was expanded, which over the years grew at an incredible pace to its present size. It is now an 11-storeyed building and has 1538 boys and girls on its rolls. Of these, 200 are overseas students; 100 from the US alone. 350 students are getting free education belonging to families of the survivors of 1984 carnage, children of martyrs of Punjab, children from underprivileged communities (Vanjara) in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and Nanak Panthis from Uttar Pradesh.
Besides the Akal Academy, The Kalgidhar Society manages an orphanage, an old age home, a home for widows and destitute women, a 280-bed charitable hospital, a music centre, a spiritual academy for women wherein 200 young girls are getting free training besides board and lodging. As a foray into Higher Education, the Society has started Eternal University which today runs 24 programs including B.Tech. and B.Sc Nursing. The Teachers Training centres impart free training to around 2000 girls from the under-privileged classes. They are later absorbed as Teachers in the Akal Academies.
Apart from Akal Academy Baru Sahib, The Kalgidhar Society manages 129 English medium Schools under pattern of CBSE in various parts of rural Northern India. In these academies, some 60,000 students are receiving quality education besides being groomed in spiritual education Gurmat. Inspired by these children, grown ups are renouncing vices and approximately five lakhs have turned over new leaves.
~ Daily Sikh Updates