JIARM – Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary, a Global Society for multidisciplinary research publishes a scholarly, peer reviewed, monthly, open Access, online Research Journal every month. The December issue published a paper “Changing Lives through Social Innovation: a case study of Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib (Himachal Pradesh) India written by Dr. Pardeep Jain, […]

JIARM – Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary, a Global Society for multidisciplinary research publishes a scholarly, peer reviewed, monthly, open Access, online Research Journal every month. The December issue published a paper “Changing Lives through Social Innovation: a case study of Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib (Himachal Pradesh) India written by Dr. Pardeep Jain, Professor, Dept. of Management & Humanities, Sant longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India and Minakshi Garg, Research Scholar, Dept. of Management & Humanities, Santlongowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal Punjab, India

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY (JIARM) is an international double blinded referred and peer-review monthly online academic research journal in all the streams. The journal envisions is to create forum for review, reflection and discussion informed by the results of recent and ongoing research in every fields. JIARM encourages new ideas and works in all the fields and it publishes high quality original papers, theory-based empirical papers, review papers, case reports, conference reports/papers, technology reports, book reviews, commentaries, events and news.

ABSTRACT

Value based education is needed to empower citizens to become agents of change for better world societies. Value education is not simply the heart of education but also the education of heart as it inculcates sense of cooperation and fellow feeling among people. Value based education is the real need of the day to produce good upright human beings, who can inspire others to tread on the divine path and serve mankind selflessly. Values based education is the best way to enable society to move forward and bring about sustainable development in the world. Through such education, country will be able to harness the energyof the youth and persuade them to work for the betterment of the world now in turmoil. With increasing social evils like alcoholism, female-foeticide, drug abuse etc. the need of the houris to have a Drug free society and all mankind should be educated for a better living. For the same purpose Kalgidhar Trust is working in the direction of bringing back India’s glory by arresting drug abuse and female-foeticide. The Kalgidhar trust is working on the Sri Guru Nanak DevJi’s principles who reportedly said in 1499 that “it is a woman who keeps the race going” and that we should not “consider woman cursed and condemned, when from woman are born leaders and rulers.

The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib is an internationally acclaimed not for profit organization that works in the direction of providing Value-based Education in rural North India. Today, it runs a chain of 129 CBSE Eng Med Schools across 33 districts of five North Indian states, thereby benefitting around 60,000 rural students. It has become a trend-setter in bring a paradigm shift to addressing the cancerous drug-addiction issue through Value-based Education.

It is high time that the community understands the need to invest in ‘shrines of Education’ and social Development rather than just creating more and more religious shrines.

Read the Research Paper here: – http://www.barusahib.orgAssets/Publications/jiram_journal.pdf

~ Ramandeep Singh
~ 16th Dec ’13