The journey from a small village to icy Antarctica in itself seems highly challenging but he was the first Turbaned Sikh to explore the high seas for research purposes. It aimed at creating leaders for education, environment and sustainability across the globe through a leadership and sustainability program called ‘Leadership on the Edge’. It also […]

The journey from a small village to icy Antarctica in itself seems highly challenging but he was the first Turbaned Sikh to explore the high seas for research purposes. It aimed at creating leaders for education, environment and sustainability across the globe through a leadership and sustainability program called ‘Leadership on the Edge’. It also aimed to identify potential sustainability leaders for a greener future.

Though a very few turbaned Sikhs could have had a chance to explore Antarctica that too for only tourism purposes, Bandanjot Singh of a small village, Handiaya was the first turbaned Sikh to head towards the South Pole as a member of an expedition. Twenty-eight old, Bandanjot, is among the 30 probably from 20 countries that had been selected for the hazardous expedition.

He devoted his energies to work for renewable and green energy initiatives in India to promote innovation and help rural India to achieve self-sustainable energy production.

Bandanjot is in the rural solar electrification projects and is associated with the leading educational institutes like IITs in electrification projects. Son of a general manager in BSNL, excited Bandanjot terms the power breakdown in the Northern grid in the recent past and Hurricane Sandy in US as the urgent points for him to explore to Antarctica as member of international Antarctic expedition(IAE) 2013. The expedition, he said aimed at creating leaders for education, environment with the theme of ‘Leadership on the edge’.

Having done the integrated course of B.Tech instrumentation and MSc Physics from BITS Pilani, Bandanjot, is presently working for a US company National Instruments. A fortunate meeting with Sir Robert Swan, who is the first person to walk both the north and the south pole made him work hard to be a part of the expedition.

As much as he conquered Antartica, he has surely conquered the attention of the Sikh Youth

Kudos to BandanJot Singh for making Sikhs proud! One of the potential Leaders of The Greener Future!

~ Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/