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Humanity’s great ambassador, patron of self-less service towards others and the founder of Sikh-Faith, Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s Prakash Utsav observed Grand celebrations at Village Bhadaur Akal Academy.

Like every year, the entire team, including students, teachers & other staff members came together in great spirits to celebrate this pious occasion in a grand way.

The dazzling ‘Pandal’, filled with lights and decorations, saw Prakash of ‘Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji’ at the centre. The grand event saw participation of village localites and also the parents of the students. The special invited guest for the occasion, Bhadaur’s Police Station Head Inspector Sanjiv Singla, also greeted the audience in a special way. Also present during the occasion were Baba Bhan Singh’s Sewadar Chamkaur Singh, Darshan Singh of ‘Gobind Body Builders’ and State Bank Of Patiala’s Assistant Manager Mr.Manoj Kumar.

During the event, the student’s showcased their Science Project Models that proved to be a major attraction for the audience’s. With the blessings and grace of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the students, with a really pleasant voice, sang ‘Dhan Dhan Jan Ayeya, Kal Taaran Guru Nanak Ayeya’, ‘Mitti Dhund Jag Chaanan Hova’ and other such Shabad with a great fervor and delighted the audience.

The resonance of shabads and Kavitas of ‘Nanak Mahima’, ‘Hum Guru Gobind Singh Ke Bachey’, ‘Ajj Guru Ka Langar Hai’, ‘Chim-Chim varsey Amrit-Dhara’, ‘Jo Kol hunda Nankana’ and others, filled the atmosphere with holy vibes; also, the audience much applauded the spectacular choreographies by the students, theme-titled  ‘Urha Te Jurha’, ‘Bandiye Tu’, ‘Nanaki Da Veer’ and ‘Roti’.

Further, the little artists sensitized the audience with their brilliantly performed Skit-Plays named ‘Virse Da Waris’ and ‘Pehlaan Rab Diya Saambh Sugataan’.

Towards the conclusion ceremony, the Chief Guest presented the Academic Achievers & Performing Participants with Trophies whilst lauding their hard work and splendid efforts during the celebrations. All the guests were honored with ‘Saropas’ by the Academy following which everyone enjoyed the exclusively prepared special ‘langar’ meal.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 20th Nov ’13

We take immense pleasure in sharing with you exciting news about the selection of 6 students of Akal Academy, village Dhotian; the players are now a part of the G. S. Academy’s under-12 Cricket Team in the upcoming “All India Games” that will be taking place at Hyderabad.

The aforesaid news comes in as a result of recent try-outs that were conducted by ‘All India Guru Gobind Singh Sports Council (Punjab)’ in association with ‘Siromani Committee’ & ‘Study Circle Sports Wing’, at Fatehgarh Sahib.

During the under-12 category cricket trial match, team G. S. Academy defeated Fatehgarh Sahib team by 31 runs, in which, all 6 of the Akal Academy Dhotian’s players, who played for the G. S. Academy team, gave significant & crucial performances to contribute to the team’s win.

For the team, Akal Academy’s Akashdeep Singh was selected as the Skipper(Captain) while Prabhdeep Singh(also from Akal Academy) played as vice-captain alongside Navbeer Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Gurpreet Singh & Akashdeep Singh(2), filling 6 positions for the G. S. Academy Team.

All 6 players of the Academy were selected to be a part of the under-12 G. S. Academy team during the selection process carried out by a Punjab Ranji player during the trial match at the PCA stadium (Mohali).

The players received a warm welcome upon their arrival at Dhotian Academy by the Principal Kuljeet Kaur alongside entire staff wherein the Principal presented the winners with their Medals. The selection process was initiated by Sport Wing in-charge, Principal S. Malvinder Singh.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 18th Nov ’13

The expedition to find Super Achievers Alumni of Akal Academies lead us to Dublin City of Ireland, where we found S. Paramveer Singh, 2005-06 Alumnus of Akal Academy Gomti, who is working as an Operational Engineer at ‘The NOW FACTORY’, an IBM company, which provides Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with customer analytics solutions that ensure network profitability and drive service innovation.

Paramveer, now 24, belongs to village Begpur, where he was born in a typical agrarian family, which subsequently diversified into auto-spare parts trading as an ancillary occupation to cope up with the agricultural slump. Paramveer, unlike his adaptive father, was never much interested into joining the family’s occupation at fields or the spares trade and luckily his father was supportive.

Param, who did his entire schooling from Akal Academy located at Village Gomti, told us that ever since his secondary years at school, he had developed a clear focus about becoming an IT – Engineer. He further told us that he feels lucky that both his parents were always supportive about his indifferent career plans & understood his independent nature; he obtained a decent 89% in 10^th & 85% in his 12^th Board Examinations, studying independently by focusing only upon his session classes at school.

“The studies & assistance provided by school teachers was enough, the environment was such  – that none of us students actually ever felt the need for any external tuitions. Upon my results, my parent’s confidence in me & my indifferent plans about career was further concreted”, he told us during a recent telephonic interview. He recalls & cherishes memories about his favorite school teachers – ‘Khan Sir’ & Mr. Ashok Kumar – Mr. Khan was his G.K. teacher and sports coach while Mr. Kumar taught him English & Social Studies.

After schooling, he took up AIEEE, IIT, UP-TECH examinations whilst taking upon his career interests for Engineering, upon which he came to know about Information & Communication Eng. Bachelor’s course being offered at Dublin City University in Ireland, upon which he applied for the same after clearing the IELTS examinations obtaining the required score in his very first attempt in Sept 2007; his application was accepted and then there was no looking back for him.

After completing his Bachelors he further pursued Masters in Telecommunications at the same university and took up an internship thereafter, in which he maintained company portals before he was finally picked up by the IBM owned Telecom Solution Provider Giant “The Now Factory” company, his present employer.

In his present profile of ‘Operational Engineer’, Paramveer is responsible for handling his company’s world clients like Vodafone & T-Mobile (US).

About life at his village – Paramveer told us that the situation at his village, especially on the context of education had more of less stabilized back then as the Akal Academy alongside another Khalsa School did pretty much the work required to bring awareness about education amongst village people. “I feel that Akal Academy did an exceptional job on that front; they are the only reason I or other kids at village learned about Sikhi Faith & Dharam – the difference between the good & bad, had it not been them, no one, including me would know or follow much of any religion”, expressed Paramveer, upon being asked the relevance and influence his school has had on his life.

His message for the youth and students back home at his village: “Jee lagaa ke parho, burey kamaan to door raho; Guru waley paasey logogey te sab aape hi theek rahega!”

– Ramandeep Singh
– New Delhi, 16th Nov ’13

Whilst celebrating the Day of Children, we bring to you the warmest of the greetings for this Season, hand-crafted by young kids from village Gomti, which will surely take you back to your days of childhood.

There is certainly no better expression of joy and way of conveying heart-warming wishes than a personally designed and hand crafted greeting card. Primary students of Akal Academy Gomti had sent us their wishes for the on-going season alongside a special photograph – wishing and offering the Greetings to the audience.

Here’s sharing those special innocent wishes and greetings with all of you; beautiful supporters of Baru Sahib.

The bouquet of greetings and wishes ranges from Diwali, Gur-Purav, Christmas & even New Year.  The children especially designed these beautifully hand-made greeting cards during a recent Greeting Card Making workshop; the students were told that best of their cards and greetings will be presented through to all of us staff members and our supporters through our official website and Facebook Fan page, you can clearly notice their exclusive innocent enthusiasm as they lined up for the picture.

No amount of happiness of this world matches up with seeing these little kids smile. Our team on behalf of these children and staff members of All Academies, wish you a pleasant festive season.

~ Ramandeep Singh
~  New Delhi, 15th Nov ’13

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Integrating latest teaching technologies that ensure enhanced interactivity, with effective, impactful learning and understanding amongst students, All Akal Academy classrooms have been turning into SMART E-Classroom, which make use of Interactive Board, Projector and Custom developed Digital content that is based on academic syllabus as per CBSE, making the class environment more interesting, motivating, encouraging and more absorptive for students.

Providing value-based quality oriented schooling to rural children of India remains the prime objective of the Akal Academies. Hence, upon understanding the subtle nature of village environment, especially the psychology of the rural kids and their non-generic learning interests, our organization- The Kalgidhar Trust, based on an in-depth research over years of on-field experience of working at grass root levels in the villages, identified that it requires a lot more than just good teachers.

For kids, where odds against schooling can arising out of number of diverse reasons, with most critical and subtle being lack of motivation, lack of interest in studies and attending school, etc which may carry several different reasons like – certain kids’ inability to understand teachers’ due to language/accent or other regional differences in speech, weak reading ability (esp. in case of new admissions), weak academic background, etc; the need to bring innovations & reforms in teaching techniques was not only crucial, but perhaps a very critical need of the situation in the villages.

Hence, in a record making transition, that has never been introduced or applied in village schools before, Akal Academies placed India’s biggest ever order of 1500+ SMART E-Classroom Interactive Systems with EDUCOMP INDIA, a world renowned pioneer in providing interactive and digital solutions for classroom teaching.

The solution has already been successfully implemented in most of the 129 Akal Academies which are operational, as a result of which, not only did the rate of absenteeism decreased substantially, but it has also helped bringing rural children to schools – the kids and the parents were observed being more enthusiastic about schooling, esp. kids who now know about schools as a place of learning with fun over the big screens where their favorite cartoon characters do the story-telling whilst teaching them alongside.

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– Ramandeep Singh
– New Delhi, 13th Nov ’13