Guru Tegh Bahadur Academy : IAS/Civil Services Training Academy Exclusively For Sikh Students —First in India

DSGMC launches its IAS/Civil Services  training academy exclusively for Sikh  Students  — a first in India

Delhi  Sikh Gurdwara management committee has set up Guru Tegh  Bahadur Academy to provide free training to aspirant IAS/IPS central civil services Sikh students aimed at promoting exclusively  Sikh children's in civil services.

This will be first such institute to exclusively train rigorously   Sikh students for UPSC examination in the country.   

Manjinder Singh Sirsa President DSGMC said "Guru Tegh Bahadur Academy has been set up under the Chairmanship of  Mr.Vikram Sahni (Philanthropist and President World Punjabi Organization ) with an aim to  increase representation of the Sikh Community in the developmental process of the Nation."

Selected Sikh candidates will be sponsored to the prestigious  Pvt IAS/Civil Services training institutions in National Capital for providing coaching classes for civil services and  DSGMC will pay their fees and will also provide them with free boarding and lodging facilities in order to increase the participation of Sikh Community in governance.

All Sikh students who have passed civil services Preliminary examination are  automatically eligible for  intensive residential coaching and mentoring sponsored besides other talented and dedicated students by DSGMC .

DSGMC will also  provide free boarding lodging facilities round the year to Sikh Students in National Capital to facilitate the meritorious students to crack the prestigious examinations. 

DSGMC has  tied up  with prestigious IAS/Civil Services  coaching training centres in New Delhi where all such students will be sponsored for training and DSGMC will bear 85% expenditure of the fees of the coaching institutes for each student and  DSGMC will also bear 100% expenditure of the students from economically weaker section of the Society to enable them  to compete with the privileged sections.        

DSGMC has set up a five members Expert Committee headed by retired Sikh IAS/IPS officers to select  dedicated and intelligent Sikh students for sponsorship to provide wings to the dream of such meritorious students.

Training is likely to be started by the end of December 2020 and the process of inviting applications and counseling and selection of students is under process by the expert committee of retired IAS/IPS Sikh Officers.

The scheme will be a step towards placing future generations of Sikh Community into administrative services.  The whole idea is to bring out the talented youths from the Sikh community serve the country by joining the administrative services.

News Credit,
Mr.Sudeep Singh
Honorary Media Advisor
DSGMC

Dr. Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi