Sikhs of
Pakistan held a meeting at Gurdwara Nankana Sahib to
protest the Court’s verdict that goes against the freedom and safety of Jagjit
Kaur.
Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management extend their unwavering support to Sikhs of Pak and urge
Sikhs worldwide to raise the issue of oppression of minorities in Pak.
Prof.Dr.Simrit Kaur,Principal,SRCC,University of Delhi
Prof.Simrit Kaur with Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Minister Food Processing Industries.
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Dr. Simrit Kaur is the Principal of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi.Prior to joining SRCC, Prof. Kaur was with the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.
Nominated by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Dr. Kaur has been a ‘Visiting Professor’ at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and a ‘Visiting Scholar’ at Kingston University, London.
She has also participated in the International Teachers Program at the
Kellogg School of Business,Chicago.
Dr. Kaur has undertaken several research projects and acted as an
advisor to institutes and organizations such as the Ministry of Finance,
Government of India; the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises,
Government of India; the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER),
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) of the United Nations.
Her areas of interest include competition and productivity; climate
change and agricultural policy; and poverty and food security. In addition, she
has published and/or presented several papers at National and International
conferences.
Dr. Simrit Kaur’s book ‘Privatization and Public Regulation: The Indian Experience’, published by Macmillan received the Best Book Award.
Honoured by
the Business School Affairs, Dr. Kaur is a recipient of the ‘Best Professor in
Public Policy’Award.
Two of her papers titled ‘MOUs- Corporate Governance with Information Asymmetries’ and ‘NREGA and TPDS in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh: Complements or Substitutes?’ have also received the Best Research Paper Award by the Association of Indian Management School and the Indian Institute of Science respectively.
Being the Principal of the Best College in Commerce Education, Prof. Kaur has the experience and skills required for professional success and growth of an institute.
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https://www.srcc.edu/about-us/principal
Manjinder Singh Sirsa
,President,DSGMC made a plea today 13th August to Pakistan Prime minister,Imran Khan to take
action on humanitarian ground in favour of Sikhs of Pakistan and declare Court’s verdict on Jagjit Kaur
issue as defunct.
This one action would go a long way in restoring the faith of minorities and assuring them of their safety in Pakistan.
http://sikhsindia.blogspot.com/2020/08/marriage-declared-valid-pakistan-court.html
Simran Kaur
Wadhawan is the first Sikh girl, to join Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
as a Cadet. She was officially welcomed into the RAAF at a ceremony in Perth ,Australia.
Simran Kaur received a three-week Defence training to start with. She is now undertaking her studies at ADFA (in Canberra) for three years.
“I will At the end of that, I will work for RAAF in a leadership role and I’m really looking forward to it. My family and friends are so excited about this – many have called to congratulate me, asking me how I got to this point, and what my job will entail,” Simran told.
Simran is proud
to come this far and achieve her dream by following Sikh principles. She will
be representing the Sikh community in an area which is represented by very few
Sikh males and no other Female .
Her parents have
been supportive since the beginning. Her father helped her to build her
strengths and confidence, while her mother helped her with all the qualifications.
She was
also honoured by Sikh Gurdwara Perth for her outstanding
achievement of being first Sikh Girl to be directly selected for Australian
Defence Force Academy.
सिविल सेवाओं में सिख युवाओं का रूझान क्यों नहीं?
संघ लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा देश में हर वर्ष सिविल सेवा परीक्षा का
आयोजन किया जाता है। इस परीक्षा में देश भर से लाखो युवा हर वर्ष सम्मिलित होते
हैं। युवाओं में सबसे चाहत का विषय सिविल सेवाएँ ही हैं। परीक्षा पास करने वाले
युवाओं में भारत के अलग-अलग प्रदेशों बिहार, यू.पी.,
राजस्थान और पूर्वी और दक्षिणी प्रदेशों के नौजवान भारी गिनती
में शामिल होते हैं। लेकिन उत्तरी प्रदेशों हरियाणा और पंजाब के नौजवानों में इस
परीक्षा के प्रति कोई शांैक पैदा नहीं हुआ है। इसका कारण जानने के लिए किसी भी
संस्था ने कोशिश नहीं की है कि इन प्रदेशों के युवा सिविल सेवाओं में शामिल क्यों
नहीं हो रहे हैं।
सिख नौजवानों की गिनती नाम-मात्र
सिविल सेवाओं में हर वर्ग, हर धर्म के
नौजवान भारी गिनती में शामिल हो रहे हैं और इसमें सफलता भी हासिल कर रहे हैं। इस
बार के सिविल सेवाओं के रिजल्ट में यहाँ पर बहुसंख्यक वर्ग के युवा सफल हुए हैं
वहीं पर कश्मीर से मुस्लिम वर्ग के नौजवानों ने भी काफी गिनती में सफलता हासिल की
है। पिछले वर्ष भी कश्मीर से काफी युवा इस परीक्षा में सफल हुए थे। अगर बात करें
पंजाब प्रदेश की तो इस प्रदेश के सिख और पंजाबी नौजवानों की गिनती सिविल सेवा
परीक्षा में नाम-मात्र ही नजर आती है। सिख धर्म के बड़े-बड़े राजनीतिज्ञ स्टेजों से
तो शोर डालते रहते हैं कि हमारे साथ केन्द्र हमेशा धक्का करता है। नेताओं को समझना
चाहिए कि देश को राजनीतिक नहीं ब्लकि ब्यूरोक्रेटस चलाते हैं। जब तक हम अच्छे सिख
यां पंजाबी ब्यूरोक्रेटस तैयार करके नहीं भेजेंगे हमारे साथ यह धक्का होता ही
रहेगा।
आज केन्द्र सरकार ने यह परीक्षा पंजाबी भाषा में देने की सुविधा
भी नौजवानों को दी है। इसके बावजूद भी पंजाबी नौजवानों का इसके प्रति उदासीन रवैया
अपने आप में प्रश्नचिन्ह खड़ा करता है। सिक्खों की सबसे बड़ी धार्मिक कमेटियाँ
शिरोमणी गुरद्वारा प्रबंधक कमेटी और दिल्ली सिक्ख गुरद्वारा प्रबंधक कमेटी जिनका
वार्षिक बजट करोड़ों रूपये में है। बावजूद इसके इन कमेटियों के मुखियों द्वारा भी
कोई खास पहल नहीं की गई है जिससे बच्चों को सिविल परीक्षाओं में रुचि पैदा करवाई
जा सके। देश की राजधानी से संधू ब्रदर्स पंजाबी भाषा से सिविल सेवाओं की
परीक्षा पास कर चुके है और आई.ए.एस. तथा आई.पी.एस. बन चुके हैं।
एक अंदाजे के अनुसार अब तक पंजाबी भाषा में सिविल
सेवाओं की परीक्षा पास करने वाले नौजवानों की गिनती 10 के लगभग पहुँच चुकी है। सबसे पहले परीक्षा पास
करने वाले श्री वीरेन्द्र शर्मा जो आजकल लुधियाना के डिप्टी कमिशनर के ओहदे पर
बिराजमान है द्वारा पंजाबी भाषी नौजवानों के लिए रास्ता खोला गया था।
दशमेश अकादमी और पंजाबी हैल्पलाईन द्वारा
जागरूकता अभियान
नौजवानों को ज्यादा से ज्यादा गिनती में सिविल सेवाओं की परीक्षा
में शामिल होने के लिए दिल्ली की दो संस्थाएँ मुख्य रोल अदा कर रही हैं। इनमें
रामाकृष्ण पुरम सैक्टर 5 के गुरुद्वारा नानक दरबार में
चलाई जा रही दशमेश अकादमी है। इस अकादमी से जुड़े हुए लेडी हार्डि्रंग मैडीकल कालेज
के डॉ. हरमीत सिंह जिनका मुख्य जोर इस बात पर है कि नौजवानों को इस परीक्षा में
शामिल करवाया जाये। कोरोना काल से पहले इस गुरुद्वारे में सप्ताह के अंत में
शनिवार और रविवार को सिविल सेवाओं की कक्षाएँ लगाई जाती थी। इन कक्षाओं में भारत
के अलग-अलग प्रदेशों के नौजवान लडके-लड़कियाँ शामिल होते थे। छात्रों को यहाँ पर
नोटस दिये जाते थे वहीं पर उनके खान-पान का प्रबंध भी गुरुद्वारा साहिब द्वारा
किया जाता था। लेकिन इस केन्द्र तक भी सिक्ख और पंजाबी नौजवान नहीं पहुँच रहे हैं।
इस बात का अफसोस भी डॉ. हरमीत सिंह को है कि हमारे युवा क्यों नहीं पढने लिखने के
आगे आ रहे हैं।
दिल्ली में पंजाबी भाषा का झंडा बुलंद करने वाली एकमात्र संस्था पंजाबी हैल्पलाईन जिसकी स्थापना 2005 में की गई थी। संस्था का मुख्य लक्ष्य छात्रों को ज्यादा से ज्यादा गिनती में सी.बी.एस.ई. की बोर्ड परीक्षा में पंजाबी विषय लेने के लिए प्ररेणा देना था। संस्था के अध्यक्ष स. प्रकाश सिंह गिल अपने साथी अध्यापकों प्रिंसीपल एस.पी.सिंह, मैडम जसविंद्र कौर, महेन्द्रपाल मुंजाल, सुनील कुमार बेदी व कुलदीप सिंह के साथ पंजाबी अध्यापकों और छात्रों के बीच जाकर पंजाबी भाषा का प्रचार-प्रसार कर रहे हैं। आज इस संस्था के साथ सिर्फ दिल्ली ही नहीं बल्कि हरियाणा, पंजाब, चंडीगढ़, हिमाचल, राजस्थान और जहाँ-जहाँ पर छात्र पंजाबी भाषा पढ़ रहे हैं जुड़ चुके हैं।
स. प्रकाश सिंह गिल
जो स्वयं भी दिल्ली कमेटी के अंर्तगत चलाये जा रहे गुरु हरिकृष्ण पब्लिक स्कूल में
पंजाबी भाषा का शिक्षण संबंधी कार्य कर रहे हैं द्वारा दिल्ली के स्कूलों के
साथ-साथ कालेजों में जाकर काऊंसलिंग की जाती है और नौजवानों को इस बात की प्ररेणा
दी जाती है कि उनको सिविल सेवा की परीक्षा में शामिल होने के लिए आगे आना चाहिए।
स. गिल छात्रों को यह बात बताना नहीं भूलते कि अब छात्र पंजाबी भाषा और पंजाबी
माध्यम के साथ इस परीक्षा को पास कर सकते हैं। इस बारे में वह छात्रों को अपनी
संस्था पंजाबी हैल्पलाईन द्वारा तैयार की गई बुकलैट भी मुफ्त में देते हैं
कि छात्र संघ लोक सेवा आयोग की परीक्षा में शामिल होने के लिए आगे आयें। कालेजों
में काऊंसलिंग के दौरान अब तक जिन नौजवानों ने पंजाबी भाषा से परीक्षा पास करके
सफलता हासिल की है उनके बारे में बताना स. गिल नहीं भूलते हैं। अपनी तरफ से पंजाबी
हैल्पलाईन भी पूरी तरह से प्रयासगत है।
AAP suspends ex-MLA Jarnail Singh for his Facebook post where he disrespected Hindu Gods. anti-Hindu post, says 'no place for anyone who disrespects any religion'.decision to suspend him was taken during the meeting of the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee.
However, Jarnail Singh claimed the post was accidentally made by his younger son who was handling his phone during an online class.
Aam Aadmi Party is a secular party and has no place in the party of anyone who disrespects any religion,”the partysaid in its statement.“Sikh community is also very sad with their statement because such misfortune against any community is also against the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
Former chief parliamentary secretary Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of estranged former Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for loan waiver to farmers with less than five acre land holding.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu
In a letter
written to Modi, a copy of which was released to media on Wednesday, she said
that rising cost, dip in income and increased incidences of indebtedness among
small and marginal farmers manifested in spate of suicides over the year. “I
believe it is the responsibility of the Union government to waive farm loans,”
she wrote.
Sources here
feel the letter was Kaur’s attempt to break ice with the BJP top leadership and
mend ties. She further wrote that small farmers who had less than five acres of
land should also be given free power or subsidised power to give them more
access to the irrigation facilities.
After spending nearly a year at Dar-ul-Aman, Lahore,
Pakistan Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur alias Ayesha Bibi was allowed to go with her
Muslim husband Muhammad Hassan, leaving her family disappointed.
Her brother said they did not get justice. Jagjit Kaur, the daughter of a Nankana Sahib preacher, who was allegedly forced to embrace Islam and marry a Muslim man in August last year, told Lahore High Court that she did not want to go to back to her parental house.
After hearing arguments of both sides and in light of evidence regarding the girl’s age -- her puberty test and records of National Database and Registration Authority which certified her to be of 20 years old — Justice Shehram Sarwar Chaudhary ordered the girl to be sent with her husband after recording her statement to this effect.
"This is not
justice, we were not even allowed to meet Jagjit," said her brother
Manmohan Singh. He said they had pleaded for 5 minutes' time to talk to Jagjit,
but the court didn’t allow it.
Jagjit Kaur, daughter of Bhagwan Singh, a granthi at Gurdwara Tambu Sahib, Nankana Sahib, had embraced Islam in an Islamic seminary on August 28, 2019, and allegedly married her Muslim boyfriend Mohammad Hassan on the following day.
Her parents had filed a police complaint alleging that
Hassan had abducted Jagjit and forcibly married her after forcibly converting
her.
The conversion and marriage had caused uproar in the holy
city of Nankana Sahib, forcing the Pakistan Punjab governor Mohammad Sarwar to
intervene ahead of the opening of Kartarpur corridor. The husband’s family had
claimed that she had embraced Islam of her own accord.
In January 2020,
Mohammad Imran Ali Chishti, elder brother of Hassan, had led a group of Muslims
to storm Gurdwara Nankana Sahib and threatened to wipe out Sikhs from Nankana
Sahib. He was subsequently put behind bars.
Sultan said that Ayesha Bibi would be sent with Hassan
after Dar-ul-Aman receives the court’s orders. "Maybe Wednesday evening or
Thursday she will go to her husband’s house," he added
However, Manmohan said it could two days for Dar-ul-Aman
to get the court’s order. He said the family would raise the issue at the international
level to seek justice.
In his petitioner, Hassaan contended that his wife wanted to live with him so she should be allowed to go with him. Kaur of Nankana Sahib previously made a statement before the court that she married to the petitioner with her free will, after converting to Islam, and did not want to go back to her family. Kaur was given Muslim name Ayesha, before she married to the petitioner.
On Wednesday evening, family members of Jagjit Kaur along
with a handful of Sikhs of Nankana Sahib held a meeting at Gurudwara Nankana
Sahib to conside their next step following the HC directive in the case.
Manmohan said they would meet Pakistan Punjab’s governor Mohammed Sarwar to
seek his support, and if they did not get any support they would observe August
14, Pakistan’s Independence Day, as Black Day.
Bala Pritam Dispensary at Gurudwara Bangla Sahib to provide affordable
medicines to the Sangat, which will be started within a week.
DSGMC's General Secretary Harmeet Singh Kalka inspected Bala Pritam Dispensary at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib today 12th August .He confirmed that all documents required for opening the dispensary have been completed.within a week after completing the stock. Dispensary will be opened within a week after completing the stock .
Mr. Kalka said that with its launch, Sangat will get a lot of benefits and will also be able to avoid the exorbitant prices demanded by the medical stores for medicines.
He said that 20 to 25 per cent discount will be given on branded company's medicines and the profits ranging from 70 to 200 per cent on generic medicine taken by medical stores will be given to the people without any profit.Even if there is a demand for medicines which we do not have, every effort will be made to make them available to the community as well as surgical items will also be made available.
For the time being,it is going to start from Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. In the coming time, stores of Bala Pritam Dispensary will be opened in other Gurudwaras of Delhi too.
Along with Kalka, President of Takht Patna Sahib Jathedar Avtar Singh
Hit, Chairman of Guru Harikrishna Dispensary Gurdwara Bangla Sahib Bhupinder
Singh Bhullar, Committee members Vikram Singh Rohini, Saravjit Singh Virak were
also present on the occasion.
Satikar Committee Chief Balbir Singh Muchhal:Guru Granth Sahib Bir was taken away from Jaswant Singh’s house in village Bassi Jalal of Hoshiarpur giving a reason that the owner of the house was a meat eater.
A day after a team of Amritsar-based Siri Guru Granth Sahib Satikar Committee removed Bir of Guru Granth Sahib from the house of a former Khalsa College principal,Jaswant Singh (78), the Head of this Committee said that he is against Sikhs keeping the holy book at their homes.
Balbir Singh Muchhal, who heads Siri Guru Granth Sahib Satikar Committee, said: “If any Sikh wants to do path of Guru Granth Sahib then he or she can do it at a nearby gurdwara. There is no need of installing Guru Sahib at homes. It is almost impossible to follow all the decorum to install Guru Granth Sahib at home. So it is better that Sikhs stop this practice.”
Balbir Singh Muchhal, who is also the founder member this Satikar Committee which was among the first to be set up in Punjab, added: “I have been working with Satikar Committee for the last 25 years. We keep a check if anyone is causing disrespect to Guru Granth Sahib in anyway. Whenever we conduct some action, we inform the local police and administration in advance.
We were first to launch this Committee. Now there are countless committees across the state. We have found people keeping Guru Granth Sahib at places where Guru Sahib shouldn’t be. There is need for strict action to stop this disrespect caused to Guru Granth Sahib.”
Over the years,
many Satikar Committees have mushroomed not only in the state but also in
foreign countries. Such Committees often take police along with them during
self-styled raids, make videos.
Villages often have “marian” (place to remember ancestors) where Guru Granth Sahib remains installed. However, Satikar Committees do not approve this.
Muchhal defends such actions: “We have blessings and order from Guru Granth Sahib. Guru himself is taking seva from us. We have been implementing the code of conduct approved by Akal Takht.”
