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SANT BABA BHAG SINGH EDUCATIONAL
COMPLEX
 This
week on August 29, I have had an opportunity to
visit Sant Baba Bhag Singh Educational Complex at
village Khiala near Adampur (famous for an important
Indian Air Force base in northern India). Sant Baba
Bhag Singh Institute of Engineering & Technology
very kindly invited me to speak to the young
students of the Institute on any current and
relevant theme. On my own, I picked up ‘Emerging
India and its Challenges’ as the subject matter of
my lecture and interaction with my young audience
and members of the faculty and other guests. It was
an honour for me to speak at such a prestigious
Institution in the area. I only hope I could justice
and the lecture and following interaction was useful
and mutually benefiticial. I thank Prof. S.S. Saini,
Head of Department (ECE) and Prof. Mahesh Chander of
the Institute who facilitated my invitation to the
speaking engagement.
I was doubly privileged
to meet and interact with Sant Baba Malkiat Singh,
Patron and Sponsor of Sant Baba Bhag Singh
Educational Complex at the lecture. It was an
extended honour as I was told that he rarely come
for such functions. I found Sant Baba Malkiat Singh
an embodiment of humility. He is known as “Bridge
Baba” in the area for his tremendous work and
strides in doing bridges, roads and other
developmental projects in the rural areas in the
vicinity of his Dera without any governmental
involvement apart from his interest in providing for
excellent educational facilities at cost effective
basis and also free to the needy and economically
weaker sections of the society. I was also informed
that Sant Baba Malkiat Singh was equally engaged in
providing health care facilities at the grass root
level in the region. I salute to Baba Malkiat
Singhji and Sant Baba Bhag Singh Memorial Charitable
Society which doing excellent work under his
stewardship.  It
was a pleasure to meet some of the highly placed
members of the elite faculty and management of Sant
Baba Bhag Singh Educational Complex like Prof Hari
Singh, Prof. S.S. Saini, Prof. K.D. Mannan,
Principal S.P. Sharma, Lt. General (Retd.) J.S.
Dhillon and others. It was gratifying to note that
all these highly qualified personnel with
considerable experience at their back occupied
coveted positions in various institutes of higher
education in and around Punjab before their
retirement. They are now engaged with Baba Bhag
Singh Educational Complex not for material gains but
for service to the community. Prof. Mandeep Kaur, a
gracious lady, very ably conducted the proceeding of
the very well organized lecture. I was informed that
the Complex is likely to get the status a university
in the near future. I wish Sant Baba Malkiat Singh
and his associates all success and further
prosperity in the years to come. It was a rewarding
experience for me to be at the Complex.
An Article by Retired senior
Diplomat Mr. Ramesh Chander ji |
