A small demonstration of a Great Turnaround is happening in Punjab, which was slinking towards a vortex of Drugs and Alcohol, leading to many magazines give an expiry date to its present generation. As the state moved away from its wealth of heritage spiritual values, the situation was aggravated by lack of education. Illiteracy has taken a heavy toll of the state and its is reflecting now in its rapidly declining socio-economic parameters. The Kalgidhar Society, Baru Sahib has been waging a lone battle by fighting Drugs with Books through its rural education chain of 129 schools. Bring out-of-school rural children into value-based schools, saves them from falling prey to Drugs and Alcohol. rather, they are brought into the mainstream to become the nation's assets. See the CHANGE Happen! Visit www.BaruSahib.org or https://www.facebook.com/BaruSahibHP

1. The Great Turnaround!
AllDOPEbut thereisHOPE!

2. “theland ofleonineand
brave people,where
everyfooton theground, islikea wallof
steel,
confrontingmy soldier”
~ Alexander The Great

3. 1870 ~ Punjab mosteducatedplace inworld
during Sikhempire
There is not a Gurdwara, mosque, a temple, that
had not a school attached to it
- Dr G.W. Leitner

4. 1914 - Bhai GhanaiyaInspires
Nurse EdithCavell

5. Incredible Threat!

6. Smack Baby
is a localcelebrity in Khanna
yrsold
2

7. He's just one of the many new
pre-teen substance abusers in
Punjab
Prince
yrs old
9

8. 75%
ofthe male youth....
& 33%
offemaleyouth....
Are drugaddicts

9. drug addicts trying
highit all for a

10. Soon
Punjab is

11. ~ Sikh Museum.com
1877 - Britisherswanted to convert
darbarsahibinto a church

13. Theorigin of this
disaster?

14. 1970
GreenRevolution...

15. literacyrate
1 1970
~ Planning Commission.nic.in
2015
st

16. Dropout rates
Class1st to10th
48.10%
~ Pujnabgovt.nic.in

17. th
~ According to DISE 2009 – 10 data
LearningOutcome
34

18. 4%ruralStudents
enrolled in professional courses
~ Planning Commission
Only

19. 25%
5.18%
1980
2014

20. 3,400schools added
35years
~ Statistical Abstracts of Punjab(Various issues).
Only
In last

21. 27,000posts are
vacant in PunjabSchools...

22. 20 lakhs
13 lakhs
In last35 years
In-schools students
dropped
~ Statistical Abstracts of Punjab(Various issues).

23. ~ Planning Commission

24. undera debt of
1Lakhcrore

25. ~ www.unp.co.in

27. Jobsdeclined
-5.47
~ www.unp.co.in
InLast 10 yrs
%

28. Factories
In last7years~ www.unp.co.in

29. Agricultural
33%
In 2004-05
22%
In 2012-13

30. Farmers
Committedsuicide
7
In last 10 years
~ Planning Commission

31. Illiteracy & Drugs
Are Inter linked

32. 69%ofRuralHousehold
do not haveasingle matriculate
67%Have at least
One Drug addict

33. REASONS FOR THIS
SOCIAL DECAY?
HAVE WE MOVED AWAY FROM
SPIRITUALITY & OUR CULTURE?

34. MISSION
CONCEPTULIZED
IN 1906
SANT ATTAR SINGH JI
MASTUANE WALE
1866-1927

35. DISCOVERED AND
FOUNDED
BARU SAHIB
SANT TEJA SINGH JI
M.A., LL,B. (Pb.) A.M. (Harward, U.S.A.)
1877-1965

36. KALGIDHAR TRUST
FOUNDED
1956

37. First School Started
1986

38. 2015
Valley of Divine Peace

39. Baba Iqbal Singh Ji
President
M.Sc., Former Director,
Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh
Padma Bhushan Dr. Khem Singh
Vice President
M.Sc., Ph.D. (California),
Former Vice-chancellor,
Punjab Agricultural University
REALISING THE VISION
of SANT ATTAR SINGH JI & SANT TEJA SINGH JI

40. NO VILLAGE
LEFT BEHIND
THIS IS A ‘RURAL TRANSFORMATION’
WARPUNJABCANNOT AFFORDTO lOSE!

41. TODAY a chain of
12960,000 STUDENTS
SCHOOLS

43. To cover all
12,278 Villages
through 500 Schools
Vision 2020

44. 1510
E-CLASSROOMS
LARGESTIN THE COUNTRY

48. 100% - 1st Division
64students - 10 CGPA
Aggregate 95.8%
Results

49. EDUCATE. ENSHRINE.
EMPOWER.
KEEP OUR NEXT
GENERATION AWAY
FROM DRUGS

61. 67
IIT - AIR

63. FIGHTING DRUGS
WITH BOOKS

64. Harjot
Singh
4 yrs old Harjot Singh
Inspired his family to become
Amitdhari

65. Nistha
Sharma

67. A student of Akal Academy
Cheema, Inspired her parents
to live harmoniously ending
up marital discord between
them.

68. Sehajveer Singh, orphan
Dadehar Sahib.

70. 1500Students admitted FREE
annually

75. THANKSTO ANTI-DRUG RALLIES BY
STUDENTS OF AKAL ACADEMIES

79. 127Villages in Punjab
opt to be Liquor-Free~ Thanks to these kids!

81. Let us Resolve to
Educate.Enshrine.Empowe
r our children

82. Let us Resolve to re-ignite the
flame of Glorious Punjab
Raising generations of
Educated Minds & Elevated Souls!