SGPC to prepare Sikh students for govt exams

The SGPC has planned to open a centre that will provide coaching to ‘sabat surat’ Sikh students for competitive examinations. Besides, students of religious studies will be imparted graduate and postgraduate-level studies.

This was announced by SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur after holding a special interaction with Sikh intellectuals.

a plan was being mooted to open a centre dedicated to the upcoming 400th birth anniversary of Guru Teg Bahadur.

The centre will prepare Sikh youth for IAS, IPS and other competitive examinations. Many Sikh devotees have offered to contribute in the project. Similarly, religious institutions run by the SGPC for preparation of preachers and ‘raagis’ will be revamped. Students studying in these institutions will be imparted bachelor and master-level education besides religious studies

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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (or SGPC) is an organization in India responsible for the management of gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship in three states of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh and union territory of Chandigarh.

SGPC also administers Darbar Sahib in Amritsar.

The SGPC is governed by the chief minister of Punjab.

The SGPC manages the security, financial, facility maintenance and religious aspects of Gurdwaras as well as keeping archaeologically rare and sacred artifacts, including weapons, clothes, books and writings of the Sikh Gurus.

It was formed in 1920.

The first and the only woman and also incumbent President of SGPC is Jagir Kaur .