AMRITSAR, JULY 6
With a view to preserve and promote martial art `Gatka’, historic Khalsa College and Dubai based NGO, Sarbat Da Bhalla (SDB) today signed an MoU to start One year Diploma Course at College campus `free of cost’. The major portion of fee of students opting to adopt the course, starting from current academic session, would be sponsored by the SDB and remaining part to be born by College.
The aim of the academic program is to encourage traditional martial art which is otherwise vanishing. The MoU was signed by Principal of Khalsa College Dr.Mehal Singh and SDB Managing Trustee and a well known philanthropist SP Singh Oberio in presence of Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) honorary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina, who was the brain behind the whole move.
The Diploma would cover the one year academic and sports program and would be opened to students who have passed 10+2 examination and even degree students. Chhina said that it was historic day that such an initiative has been taken to promote the art that is being forgotten in the modern times. ``The art form Gatka has great religious and military significance in the Indian and Punjabi traditions. The Sikh Gurus took the martial practice to its zenith’’, said Chhina.
Mr.Oberoi said they wanted to help the students who want to study and practice Gatka. He said there are ample opportunities of career choice after completion of the course as the Gatka Instructors are in demand world over. Principal Dr.Mehal Singh said the new course is open for admissions students will be immensely benefitted from the Diploma course academically and in sports arena. He said so far only Nihangs’ (baptized martial Sikhs) are preserving the art.
``The martial art form is virtually getting extinct which is a matter of grave concern. This is an attempt to provide academic base to the traditional art’’, said Chhina adding that the KCGC is committed to preserve and promote the history and culture of Punjab.
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