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Talwandi Sabo Talwandi Sabo is a town and Municipal Council in Bathinda district, Punjab, India. It is famous for being one of the five Takhts of Sikhism (Sikh Religious Places), Takht Sri Damdama Sahib. It is also famous for its Baisakhi, which is celebrate ...

Bathinda district Bathinda district is in Malwa region of Punjab, India. The district encompasses an area of 3,385 square kilometers. By area, Bathinda district is the second-largest in Punjab, after Ludhiana District. It is bounded by Faridkot district and Mog ...

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Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

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Rural In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are descri ...

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Punjabi University Punjabi University is a collegiate state public university located in Patiala, Punjab, India. It was established on 30 April 1962 and is only the second university in the world to be named after a language, after Hebrew University of Israel. ...

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the '' Qila Mubarak'' (the 'Fortunate Castle') construct ...

, athletics_nickname = PUGKC , website = , logo = , logo_size = 100 Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus (PUGKC) is a regional centre of Punjabi University, located at

, India. Its main constituents are Yadavindra College of Engineering, University School of Business Studies and Punjabi University Guru Kashi College.

History

has named this campus ''Guru Kashi Campus'', as this land was blessed by 10th

Sikh Guru The Sikh gurus ( Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the found ...

Guru Gobind Singh as ''Hamari Kanshi'', a centre of higher learning in those times. Punjabi University Guru Kashi College is the oldest institute running in this campus, which was founded by Sant Fateh Singh in year 1964.

has taken over management control of this college on 20 December 1995 and later it was declared as a constituent college of university in 2001. University has established ''Guru Kashi Institute of Advanced Studies'' to run

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

/DCA courses in Guru Kashi Campus in September, 1988. Later, MCA and B.Tech. CSE courses were also added in this department in year 1998 and 2001 respectively. The department has been renamed as ''University School of Management''. The department also conducted

commerce Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...

and other computer courses such as PGDCA and M.Sc. (IT) along with three year off-campus MBA program. University had started a unique ''Ph.D. off-campus'' program in

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a Government agency, government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includ ...

from year 1998, but the course was discontinued in 2000 due to procedural lapses while introducing the course. University had also setup ''Guru Gobind Singh Institute of Information Technology'' in year 2001 through a private firm KCC Software Limited to offer various IT programs via distance education mode, which was later closed down.

has also established a degree level engineering college in year 2004 for providing subsidized education to rural students under Golden Hearts Scholarship. The already running MCA and B.Tech. CSE courses along with faculty and students were shifted to this newly created engineering institute and Management department has been renamed as ''University School of Business Studies''.

Religious connect

is place of

Takht Sri Damdama Sahib The Takht Sri Darbar Sahib Damdama Sahib, Fourth Takhts or Seat of Temporal Authority of Sikhism, Takht Sri Damdama Sahib is in Talwandi Sabo in Punjab, India and is the place where Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, prepared the fu ...

, one of the five Takhts or ''Seat of Temporal Authority'' of

Sikhism Sikhism (), also known as Sikhi ( pa, ਸਿੱਖੀ ', , from pa, ਸਿੱਖ, lit=disciple', 'seeker', or 'learner, translit=Sikh, label=none),''Sikhism'' (commonly known as ''Sikhī'') originated from the word ''Sikh'', which comes fro ...

has set up this campus to contributing towards fulfilling the vision of Guru Gobind Singh to see this place as ''Hamari Kashi''. The second objective in setting up this campus was the transformation of the educational scene in the heart of

Malwa region Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin. Geologically, the Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic upland north of the Vindhya Range. Politically and administratively, it is also syno ...

. The local people of

donated 85 acres of land to start this institute on persuasion by Sant Fateh Singh.

SGPC The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC; "Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee") is an organization in India responsible for the management of Gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship in states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the unio ...

has also sanctioned an annual grant of Rs.1 Lakh for a period of 10 years for this noble cause.

Campus

The campus is spread over 85 acres with high-rise buildings in lush-green and pollution free environment.

Location

The campus is located on the outskirts of

on Raman road. YCoE is 1 km away from Talwandi Sabo

Bus stand A bus stand, also called a bus bay, or bus stance, is a designated parking location where a bus or coach waits out of service between scheduled public transport services. 'Bus stand' is also often an alternative name for specific bus stops inside ...

and 26 km from

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda District. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth l ...

. The Nearest Railway Station is Raman (station code: RMN) at a distance of 14 km.

Infrastructure & facilities

University has provided all ultra modern facilities in this campus for benefit of students. * Central Library * Baba Deep Singh Boys Hostels (8- storey) * Baba Ajit Singh Hansali wale Girls Hostel * Staff Residential Flats * Dr.Avtar Singh Guest House *

Bhagat Puran Singh Bhagat Puran Singh (4 June 1904 – 5 August 1992) was an Indian writer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. As a young man he decided to dedicate his life to humanitarian work, and in 1947, he established Pingalwara, a home for the sick and ...

Health Centre * Canteen and Cafeteria * Construction and Maintenance department * Sports Stadium *

Plant nursery A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general p ...

* College transport

Notable people

The Alumni of Guru Kashi Campus have found success in a variety of diverse fields including cultural, political, social-service, public and private sectors. The list contains Alumni and former faculty members of the campus. *

Parminder Singh Dhindsa Parminder Singh Dhindsa is an Indian politician and belongs to the Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt) Political Party. He was a member of the Shiromani Akali Dal until late 2019. He is currently MLA from Lehra and was leader of Shiromani Akali Dal L ...

*Gurinder Sehmbey, CEO, StarAgri Finance Ltd. * Manjit Singh,https://in.linkedin.com/in/manjit-singh-90b625100 {{Self-published source, date=June 2022 State Head (Haryana), Jio

References

Punjabi University Education in Bathinda