Devotees take holy dip in Golden Temple sarovar on Baisakhi ANI | Updated: Apr 13, 2021 12:02 IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 13 (ANI): A large number of devotees paid a visit to Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar on Tuesday and took a holy dip in the sarovar on the occasion of Baisakhi, the harvest festival celebrated in Punjab.
On April 12, the Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh had called upon the people not to venture out of their homes to celebrate Baisakhi with the traditional fervour and gaiety but to stay at home, for their own safety and that of their children as well as the state and the nation.
Atam Academy is located on the New City College campus in Chadwell Heath The trust running a Redbridge academy school has accused Redbridge Council of “conspiring” with former staff in an attempt to dismantle it. Khalsa Academies Trust (KAT) runs Atam Academy in Chadwell Heath, plus schools in Wolverhampton and Buckinghamshire, and says the council wants the school to become independent of the wider trust. In February last year, council leader Cllr Jas Athwal joined parents protesting the suspension of the chair of governors, while an email from a council employee told a former school staff member they had “the local authority’s support” in their clash with trust leaders.
“We continue to believe that the energies of Khalsa Academies Trust are best directed to securing rapid improvement and demonstrating that they are an organisation that is fit to deliver the best educational outcomes for children and young people.”
Atam Academy has Ofsted’s highest Outstanding rating but, following a visit in November, inspector Mark Smith wrote to the school that its safeguarding is “not effective”, adding: “Trust leaders do not have a good enough grasp of safeguarding in the school… (and) rely too heavily on an external report.
“External reviews of safeguarding practice have been partially completed and an existing action plan is being updated. However… it is too soon to evaluate any impact of recent actions taken.”
Highlights
Khalistan means The Land of Khalsa i.e. a separate nation for the Khalsa or a separate nation for the Sikhs.
Khalsa was founded in the year 1699 by Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru of the Sikhs.
Khalsa means pure but over time, the idea was changed and it got politicised.
Amid the ongoing discussion about Khalistan in India, on Thursday we bring you the answers to questions like what is Khalistan and how its objectives are dangerous for India s national unity and integrity. Let us tell the history and current situation of Khalistan and also how the idea of Sikhistan took the form of Khalistan.